GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

Australian Pross Assn.—United Service REAR-ADMIRAL’S DEATH. CAPETOWN, August 2. Rear-Admiral Blunt died at Kenya of blackwnter fever. SIBERIAN FLOODS. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) SHANGHAI, August 2. A telegram from Siberia states Amur river district is seriously flooded and forty villages surrounding Blngovestcliensk have been washed out, and portion of the city itself is badly inundated. 7,ova River basin, a tributary of Amur, is completely under water and the population is rapidly evacuating. Upwards of ten thousand are already homeless. The flood is the worst since 1898. Harbnrovsk, Nikolaievsk and the whole of the lower Amur district are menaced. The damage is already estimated at five million roubles. PIG TAIL TO GO. PEKING, August 2. The Mayor of Hochichung has issued orders that within three weeks the pigtails of male Chinese must be severed and women under thirty must bob their hair and cease binding their feet. Offenders will be fined. FEARS IN MEXICO. (United Service.) (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2. Americans hero fear a reign oi blood, with terrible reprisals, before the Obregon assassination is expiated. The Attorney-General, Nito, in a formal statement, asserts that Jose Toral belonged to an organisation led by Abbess Maria conception. “I am convinced,” declares Nito “that his group of individuals who directly and indirectly participated in Obregon’s murder belonged to a Terrorist organisation headed by none other than Abbess Maria, an intelligent woman, who has been trying to mislead justice. This organisation resembles Russian Nihilists and the same Italian associations formed to attempt the life of Mussolini.