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PACIFIC CABLE APPOINTMENT. LONDON, July 31. Mr Milward, chief electrician of the
Pacific Cable Company, has been appointed the. Board's manager wita headquarters at Sydney.
SMUGGLING OF ARMS
"The- Times's' , Simla correspondent emphasises the fact that smuggling of breechloaders into Afghanistan must ultimately mean a formidable increase in the Afghans' offensive strength and be an encouragement to tribal insurrection. BRITISH TRADE COMMISSIONER.
Mr G. H. Rollestou, who baa been. appointed British Trade Commissioner for New Zealand, sails by the Athenic. His headquarters will be in Wellington. FRENCH STRIKES. PARIS, July 31. The Confederation of Labour has issued' a manifesto, urging all Unions to imitate the builders' tactics as a protest against the Government's ferocious methods of repression. The Paris Press clamour for the •appresion of the Confederation of Labour, on the ground that it is a eeditious organisation.
MINERS ENTOMBED, VANCOUVER, August 1
By an explosion in the Crow's Nest Colliery, British Columbia, twentythree miners were entombed. There is little hope of tho men being rescued.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13184, 3 August 1908, Page 7
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