Cable Jotting

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 362, 24 May 1928, Page 9

Cable Jotting

MORE MINERS KILLED. —An explosion occurred in a coal-mine at Yukon, near Bluefield, West Virginia. Seventeen miners were killed. —A.P.A.; U.S. ARMISTICE POPPY. —The private Bill to prohibit the importation of imitations of the British Legion’s poppies was read a second time in the House of Commons.—A.P.A.; U.S. MURDER OF CHINESE. —The man who has been arrested at Silkwood, Queensland, for the alleged murder of two Chinese, is Thomas Pilling. He lived formerly in Tasmania. GERMANY TO PAY.—Subjects of Canada have been awarded £1,257,878, as war reparations against Germany tu the report of the Commissioner, Mr. Friel, who investigated their claims.— A.P.A.; U.S. CURRENCY BILL—The Currency Pill, which gives to the Bank of Engan<* the control of the issue of banknotes, was read a third time in the Rouse of Commons by 219 votes to 101. —A.P.A.; U.S. STRUGGLE FOR VILNA. —The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain, gave to Professor A. Valdemaras, premier of Lithuania, who is visiting £ n f! an d. In an interview. Professor aidemaras said Lithuania would renounce her right to Vilna. — COOK MEMORIAL.—The site of the cottage where the famous navigator, Ptain Cook, was born, has been by a granite vase placed in a Haii v \°l ets in the grounds of Marton ***• which will be opened as a public Ug at Middlesbrough to-morow. — SLAYERS MUST DlE.—The .Court rim inal Appeal has dismissed the William Kennedy and Freddtatk « wne against their sentence to staKi *° r tlie murder of Police-Con-Junti ° ut teridge. The Lord Chief ,7 e ' Lord Hewart, said the case aa Plain as a pikestaff.’’—U.S.