CABLE MISCELLANY

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12526, 16 August 1926, Page 7

CABLE MISCELLANY

Australian and N.Z. Gable Association The French Government has decided to reduce the Rhineland garrison from 58,000 to 50,000 in September. Bernardo Duggan, who began his flight from New York, on May 24th, but met many mishaps, arrived in Buenos Aires on Friday. * • o' • An explosion, similar to that at Milan on August 4th. occurred in'a fireworks factory at Capurco. Twenty persons were caught amid the blazing ruins and rescue work was most perilous owing to adjacent stocks of gunpowder. Eight were killed and seven are missing, a lighfea candle falling among fireworks stored in a house in readiness for celebrating a saint’s day at Castel Franci, Milan, blew up the building, plunged the town into darkness, and caused a panto at an open-air concert. Twenty people were killed and a hundred injured. * • # *

At an inquiry into the driyerleas train accident ot Newcastle, England, the evidence showed that the control handle of the electrio train had been tied with a handkerchief.

apparently belonging to the driver, who was found dead on the line. The effeot was to depress the handle, and thus allow the control to be left with full power on, though the motOrman was absent. Doctors gave evidence that the driver’s death was due to liia head striking a bridge while he was leaning out. Nine bodies have been recovered out of thirty buried in a landslide at Wiju, ip North Korea. # * # * Twelve people were killed and thirty injured at Langenßa'ch, in Bavaria, as the result of the derailment of a train from Berlin. Three coaches wero overturned. • • * • f Police headquarters in Constantinople have ordered foreign chambers of commerce to cease operations immediately. The ban had been thrent- . ened for some time past, but if' was not thought it would ever be enforced, as the Government had considering whether to apply the Turkish laws to foreign chambers or permit operations in conformity with obligation^