GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1922, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

TRAGEDY IN THE AIR. Paris, Sept. 21. Owing to the bursting of a petrol tank in the air a seaplane fell a thousand feet. The French pilot and the observer were burned to death before reaching the 'ground.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MINERS TO COMBINE London, September 21. Mr. Frank Hodges (British miners’ leader), on behalf of international miners generally, and British miners particularly. has invited the permanent offi-* eiaLs of the American Mine-workers’ Union to visit Europe to consider plans for mutual assistance of miners in all countries in the event of a miners’ lockout in any country.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STRIKE AT MARSEILLES. Paris, Sept. 21. Marseilles reports that only five hundred out of five thousand seamen are working and four thousand intending passengers are held up. t FAR EAST AFFAIRS. Tokio, Sept. 21. Regarding the suggestion that Japan should withdraw her force from Saghalien. a prominent Foreign Office official declared that there was not the least possibility of the withdrawal of a single bayonet until Japan had gained her point regarding Russian acknowledgment of the guilt of the Nikolaievsk massacre and satisfactory indemnity offered. FORD WORKS REOPENED. New York, Sept. 21. A message from Detroit announced that the Ford works will reopen to-morrow.