GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

A BOMB EXPLOSION. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). BERLIN, Sept. 1. .A mysterious bomb explosion occurred at 3,23 a.m. in a cellar in the Reichstag. It is believed the .perpetrators are. the same as directed the recent bombing at Hanover, Schleswtgholstein. : : JAPANESE RECONSTRUCTION. TOKYO, Sept. 1. The approaching completion of the great task of reconstruction of thcj midday city was observed by one minute silence in memory of the disaster of 1923. the intoning of thousands of Buddhist priests briefly substituting mucus traffic noises. A Maybral message following the example of the. Government urged citizens to refrain from extravagance and to work hard. SLEEPING SICKNESS. TOKIO, Sept. 1. Sleeping sickness is spreading. Cases are reported five hundred miles westward. To-day the oases north of Toluo to Nikko total 241/ with 91 deaths. N.Z. GOVERNOR GENERAL. KEN WORTHY NOT APPROACHED. (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, September 1. It is learned authoritatively ,om Geneva tfiat Premier MacDonald has not approached' Commander Kenworthy or any one else with a view of the appiontment of Governor Genera o N. Z.. Those well informed make th interesting suggestion that if Kenworthv does not go to Moscow he might he appointed British' Ambassador at Washington.