GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

IN RHINELAND

fUnited Press Association.—By F.lectnc Telegraph.—Copyright.]

BERLIN, Jut (5.

Further savage attacks on Rhineland. separatists have occurred in Wiesbaden. The police once had to charge the mob with drawn sabres, but they were unable to prevent the sacking of shops and houses.

. One tobacconist, and his son were nearly beaten to death, and vengeance wreaked even on girls and women who had associated with the French. One woman was badly mauled. She had her clothes reduced to tatters.

Mainz is now quiet, but the police there have had to draw a cordon round the centre of the town, and to stop the traffic in order to check the wreckers and looters.

OBITUARY.

LONDON, July 7. Obituary.—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE

REPORTED FROM CHINA

(Received this day at 8 a.m.)

SHANGHAI, July 7

Six hundred are estimated dead, thousands injured arid several villages demolished in Chaoli district. Yunnan province by a violent earthquake at night.

STEAMER SINKS.

AFTER COLLISION. -

(Received this day at 8 a.m.)

SHANGHAI, July. 7,

Seoul wireless station reports the sinking of the Norwegian steamer Dampto off Shantung peninsula in a dense fog to-day following a. collision with the Hotenmaru. The former’s crew were saved. ! 1

KIDNAPPED PRISONERS

HEDSINGFORS July 7

Pekkala and Roekoe have been liberated. As reprisals for the kidnapping, communists set fire to several buildings in Finland including railway warehouses.

JAPANESE DELUGE,

27 LIVES' LOST,

TOKTO, July 7

Twenty-seven are reported to have been drowned, and there are thousands homeless in the Yamagata Ken district as the result of sucessive rains, which have caused the rivers to rise twenty feet

There is extensive flooding, and the' railways are interrupted, while bridges and embarkments have been destroyed. There has been tremendous damage to crops.

DIES IN BARREL

VANCOUVER, July 6

A message from Niagara Falls, Ontario, states: A barrel in which George Stathakis; of Buffalo, New York, attempted to navigate the rapids above Niagara Falls on Saturday ,and plunged over the cataract, was recovered to-day below the falls intact. Stathakis was dead. His death was due to suffocation.

POLO

LONDON. July 7

At Hurlingham in, the Ist. round for the Prince of Wales Cup, England beat Australia by 10 goals to 9.