BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Austiab’an and N.Z. Cable Association.)

BOILER EXPLODES.}- . ” VANCOUVER;■> AugUSt t -27,

A message from Dayton, Alabafna, states that one white'and six, negroes were killed on Thursday when a cotton gin boiler exploded.

BOMB ON RAILWAY. . RIGA, August 27.

A bomb' plabed on the rails, blewup a train carrying Russian troops. The ammunition exploded and five waggbns were destroyed, scores being killed and wounded.

ROME’S NEW. STATUS. ROME, August 28. The Cabinet has- decided that’Rome City shall cease to be administered by a local authority. Jt becomes a State-governed capital,. svith the 'Governor as head.

LIQUOR FOR RUSSIANS. RIGA, August 28. ~ The... Soviet, has -decided .to ie-estab-, lish the full forces of the old Imperial’ vodka monopoly, - which the Tsarist Government abrogated on the eve .of the War'. - , ' SOCIALISTS’ .NEWS-SERVICE”!'• LONDON, Altgixst ’2B. The “Daily Herald’s” Marseilles correspondent says: The Socialisti'ln-' ternational has appointed commit tee to investigate the possibility of K ' the formation of a wqrld-wide Socialist news service.”’- • •«•. I , i ' NAVAL ECONOMICS. f ■ LONDON, -August 277 « >.ln continuance of-a programrhe -.of*aaval economies, the Admiralty dne ! lisposing of vessels, including HiebexUi New: Zealand cruiser Chatham,, also the Blenheim, participated in me Gallipoli landing. ” '■ ■' ZIONIST'CONGRESS , VlENNA,!4«gusfc 27?••• Though the Zionist congresd; ffiy 136 vtotes to 17. expressed confidehdb in the President, Doctor he has resigned because 156 Socialists at the Congress Abstained from” participation in the vote. ' 'r' AMERICAN MINERS.' " -” VANCOUVER,'August' 27l A Philadelphia message states ' that’ Mr. John, Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of;* America,-to-light'called for a suspension of work , m the anthracite field on September i. " : >