LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1932, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS

MANY ALPINE TRAGEDIES

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) GENEVA,. April 22. In one week eight alpinists, must!\ German doctors and engineers, have been overwhelmed by avalanches. While the oldc.: - men were able to extrie-’t- 1 themselves, three of the younger died from suffocation. Constanto Yanbianchi, ski-ing with his nephew-, who was nineteen, on Blenio Pass, north of. Lugano, was buried in a. snowstorm.. Signor Vanbianchi fought his wry out, but his nephew was dead when rescuers found him. INFAMOUS BOW BELLS. LONDON, April" 22! '.~,i Mr Gordon Selfridge, tli<‘ deparlTii(-’iStV stoi-e owner, is believed to hel.,’ ; anonymous American wlm lias• Iqffefed-" to pay or the restoration of the i'aui.-, oils hells of St. Mary-le-Bow Church in. Clieapside, one of Sir CliristO[flier Wren’s Inaslvrpieces., • ' ' | Tliesei»l liens. " I lie’ll ; according ' :V I.o j legend, i Called Dick ' Whittington rtfLA: become f.ovd Mayor, have now heeil . silent many years. Their preservation would have been impossible hut for Mr SellVidge’s gift, which is understood to j lie about L'oflOO. Tin, Church authorities are still s"eking CfiOOO more for urgent repairs to the steeple roof, walls and organ ol what, they describe as “the* most lam-, oiis Parish Church in Ifnghind.”