GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

OBITUARY. LONDON, August 14. Obituary.—Louis Tracy, the journalist author, aetat Go.

LAKE BREAKS AWAY

FROM INDIAN RANGES.

DELHI, Aug. 14. Villages in Kashmir and in the Northern parts of the Punjab are gravely endangered as the result of the collapse of a mammoth ice-barrier holding bac-k millions of tons of water that has been pent up in the former bed of the River Sliavak in the Karakoram Range, near Loll Kashmir. Tne dam burst at nine o’clock on Sunday night, and a torrent is nowrushing with great force towards the plains froiii a height of 17,000 feet. All of the villages below the flood level of the River Indies have been ~ evacuated, and thousands of refugees are xxiuring into Pesliawur. Colonel Howell, British Resident at Kashmir, had been encamped at the site of the dam for several days, and he was the first to give a warning of the break. Immediately a chain of giant bonfires were lighted, stretching for two hundred miles along the loftiest mountains and the river banks. To assist in the evacuation, large forces of police and soldiers are posted on baiius of the Kabul and the Indus rivers. Nowshera, a big military station, has been evacuated. It is feared that if it is attacked and its bridge is swept away, the north-west frontier will ho cut ofF. _ : i Before the collapse of the ice-bar- v l-ier, tlie lake was nine miles long and > five hundred feet deep in places. The ice wall was 1200 feet thick and 100 feet wide. The water level had been rising two feet daily for several weeks past. SWISS WATCHES. A LONDON, August 14. 'lhe “Daily Express” Geneva correspondent states: Australian and American business .men have arrived in Switzerland with the object of ascertaining the real value, cost and prices of the watches exported to their countries from Switzerland. The Swiss manufacturers l-esent the intrusion of their business men, who in.reply state that if permission to inspect the watchmaking factories is not granted, they will advise the prohibition of the import of Swiss goods into their countries. M.M.S. AUSTRALIA. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). MONTREAL, August 15. The Montreal portion of the visit of H.M.S. Australia ends on Wednesday when she sails for Quebec. She leaves Quebec on Thursday, arriving at .Halifax on August 22ud, and will cruise down the East Coast of the United States, reaching Boston on August 25th, New York 30th, Chesapeake Bay September 4th, Jamaica 13th, Colon 15th, Panama 17th. Going through the canal, she reaches Tahiti on 30th, Wellington on October 9th, Brisbane on 17th and Sydney 23rd.