Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 239, 5 March 1910, Page 3

Beyond the Dominion

REAL HEROISM. London. While two steeplejacks were fixing a lightning conductor on a chimney, one was overcome by gas fumes, and fainted on a nine-inch scaffold. % His colleague tied him to a plank in an unconscious condition. Two men, named McWhiter and McLelland whn had never climbed a chimney before, observed the plight of the steeplejacks, and ascended the stack 180 ft. and rescued the unconscious man, despite the risk of death from the fumes. Both have been awarded the. Albert medal of the first class.

AIRSHIPS FORBIDDEN. Berlin. The German Goveronment is preparing regulations to forbid airship lines from passing over fortresses, and prohibit airship stations from being established in fortified towns.

AMERICAN RIVALRY FEARED. New York

Surprise ltringled with resentment is expressed at the abandonment of the exhibition of American products projected for Berlin in the summer. :

This is due to the German Government refusing official countenance. The refusal is attributed to the tear of American industrial rivalry.

BRITISH TRADE GOING,

London. Lord Muskerry, addressing the Imperial Merchant Service Guild at Liverpool, complained that while so much attention was focussed on the great increase in the German navy, no attention was given to the extraordinary increase in the German merchant navy.

Trade was slipping away from us in all parts of the globe, and was being annexed by Germans, who were our most dangerous opponents in the matter of mercantile maritime commerce.

AVALANCHE BURIES TRAINS. New York. An avalanche swept down the slopes of one of the Cascade Mountains, near Everett, in Washington State, burying two trains deep under the snow. Six hours elapsed before a rescue party could reach the scene, and before the trains were dug out many of the passengers had succumbed. Twenty bodies have already been recovered, while many injured have been removed from under the snow and debris.

Twenty-five passengers are still missing, and it is feared that they have perished.

WIRELESS ON WARSHIPS. Sydney. The warship Pioneer picked up and answered the Powerful's wireless message from North Cape on Thursday night. The following night the Pioneer's apparatus was dismantled in order to instal & more powerful one. The Cambrian's gear is also old. It is otherwise claimed that the warships would have got the messages Pike received. Within a short time most of the ships of the Australian squadron will be fitted with improved instruments similar to those on the Powerful, and it is expected that they will be able to receive and transmit regular messages to New Zealand.