GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 24 November 1915, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

I RIVER ACCIDENT IN ITALY.. A BRIDGE CARRIED AWAY. J BY A CYCLONE. HUNDRED PEOPLE DROWNED. (Reed 11.25 a.m.) ROME, November 23. The river Salso rose suddenly. Afterwards a cyclone carried away the bridge at Licata, whereon many wejre watching the torrent. One hundred were drowned, and many large buildings were undermined! and collapsed. AN ENTHUSiASTiC PATRIOT. THE SMUTS CONTINGENT. EVERY GERMAN MUST GO. EAST AFRICA TO BE CLEARED'. (Reed 9.10 a.m.) CAPETOWN. Nov. 23. Mr Smuts’ rousing speeches ape predicted to obtain, in a few days, thenecessary men for the East African contingent. South Africa is not prtoected by distance like Australia and must therefore remove the dangefr of a greater Germany. Britain’s splendid example wherein millions of soldiers came forward voluntarily made him proud of the British Empire. BIG BLAZE IN PARIS. THE BON MARCHE BURNING. WOUNDED SOLDIERS NARROWLY ESCAPE. PARIS, Nov. 23. A great fire is raging in an annexe of the Bon Marche store. Ninety wounded men who were in a temporaryhospital on the fifth floor were carried cut safely. The fire started in the basement owing to a short circuit. SERIOUS DAMAGE. PARIS, November 23. The fire was extinguished. The damage is serious.