GENERAL CABLES.
CHILIAN RAILWAY DISASTER. SANTIAGO (Chile), April 19. Fourteen were killed and twenty injured in a train wreck between Iquique and Antofogasta, when a locomotive lost its wheels. AFGHAN CIVIL WAR. , t DELHI, April 19. Kabul reports that a plot by supporters of Amanullah to murder Habibullah was detected. Four men were blown from the cannon’s mouth HAVELOCK WILSON. LONDON, April 19. Their Majesties’ message of condolence to Mrs Havelock Wilson concludes: The King regrets the loss of one whom he alwayg held in high regard.
FATALITY. RUGBY, April 17. Major-General Sir William Birkbeck, Director of Remounts at Army Headquarters from 1912 to 1920, has keen killed at St. Briac, near Dinard. He lost his footing on the top of the cliffs and fell over 100 feet to the rocks below. SUMMER-TIME. LONDON, April 19. Summer time begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday. DISARMAMENT. GENEVA, April 19. The Preparatory Commission adopted the opinion of the Bureau Committee’s legal advisers that they should continue the preparation of the draft disarmament plan, and allow the Soviet to submit its project to the Disarmament Conference proper. COMMONWEALTH LOAN. CANBERRA, April 20. The Commonwealth seven million sterling loan was over subscribed When subscriptions closed the total number of subscribers was ten thousand.
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Grey River Argus, 22 April 1929, Page 5
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