GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

THE HKDVIG.

'United Proso Association—By Electric " Telegraph.—Copyright.)

this day at 8 a.m.) lIONG KONG December 3

The hazardous rescue of the stranded Scandinavian ship, Hedvig’s crew is being attempted by the Suffolk’s lifeboats, which were launched in tempestuous seas, and are now threading their way across a 12 mile lagoon. THE HEDVIG’S CREW. HONG KONG, Deo. 4. The steamer Hedvig’s crew were taken off and are returning to the cruiser. The danger had not yet passed approaching nightfall. GREW ALL SAFE. HONG KONG, December 4. The Hedvig’s crew are all safe aboard the Suffolk, after 49 hours oi terrible experience in a raging sea. The Navy’s spectacular rescue, threading. its way through the waveswept reefs, is a memorable epic. They are due at Hong Kong in the morning. '

AN EARTHQUAKE. IN BURMA DISTRICT. DELHI, Dec. 4. Twen tv-two were killed and many injured in Pyu area near Toungoo, in an earthquake experienced throughout Burma this morning. A large number of biddings were destroyed and the court house and two railway bridges were badly damaged in Pyu. causing a suspension of service between Upper and Lower Burma. A, fir© broke out followjntr the shocks and several simps were gutted. Heavy damage was caused to buildings in Toungoo, 'hut Rangoon escaped lightly. LABOUR MANIFESTO. LONDON, December 4. Thirty Labour members of the House of Commons have signed a manifesto by Mr Mosley, demanding treatment of the unemployment situation. as a national emergency; also the appointment of a Sunreme Cabinet not exceeding five members and similar to the War Cabinet, to direct the nation’s affairs and take emergency measures in relation to the mines and railways. and dumping of foreign goods bciiow fair prices. obituary. LONDON, December 4. Obituary—Captain France Melville Tuke.