GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11383, 8 December 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

ENTOMBED MINER RESCUED

(U.PIA.' ■by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Dec. 7, 5 p.m.) BERLIN, Dec. 6.

The entombed miner at Cologne, Weintlial, has - Ix?eri rescued perfectly well, after 183 hours’: entombment. The rescuers Worked aav and night, driving a -'gallery seven feet beneatu the blocked gallery, ancKthon upwards, thus obviating the danger of a fresh fall crushing Weinthal.

CORNISH MYSTERY DEVELOPMENT.

CUV A. by Elec. Tol. Copyright' (Received Dec. 7, 5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 6. Consequent on the issue, of a Home Office order, arrangements, have been made to disinter the bodies of the Misses Everard, aunt and sister of Mrs. Hearn, from .the churchyard at Lewanniclc, preparatory to an autopsy..

U-.S. DROUGHT RELIEF PLAN

(11.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Dec. 7, 5 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.

All. semblance of bipartisan Oongressional accord with President Hoover vanished when the Senate Agricultural Committee unanimously approved of the sixty million dollars drought relief programme in disregard to the twenty-five million dollars Administration proposal. Senator McNary, chairman of the committee, announced that he would report the sixty million measure to the Senate on December 8 for prompt passage. Meanwhile it is foreseen that the passage of this and other contemplated Bills will apparently increase the year’s Treasury deficit from 180 million dollars contemplated in President Hoover’s budget, to 330 millions.

AFRIDIS STILL TROUBLESOME,

(U.P t. bv Elee. Tel. Copyright) (Received Dec. 7, 5 p.m.) DELHI ; Dec. 6. British troops were in conflict with Afridis on Aka-khel plain on Thursday. Captain Henry St. Clair Ogilvie Mill, Adjutant of Rattray’s Sijkhs, was killed by an almost spent bullett and a private of the Seaforth Highlanders was wounded. The troops were covering road-mak-ing. parties, when the Afridis opened fire and attacked boldly till checked by a bayonet charge by tlie Jat regiment. The Seventeenth Dogras did good work driving the attackers back.

CHINESE STEAMER FOUNDERS

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Dec. 7, 5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Dec. .6. Three hundred Chinese were drowned at Yangstse near Hangkow, when a native . . steamer Sientam, voyaging to Changsha, foundered. Tlie passengers became panic stricken on the overloaded vessel, which capsized. • A

GERMAN POLITICAL UNREST

(U.P-A: by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (-Received Dec. 7, 5 p.m.) BERLIN, Dec. 6,

• The Reichstag, by 293 votes to 253, defeated a Nationalist-Commun-ist motion to revoke Bills for enforcing the Government's financial schemes, which even surprised the Government. A Nationalist motion of confidence was decided unadmissihle for : tactical reasons, after which the Nationalist-Communist no-confid-ence motion was rejected by 291 to 156. Cabinet!. will thus be able to proceed with its emergency legislation. and financial reforms.

SAFE RETURN . .OF . MISSING LADV MISSIONERS.

(U-F-A. by Elec. Tol. Copyright) (Received Dec. 7, 5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 6. Mrs. Hayward and Miss Gomersal were • interviewed at Peking after their forty-two days’ adventurous journey from Lanchow, accompanied by merchants and 1 escorted -by Mongols. Brigands made a surprise attack', when the women were-dragged from the party, with the intention of holding them for .ransom, but the. Mongols - counter-attacked and rescued .them. The party retreated to the mountaihs, . where they spent eight freezing days. Although _ the provincial authorities had four .thousand' troops, nothing was done' to effect their rescue until the diplomatic party afriVed.'. \ .' i ‘ . ,

FOUR BANDITS HANGED.

(XJ-P.A. bv Elec. Tel. Copvright) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5. . Four men died on the gallows today in California as punishment for banditry and murder that netted them exactly £9. ; Altogether 15 have been executed this year, a record for California! ■