LATE NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1950, Page 6

LATE NEWS

U.S. DESTROYER STRIKES MINE OFF NORTH KOREA WASHINGTON, October 2 (Rec. 3.10 p.m.).—The Navy Department announced today that the United States destroyer; Mansfield, struck a mine off North Korea last Saturday. Seven men were injured but the destroyer reached port under her own power. The announcement said the Mansfield hit a mine about 40 or 50 miles north of the 38th Parallel, off the east coast of Korea and near the city of Changjon. . The Navy’s report followed on the heels of the testimony by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Forrest Sherman to the House Armed Services Committee, that United States ships off Korea had recovered a great many Russian-type mines. Admiral Sherman said that the Soviet was a signatory to The Hague convention outlawing floating mines. TRANSIT HOUSING TO BE DISCUSSED

WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.). —The standard of the transit houses being built under the Government housing policy and the action, of carpenters in ceasing work on some of these projects are to be discussed at conferences of building trade _ representatives, to be held in Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin on Thursday. The four conferences are being convened by the Federation of Labour and representatives of all unions affected have been invited io attend. NEW PLYMOUTH FIRE NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day (P.A.). —Extensive damage was done to the 19-bedroom Terminus Hotel, on St Aubyn street, New Plymouth, when the two-storey building was swept by a sudden fire shortly before midday today.