CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES

The Ontario Government has prohibited the use of benzol in all factories on the ground that it is injurious to the health of the workers. Typhoon’s Toll. . , The China Sea typhoon season is early and severe. The Korean Government announces 40 dead and 770 fishermen missing from the last big storm. Idle Blue Funnel Ships. The Blue Funnel Line is dispensing with pursers in many vessels, and has paid off its masters, officers, and entire crew of eleven of its ships. The vessels are to be laid up. * * Trouble in State Coal Mina. The New South Wales State coal mine at Lithgow is closed following a dispute regarding wheelers, who. it is alleged, left work before th<. proper time. Seven hundred men are idle. * * * Broadbent in Sydney. The aviator Broadbent, whose longdistance non-stop flights are making a name for him in Australia, reached Sydney last night from Rockhampton. His aeroplane will be overhauled. Do X In New York. Conquering at last after ten months’ battle against fire, wave, and wind, the gigantic flying boat, Do X, arrived at New York by a roundabout course from Germany on Thursday with seventy-two persons aboard. She went direct from Norfolk (Virginia).