GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

BELGIAN FOG DEATHS. DUE: TO CHEMICAL AGENTS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright ) BRUSSELS, December 19. The post mortem examinations on the fog victims has now made it clear that the cause of death was some toxic agent contained in the fog. It is stated that at certain factories byproducts had been treated which were not dangerous so long as they remain anhydrous,‘but they become injurious when plunged in a bath for any considerable time.

WHY BANK WAS CLOSED. TOKYO, December 19. The Japanese Ambassador at Moscow has been instructed to inform the Soviet authorities that the closing of the hank lit Korea, cabled yesterday is considered an unfriendly act, and to request the withdrawal of the order. The Soviet Embassy at Tokyo states the closing o f the Japanese bank is in accordance with the fixed policy of the Central Government to abolish the only bourgeois bank in the Soviet territory. IN NO HURRY. WASHINGTON, December 18. Consideration of the proposal for the United .States’ adhesion to the world court, put before it on December 10th, by President Hoover, has been postponed until next Congress in December 1931 by a Senate decision today. Religious leaders to-day handed to President Hoover a petition from 59 church bodies asking For American adherence to the court.

REDUCING CABLE CHARGES. LONDON, December 19. Imperial communications are reducing cable charges to New Zealand to wireless rates from Ist January. Tt is pointed out that the agreement with Amnlgaated Wireless provided for a similar reduction 'for Australian cables, but these will not be altered owing to the Commonwealth’s disapproval of the agreement. TRAGIC LOVE STORY. A MINER’S DEATH. (Received this d v at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 19. A tragic / love story of 1677 is recalled hv the lmrinl in Falun, a Sweden Churchyard, to-day of a miner named Metts. In 1677. Metis desnite the entreaties of his sweetheart, descended a deep shaft of Falun copper mine. Ho npvpr returned. Half a century later his body, which had been preserved m its youthful appearance liv vitriolic waters. was recovered. His fiancee, true to his memory, had not marirod and recognised the corose immediately. The petrified body has since been kept in a glass covered coffin in a. mining museum. Metis the subject of scores of Swedish poems and stories.