GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1928, Page 8

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

FORT EXPLOSION.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (By Cable —Press Assn.—Copyright.) MADRID, September 27. The Mellila death roll is fifty-seven. The explosion of twenty tons of powder left no vestige of the fort. It is feared that many people were blown to atoms. A mother was found weeping beside the bodies of her three sons. CHELTENHAM BY-ELECTION. LONDON, September 27.Owing to the death of Sir A. C. Gardner, Conservative M.P. for Cheltenham, a by-election was held, and re : suited as follows: —Sir Walter Preston (Conseravtive) 10,438, Sir John Brunner (Liberal) 6,678, Miss Widdowson (Labourite) 3,963.

EMPIRE INDUSTRIES

NEW YORK, Sepember 27

Lord Melchett (formerly Sir Alfred Mond) has arrived here. In an interview, he defended his programme of mergers. He said that it had been his ambition to develop the British Empire as a single, vast economic unit, and to foster industrial co-operation.

TURKEY’S ALPHABET

LONDON, September 27.

■ Tho Times’s correspondent at Conistantinople, says that the whole of Turkey, except the “diehards” of certain religious elements, and those otherwise hostile to learning, are adopting the new alphabet, in which all newspapers will be printed.

CANADIAN AFFAIRS.

WINNIPEG, September 27.

After consultation with the Red Cross, the Government announced a .25,000 dollars subscription for the British West Indies hurricane relief. “There is no foundation for the charge made by Bishop Lloyd here on Wednesday, that there had been a deliberate attempt to keep Britishers from Canada,” said the Minister for Immigration (Mr. Forke). “We are doing everything possible to bring to Canada Britishers willing and capable to work on farms.”