GENERAL CABLES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 28, 2 January 1942, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

London.—Six arc dead and 44 entombed following an explosion in the Sneyd colliery (Staffordshire). Rescue teams are toiling to reach the entombed men and it is thought some may be rescued alive. Mexico City.—A special committee has been appointed to investigate propaganda, sabotage, ami espionage by Axis agents in. Mexico. Representative Dias informed Parliament that at present 150 German, Italian, and Japanese spies arc operating under the direction of a former German Minister. .. Rugby.—A message to the women ot Britain"and the United States, which has been sent by a general meeting of women in the city of Kuibyshev, calls on them "to unite in one antiFascist front, to unite all your forces to combat the worst enemy of mankind —Hitlerism." New York.—The British and Canadian Governments are about to consent with great reluctance to a demand by the State Department that the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon be restored to Vichy and the Free French naval forces ousted, says the Washington correspondent of the Post. Guayaquil (Ecuador).— Many persons were injured and several buildings shattered by a strong earthquake. Melbourne.— Sergeant Gerald Backhouse, of the R.A.A.F., the champion mile runner of Australia has boon reported killed in an aircraft accident in England. , , , . , ■> New York.-New York celebrated the traditional noisy New live despite the war. The usual crowd o 200 000 thronged Times Square, which this vear. in view of possible air raids, was guarded by more than 2000 policemen and 1600 air wardens t Honolulu.—lt is disclosed that the Japanese aircraft bombing Pearl Harbour used a new weapon—a 15in aerial shell weighing 18001 b. They were dropped from more than 10.000 ft. Washington.—lt is officially announced that the rubber quotas for January will allow the nation 350000 new tyres compared with four million a month last year. j