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Evening Star, Issue 18031, 27 July 1922, Page 10

LATEST CABLES

MADRID,.JuIy 2C.—An aeroplane, which was engaged on the .Casa-blunca-Toulouso mail service, caught fire, and trashed at Guadix (near Granada). The pilot and two passengers were incinerated.—Reuter. LONDON, July 26—In the Pontypridd, by-election Mr Mardy Jones (Labor, 16,630 votes) defeated Mr T A. Lewis (12,550 votes). The election was duo to Mr Lewis becoming a Coalition Liberal whip.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, duly 2o.—The Migration Department's officials are visiting the labor exchanges in, the evenings in order to explain the migration schemes. The attendances aggregate 1,000 nightly. The officials will subsequently visit provincial exchanges.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, July 2f-.—At the Egypt inquiry a supernumerary officer (Mr French). deposed that Captain Carr handed him a revolver. Without using it, ho managed to make room in one boat for all the women passengers ho saw Tlie purser (Mr Borrows) gave, evidence that forty lascars crowded his boat. Ho did not .order them oilt, because he was doing other things. Mr Brown (third officer) related a thrilling adventure. He went into the flooded engine room of the sinking ship, When he was descending the ladder lie slipped and fell to the bottom into deep water. He managed to struggle to the centre lino of the ship, where the- water was only 4ft deep. He thus found the ladder again and escaped.—A, and N.Z. Cable.