GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

THE DEATH ROLL,

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NEW YORK, April 13. The Tacoma dead arc now reported to be seventeen.

GANDHI'S FAILURE,

DELHI, April 13

After a week’s campaign it is evident that Gandhi has not achieved liis object, and his failure to rouse the whole country at the launching of the movement has created dismay in Congress ranks.

BOMB EXPLOS'ONS

DELHI, April 13

Two bomb explosions occurred in Bombay, one in a local railway train and the other in a- waiting room at Bycnlla railway station. Two Indians were seriously injured. A young Mohammedan was arrested for alleged complicity.

CONDITIONS IN CHINA

(Received this day a’t 9.40 a.m.) SHANGHAI, April 13

Communists attempts to create trouble in Shanghai in the last few days were reduced to naught, owing to the firmness of the new Chinese court, which handed seventeen Communist youths to outside native authorities for severe punishment. With the northern rebellion hanging fire, Moscow is reported to have sent numerous Russians to Shanghai disguised as whites, for the purpose of stirring up serious trouble to embarrass the rear of the Nanking Government. Foreign authorities view the next three weeks with considerable anxiety. The war situation is unchangd.' save that Nanking is still slowly withdrawing southwards along the Tientsin-Pukow railway.

SUMMER TIME IN ENGLAND. LONDON, April 13. Summer time began at two o’clock this morning.

SEAPLANE RECORD. PARIS, April 14

The aviator, Merino/., flying a closed circuit on the Mediterranean coast established a world's seaplane record of 3323 kilometres in tweny-two hours six minutes, beating the record. The Americans, Ccnnel and Rodd, record was 2520 kilometres.

GOAL MINE DISASTER

21 MINERS KILLED

WASHINGTON, April 13

A terrific gas explosion five hundred feet underground in Carbonado coal mine killed twenty-one miners on Saturday night. Half of the bodies were recovered three hours later.