GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1919, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE. | . "~~ ' By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, October 2S. Twenty are dead as the result of an explosion and fire in a coal mine at •Steubeuville, Ohio. AMERICAN VESSEL SUNK. New York, October 28. The steamer City of Muskegon, while 'entering the harbor at Muskegon, Michigan, struck the pier and sank in four ■minutes. Three passengers and seven. of the crew were drowned. The remainder scrambled up on to the pier. BELGIAN TRAITORS SENTENCED. Brussels, October 28. The Assize Court sentenced two men to 20 years' imprisonment, another to 15 years and others to 10 years for conducting the newspaper Belgique under German auspices during the occu-pation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CRIMES IN BELGIUM. Brussels, October 29. The Government lias forwarded to Paris 1150 names of German civilians and soldiers charged with crimes during the invasion and occupation of ißelgium. . WOMEN WORKERS' CONFERENCE. ' Washington, October 28. ■ The International Conference of working women has met for the first time, delegates from 12 countries being present, The object of the conference is to consider Labor legislation with special reference to women. t UNITED STATES PROPAGANDA. Washington, Oct. 30. An official investigation shows that the United States war-time propaganda cost the country half a million sterling. The affairs of the propaganda bureau were found to be in a strife of hopeless con-fusion.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Received Nov. 1, 12.10 a.m. Rome, Oct. 29. The Holy See has recognised Czechoslovakia. WORLD PEACE CONGRESS. Sydney, Nov. 1. Mr. Holman has announced that the World Peace Congress will meet in Sydney in October, 1920. DYNAMITER SENTENCED. ) New York. Oct. 29. At Fredericton. New Brunswick, Wernor Horn, a German officer who was found guilty of dynamiting a Canadian railway bridge over the St- John River during the war, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.