CABLE NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 97, 24 December 1914, Page 4

CABLE NEWS

RUSSIAN PALACE BURNED. Press Association —Copyright, (Ee'e. 10 a.m.) PETROGEAD, Dec. 23. Kutukhtu’s palace at Urga has been burned with the whole of its treasures. [The only Urga we know of is in Mongolia.] A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. A STEEPLEJACK ADVENTURE. (Reed. 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 23. Two men named Rafter and Mayhall, steeplejacks, were repairing the chimney of the Leeds electricity works when Rafter dropped a hammer on Mayhall’s head, some feet below him. Mayhall fell backwards, unconscious, suspended by his legs. Rafter descend, ed, and with a third stepplejack’s assistance, roped Mayhall, who was then lowered 150 feet to the ground. He was taken to the hospital in an unconscious condtiion.

AGED PRIEST IMPRISONED.

HE WROTE TO A PAPER

(Reed. 8.45 a.m.)

LONDON, Dec. 23

Abbe Beyart, an aged retired priest, cf Bruges Trienium, has been committed to imprisonment in Germany for writing a letter to a London paper. ; AMERICAN" PARSON CONVERTED. DENOUNCES GERMANY. TEUTONIC CONGREGATION DEMAND HIS RESIGNATION. (Reed. 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dee. 23. Rev. Doctor I-lelliss, cf Brooklyn, hitherto regarded as Germany’s greatest intellectual asset in the United States, has undergone conversion and has denounced Gerinany.from the pul'd t as the world’s menace, burglar, bandit and murderer. His Teutonic congregation rose eii masse and demanded Hellies’ resignation.