GENERAL CABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1927, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

ALPINE RAILWAY SMASH •

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

PARIS, August 30. The Minister for the Colonies has awarded M. Ribiari, the conductor of the second car in the Chamounix disaster, a gold medal for his saving of sixty lives. PETROL EXPLOSION BERLIN, August 30The explosion was heard for miles when the German oil tanker, “Swendy,” carrying 800 tons of oil from Cologne, caught fire and blew up on the river Rhine, near Strasburg. The Captain, his wife, and child jumped into the river with their clothes blaz ing. The captain was drowned, but the others were rescued, though most seriously burned.

COPYRIGHT CONFERENCE.

ROME, August 30.

The International Copyright Conference originally fixed for October has now been postponed till early in 1928. EARTH’S CRUST MOVEMENT. LONDON, August 31. The “Westminster’ Gazette” says that as the result of recent fears that a movement of the earth’s surface, on the Lothiap Green theory ’ has been accelerated, the Observatories at Greenwich, Australia, New Zealand, Paris, Berlin, America, Algiers and Shanghai will begin observations to discover the mrivements, rising time signals’ on wireless of different wave lengths, the reception of which from three points on the' ■ same latitude, eight hours apart in longitude, is expected to accentuate the discrepancies.

Greenwich has now received data from all but three observatories, revealing the earth’s crust has not moved. * PRINCE’S WHEAT CROP. OTTAWA, August 31. It is officially announced at Calgary that the Prince of Wales signed a> contract with the Alberta Wheat Pool, covering a thousand acre crop.