GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

United Press Association. —By Electri* Telegraph.—Copyright.) LEVEL CROSSING SMASH. LONDON, August 17. The North-Western express from Cambridge to King’s Cross collided with a motor lorry at a level crossing at Sheperth. The engine and all the coaches were flung across the line with a terrific crash. The fireman and the lorry driver were killed and six others seriously injured. BYE-ELECTION RESULT. LONDON, August 17. The North Aberdeen bye-election, fol. lowing the death of the Labourite, F. H. Rose, resulted: Wedgewood Benn (Labour) ... 10,646 Dr Laura Sandeman (Conservative) 4,696 Ferguson (Communist) 2,(^ Rutherford (Liberal) 2,3. L COMMERCIAL. LONDON, August 17. Gold is £4 4s llid per oz. SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION. RARE DISCOVERY. PEKING, August 17. A six-million-year-old skeleton of thebiggest mammal ever in existence, 25 feet high, 25 feet long, and weighing: between fifteen and twenty tons, is: among the important discoveries an--nouced to-day by the America Central’ Asiatic expedition, which lias just returned to Peking from a three-months” exploration trip through inner Mongolia. Other finds included duck-billed' dinosaur, a giant iguano, measuring a hundred feet, and a huge mastodon, with a six-foot jaw, with teeth as big as a shovel. Dr Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the expedition, who holds the theory that the Central Asiatic plateau was. the cradle of the human race, had hoped to find traces of the so-called pre-dawn man, which he believed existed there two million years ago. He was unsuccessful. He did, however, find important evidences of stone age cultuie, similar to those found in France and in Scandinavia.

- BRITISH NAVAL LOSSES. LONDON. Aug. 18. The “Daily News’s” Moscow correspondent reports that M. Muklevitch declares that Britain, without any declaration of war, attacked the Soviet in 1919, sank four of its ships, and bombarded its forts, in attempts to destroy tlio revolution. Ho claims the Russians sank thirteen British warships, including the cruiser “Cassandra.” , . 4 The British Admiralty has issued - a#* statement that the submarine “L. 55” and two destroyers were the only warships lost in the Balt.io in .1919. The Admiralty suggested that a British warship should fetch L.ss’s crew s remains, but the Soviet did not reply.

ANGLICAN PRIMACY. LONDON, August 18. Declaring tlie Archbishop of York’s appointment to succeed the Archbishop of Canterbury, nullifies the House of Commons’ and the nations’ rejection of the Revised Prayer Book, the League of Loyal Churchmen and Protestant Alliance, also the Low-' Church bodies prominently opiwsed to tlie Prayer Book, are petitioning the King to withdraw liis consent to tlie appointment of Dr Cosmo Lang to Canterbury from York. They allege that the Archbishop of York is generally regarded “as the real head, of the party which recently nil- <*+ successfully attempted to subvert' Protestantism under tlio cloak of the revision of tlie Prayer Book, and, therefore, . it is impossible to believe that! ho will faithfully administer the laws and refrain from abusing his in order to promote a revival of Romaoism.” LORD HALDANE ILL. (Received this day at 8 n.m.) LONDON, August 18. Lord Haldane is dangerously ill. ■ r LORD HALDANE DEAD. LONDON, August 19. Obituary.—Lord Haldane.