OVERSEA NEWS
CABLES IN BRIEF. Volcano Again Active; The volcano Santa Maria was again in violent eruption on Sunday. The town of El Palma is threatened. Bomb Outrage in Derry: A bomb explosion at Derry wrecked the Northern Counties Club. The police later raided the Gaelic classes. Huge Welsh Merger; Negotiations are nearly complete for a merger of the Abercoyn and Cambiian collieries, with a capital of £10,000,000, controlling sixty pits and employing 40,000 miners, one-fifth of the total of South Wales. pope Does Not Favour Fixed Easter; It is reported that the Vatican has informed Britain that the Pope does not favour the reform ot the Gregorian calendar with the establishment of a fixed Easter. Rival Political Parties Clash: Three persons were killed and 12 seriously wounded in a violent clash between rival political parties in the centre of Mexico City on Sunday. Five hundred rifle and pistol shots were fired during half an hour’s battle between groups totalling 10,000. Dusseldorf in panic: Panic has seized the populace of Duseldorf following the discovery of the twentieth victim ot Jack the Ripper. ’I he body of the five-year-old daughter of a miner was found under a bush near the Zoo. The child had been stabbed 35 times. She had been playing outside her uncle’s house on Thursday and a young man spoke to her. She joyously told her companions she was going to the Zoo. She had not been seen since, though 30 detectives and 40 police scourd the district. The foiemost crime experts in Germany have gone to Dusseldorf to try to solve the mystery of the amazing series of murders. Women and children are remaining indors after dark.
Chinese Extraterritoriality: The British Government has notified'the Chinese Government of its willingness to be represented at a meting to discuss extraterritorial rights in China to be held on November 19. The British Government’s communication states the view that the present system should be maintained until the Chinese code of laws approximates the Western standards, and other Governments interested in Chinese extraterritoriality are understood to have made communications of a similar nature.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 281, 12 November 1929, Page 6
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