GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

CINEMA DISASTER

IN RUSSIAN TOWN

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON. Nov. 12

“The Times” Riga correspondent reports that fire demolished a building at Yoroness during a children’s cinema seance. The operators jumped from the windows. A number of children perished. and many charred bodies wore recovered. There were tragic scenes around the doorway, at which distracted parents outside fought to enter to rescue the children, thus blocking the latter’s egress. The fire brigade arrived late.

LORD BIRKENHEAD. LONDON, Nov. 11. Lord Birkenhead joins the Board of the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company, a powerful gold diamond and platinum mining concern.

THE NEW PR EM 1 KB. BUCHAREST, Nov. 11

Alanitt wa.s cheered with the wildest enthusiasm after the formation -of the .Ministry. Tie is regarded as the liberator of the country from ;t regime of dictatorship. Alanitt receiving pressmen, voluntarily promised the immediate removal of the censorship, an unfettered election in December, a continuity of his foreign policy and an early revision of the tariff, retaining only essential dates.

THE PRAYER BOOK

LONDON. November 12

The Church Assembly agreed to the publication of the 1928 prayer book prefaced by a note dealing with the book’s history and position, explicitly stating the publication neither directly nor indirectly implies authorisation for church use. The Archbishop of York explained the publication was due t<> the hook still exciting general interest and must always, especially interest the students of the church’s history. Therefore it ought to he accessible.

SHOOTING HONOURS. LONDON, November 12

Honorary Lieutenant J. Hutchinson of the Australian Instructional Corps, '••on the King’s Aledal Clasp 1928 lor champion shot. Lance-Corporal S. MHornet, First Wellington Regiment, won the medal for New Zealand.

SOVIET STKAAIER SINKS

FORTY PERSONS DROWNED

(Received this day at 10.30. a.til.) BUCHAREST, Nov. 11. The Soviet steamer, Kornoemore. surang a hulk in the Black Sea and sank. Forty person's were drowned. Only one lifeboat was launched.

WORST SINCE 1669,

PROFESSOR’S. DISMAL STATEMENT

(Received this dav at 10.30. a.m.) ROME, Nov. 12.

Professor Ponte estimates Etna has vet to disgorge twice as much lava as has hitherto swept tho country. He regards the disaster as the worst since 1669, when it lasted nearly a year.

Xunzirta is now blotted out. A feature of tho eruption is its electrical nature. On Saturday terrific explosions occurred among clouds of cinders, followed by whirl winds.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. LONDON, Nov. 12.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has taken the title of Baron Davidson of Lambeth.

Lords Harris and Stamfordhnni introduce him to the House of Lords on Wednesday.

CHINESE BIRTHDAY

(Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) PEKING, Nov. 12.

The anniversary ol Sun Aat Sen s birthday which was recently added to tlm rapidly growing list of Chinese national holidays, was celebrated with a. display of official enthusiasm here to-day, when tho city was decked with Kuomintang colours and a croud of about six thousand attended an open air meeting at which inspiring speeches were made by Kuomintang leaders. Despite strenuous efforts ol Kuomintang propaganda experts, no great amount of popular fervour was noticeable for which 'the prevailing business depression and unusually cold weather were probably jointly responsible. Thousands who heretofore lived fairly comfortably have been reduced almost to pauperism as a result of the transfer of the capital to Nanking, and they arc now largely preoccupied with the problem of scraping somehow through what threatens to ho an exceedingly hard winter for the bulk of the population.