GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

BANDIT RISING. IN VENKZKULA. (United Preoß Association—By Electric Telegraph,—Copyright ) BOGOTA, December 21. A Columbia newspaper reports that the toll of a revolutionary disturbance in South Western Venezeula is three hundred. Revolutionaries captured the town of La. Batera, killing the civil chief and burning the City Hall and public archives. The Government troops were surprised and were unable to defend the city. <■ A communique issued at San Cristobel, the capital of the State of Tachira, in which La Batera is situated, said the outbreak was a bandit depredation without any reyolutionary motive. IN BOILING AIUD. JAVA VOLCANIC DISASTER. AVELTEVREDEN, December 22. AVhile working near the volcano Alerapi, in Central Java, three hundred natives perished in a boiling mud stream. NEW ZEALAND LAMB. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 23. Sir T. M. and Lady Wilford inspected the SmithfUkl display of New Zealand prime lambs at the Royal Agricultural Show. DEFEATED CHINESE LEADER. SHANGHAI. Dec. 22. Yen Hs'.shan, a defeated leader in the recent revolt, left Tientsin for Dairen. He declared his destination was Japan and that he had no intention to ever return. He is planning a year tour of Europe and America. INDIAN FLYER. DELHI, ]>r. 22. A young Mohammedan, A. Aforad. who learnt living in Calcutta starred a. flight, to the Cape for a prize offered by Aga Kihan. He is only nineteen years of age and is flying n second-hand Moth.