GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

STEAMERS COLLIDE. Australian Press Assn.—United Service HAMBURG, Sept. 10. AVlien the British steamer Cormvood rammed the German passenger paddle steamer Koeningin Louise, in the Elbe, near Blankness, last night, the electric light on ihe Koeningin Louise was extinguished and water rushed to the engine-room. A panic ensued, and many passengers jumped overboard, but the presence of min'd of the British captain prevented a catastrophe.

The Coniwood’s bow rammed tho Gorman amidships just behind tho wheel box. The British vessel continued to push the German to tho river bank so she could not sink. Eye witnesses said tho accident was the fault of the German captain. The paddle steamer was unable to land her passen-' j£ors .at ElaiLkness pier and continued up river and then went backwards. Hie Cormvood suddenly appeared this manoeuvre giving warning Apparently, however, these were noticed by the German captain, who continued backwards. Thus a collision was unavoidable. .Three are believed to have been drowned. • CHANNEL SWIM. LONDON, Sept. 10. E. H. Temmo and H. Carey failed to swim from Dover to Calais, for with a Dover Gold Cup prize has been offered Temme was in tho water for eight hours, while Carey remained in for fourteen hours. VIENNA TRAIN SMASH.. SEVENTEEN ALREADY DEAD ; VIENNA, Sept. 11.

There was a terrible collision at Lunderburg where the Belles-Vienna express, at great speed, crashed into a goods train which was on tho wrong siding. Seventeen bodies have already been recovered chiefly from . the first express coaches, which .was smashed to pieces. Twenty-five were seriously injured, and many more suffered minor injuries.

FRENCH MINISTER’S DEATH. [“ Tho Times ” Service.'! LONDON, Setpember TO. The.“ Times’s ” Paris correspondent states that the inquiry into the Toul air disaster oil September 2, reveals that the late 51. Bokanowski (Cabinet Minister) arrived at the aerodrome later than expected,, and was eager to reach ■ his destination. Accordingly, Pilot Hanin was ordered to leave without.warming up the engine. The ex- ' ports are of opinion that when Hailin',,.' discovered the engine was not working properly, instead of making a , forced landing in the direction he was then flying, and taking a minor risk of a collision with a tree or other obstacle, he made the fatal mistake of attempting to return to the aerodrome which was impossible at the Tow speed attained.

WIDESPREAD SECRET ACTIVITIES LONDON,-September 10. The “Daily Chronicle” says: Russia is suffering an epidemic of secret societies, and the Bolshevist dictators are now fighting hard against a widespread revolt of the youth against the Soviet regime. This fact is disclosed by an official statement in the Bolshevist newspapers, which assert that tho higher schools and the universities arc the hot beds of an anti-Boishevist conspiracy'. The Central Government is seriously alarmed by the ' failure to create a second generation of Communists in Russia. Many were recently arrested in Archangel. Secret newspapers havc.been discovered in sucli centres as Odessa, violent anti-Bolshevist articles. Tho "*5 official opinion is also disturbed by the , fact that tho \\Wks of Lenin aro scarcely read in the public libraries in Russia. “ Russia’s youth is in revolt,” concludes an official statement.

RADIO PICTURES. BROADCASTING IN ENGLAND. LONDON, September 10. Fashion photographs from London, Vienna, Paris and Madrid, photograph of the finishes of important races, illustrations of children’s stories and snapshots of missing and wanted people from Scotland Yard are among the British Broadcasting Corporation picture broadcasts for next month, as mentioned in our official wireless message on Sunday. The listeners will hear the announcer say: “We are going to broadcast a picture of thb big fire in London to-night.” The listener then merely disconnects ■ the loud speaker and connects up with the Fultograpli, a small box, costing £ls, with a revolving cylinder'over which travels lengths of sensitised paper. A platinum-tipped needle traverses this paper while, line by line, and dot by dot, a picture five inches by four appears, completed, within three and a half minutes, and it may then ho torn off the roll.

AUSTRIAN TRAIN WRECK. VIENNA, September 12.

There are twenty-four dead as the result off the Lundenburg accident, including eight still under the wreckage, and eighty-three injured. Three are not expected to recover. Averesou, tlie Roumanian statesman, had a narrow escape. He loft the wrecked car for the dining car a minute before the disaster.

EMPIRE PARLIAMENTARIANS. cßertived this day at 9.30 a.m.) VANCOUVER, September 11. 1

The Empire Parliamentarians arrived at Vancouver this morning, ombarking immediately for Victoria Land. Lord Peel discussing immigration, declared that England did not want the dominions to accept unemployables. He saw no great trek of Britishers to Canada. There was no need for hurrying the growth of Canada. . A hundred years from now the Empire would be at the outset of its career. Canada would then bo the most important unit. Ho expected great' good to come from the Empiro .marketing body, but saw no prospect of changes in British tariff preferences. THE NA v AL AGREEMENT. LONDON, September 9. The Daily Express in a leading article entitled “A lesson to Diplomatists,” insists that the Anglo-French Naval agreement is doomed, and. is “trembling on tho edge of an upwept, unhonoured grave,” because British public opinion apposes it. The Express says: “Nowadays tho .people count for more than the Government Foreign Secretaries in 1928; , cannot commit the country to an external undertaking without consulting public and Parliamentary '.opinion. Before Britilin will accept such a commitment, the cards must bo laid on tho tabid, and tho jioople made cognizant with every more.” / PARIS, September 10/

The Paris “Le Gaulois” asks: "Why the Anglo-French agreement sliould he transformed into a document of discord on the United States’s sole injunction.