MINERS ENTOMBED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25396, 28 December 1945, Page 5

MINERS ENTOMBED

DISASTER IN KENTUCKY EXPLOSION UNDERGROUND fed. 11.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 27 Hope has been abandoned that between 30 and 50, coalminers who were «ntombcd today by an underground explosion at Pineville, Kentucky, would be brought up alive. Rescue workers encountered an inferno of burning debris and coal 3100 ft from the mine Mtrance and half-way to the trapped men. Mr Daniel Harrington, an official of toe United States Mines Bureau, said fts violent explosion had probably wiled all the miners. PURCHASE BY ITALY AMERICAN WAR MATERIAL ®ecd. 11.55 p.m.) ROME. Dec. 27 The Italian Government officially announced that it has purchased linited States war material to the value of £1,943,222. The goods are principally railway material, "and included 133 locomotives. fuse flares drift up people warned PERTH, Dec. 27 A large number of fuse > flares, the <Monatnrs of which would, if exploded, Wow off a person's hand, arc being gashed up on the coast near Fremnntle. I"6y are believed to be part ol the fnited States Navy surplus explosives l&ich have been dumped at sea. The Australian Navy has issued a danger against handling the flares. A boy of 14, who found a fuse flare P r 'the beach and played with it, had his " a nd badly burned ami narrowly esCa Ped serious injury when it exploded. A search party later collected about 50 'uses in the vicinity.

INDIAN ELECTIONS LONDON, Dec. !20 Nearly all the results of the Indian elections are known. Of the 102 seats three have not yet completed Jneir returns. The latest figures show *?&t the National Congress Party and "is Moslem League are the only two Parties that count. All other parties * la *'e suffered an eclipse. At present the Congress Party holds a h°ut (30 seats and the Moslem League aI »ut half that tjumber. If the provincial elections follow the fat Tie trend there will hp a clear-cut '*siie between the Moslem League and weir proposed State ( Pakistan) and the fp s>t of British India.