GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

SHIP IN DISTRESS

lUnited Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) MADRID, Dec. 26. Pockets from' the coal laden steamer Aslaud from Ireland apprised gendarmes at Bayomv that the vessel was drifting uncontrolled towards the shore. Three boats put out but tlie rocks prevented them from approaching the ship. Tire cries from the seamen in the darkness indicated the vessel had struck and subsequently corpses, which were much battered cn the rocks were washed ashore. POSTAL PLANE CRASHES. ATHENS, Dee. 20. An Italian postal plane -.-a frying five, including Commander Roso from Constantinople on its way to Rome, crashed near Sain iKustaios Island in the early morning. A steamer and seaplanes are searching for possible survivors. M. RRIAND’S REFLECTION. PARIS, December 27. “It is easier to make the nations listen to trumpet calls than words of peace,” declared M. Briand in defending the Locarno policy in the Chamber. The policy of peace was not impressive enough and engendered anxiety. EXILE’S RETURN. PARIS, Dec. 27. M. Leon Dnudet, who was exiled to Belgium for three years, will celebrate the New Year at his Paris home. The Tardieu Government has granted him an amnesty on his sentence for criminal libel and his escape from gaol in June, 1927. SIR JAMES PARR. (Received this day at 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, December 27. Sir James Parr has gone to Egypt for three months. VESSELS COLLIDE. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, December 27. At least fifteen were drowned in the Sea of Marmora in a collision at midnight on December 22nd, between a Greek vessel and the Bulgarian steamer Vaina, the crew of thirty-four of which were picked up by a British vessel.

Turkish police arrested the captain of the Greek vessel.