GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 20 October 1934, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES

(Aufi. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) SHANGHAI October 18. A dispute between the police and military i u Kwantung territory ha s taken a senbus turn, jwith the resignation to-day of three of the highest officials of the Kwantung Government as a protest against the decision of the T»pkio Cabinet that Japanese gandarmerie in the three Eastern provinces should commarirf" the Japanese police, which aroused bitter police opposition. The Dairen police headquarters announced the intention to recomend the resignation of the entire police force. Meanwhile the Kwantung army is ready to replace all the resigned officers and men, with militia. RUGBY, October 17. Officials of the Relief Committee acting in connection with the recent Gresford Colliery disaster calculate the total national response fund for assistance of dependents of the victims will amount to -about £300,000, having regard to the workmen’s com pensatiou and widows’ pensions, which the relief fund will supplement. Thi's sum, it is stated, will be adequate for their maintenance. HAVANA. October ]B.

Four men, armed with machineguns, rifled the City Hall Treasury to-day, (and ecsaped with 150,000 dollars. The bandits took only UnTled States currency, and left in the vaults more than 'one million dollars in silver coins. The Treasurer and his assistants were locked in the safe. NEW YORK, October 17. A large hydroplane -attempting contact with the liner Washington, 700 miles from New York, in order to pick up a newsreel pciture of the Alexan-der-Barthou assassinations, crashed a milo from the vessel. One of the six occupants was drowned, but the others were rescued. The wing of the aero piano -was severely damaged by a large wav a TUG BY, October 18. For the past three days th a Italian steamer Leopardi, has been steaming at top speed for Ijondon, with a fire smouldering in one of her holds. The fire was discovered when the vessel was' approaching the Bay of Biscay

and the master, Captain Sperber, ordered the hold to be battened down and steam pumped into it to obviate the risk of the, outbreak bursting iut<» flame.

Captain Sperber wirlessed London, asking that the Fire Brigade should be in attendance when the ship berthed at Bermondsey, early this morning. The firemen iimmediate’.y boarded the vessel and were engaged for nearly four hours before the outbreak was finally under control. RUGBY, October IS. The <|erman effluiser Deutschland, steamed up the Firth of Forth, to day and was received with a salute ot guns from Edinburgh Castle. The vessel, which is paying the first visit of a German man-of-war to Scottish waters since the war, will remain in the Firth until Monday.