GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

A FATAL FIRE,

(United Press Association—By EJectrio Telegraph.—Copyright. 1

(Received this day at 8 a.m A LONDON, Aug. 10,

Theatre crmvi'p watching, a fire late at night at the Turkish baths next to tlie Alhambra, in Leicester Square, saw a woman, leave the sixth storey window and cling to the letter R on the Turkish hath sign until rescued from an escape. There were other exciting incidents. Firemen overcome by the heat fell from the ladder. A woman’s charred body was found on the fourth floor when the flames were mastered. The Alhambra was saved from the flames. SWIMMER MARRIED. LOajXIN, August 10. The swimmer, Miss Mercedes Gleitze, has married Patrick Carey,, an engineer of Dublin. She immediately goes to the Continent, en route to Constantinople here she intends to swim Hellspont.

PASTEUR INSTITUTE DISCOVERY. PARIS, Aug. 10. ; Pasteur Institute, which was always foremost in the war against vats, has discovered the bacillus of rate typhoid, which is now obtainable in small phials, It preserves its tovie qualities for a considerable time and is dissolved in cold water previouly boiled, with which bread or grain is impregnated. One rat contracting the disease is sufficient to infect whole t-olonies, which will die in a few days. The virus is innocuous to human bodies, and domestic animals, game and poultry. RECORD HEAT. IN MESOPOTAMIA. BASRA, August 10. Mesopotamia is far outdoing the American heat wave. At present it is the hottest place on earth, shade temperature at Basra reaching 130 daily. Two members of the Royal Air Force and a number of other Europeans died at Bagdad. Elsewhere there were numerous cases ■of heat stroke. Even It preserves its toxic qualities for a ping dead. LORD BIRKENHEAD EASIER. RUGBY, August 10. Lord Birkenhead passed a quiet night and Ins condition to-day, was slightly better,