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Australian and N.Z Cable Association. The Anglo-Russian Committee, set up to promote trade union unity and facilitate the entry of Russia to tho Amsterdam International, met secretly for four days in Berlin. The fact that the meetings were protracted till midnigst daily indicated that the differences on the question of uniting the trade union movement of Europe were by no means overcome. The result of the discussions is embodied in a protocol for submission to the respective executives, and will not be published. Five British delegates returned to Londo nby airplane. They declined to see pressmen. *,* , . A gang of 38 Chinese pirates, disguised as passengers, looted the Norwegian steamer Sandviken of money, jew-ellery, and clothes, amounting to 20,000 dollars. • • • • The fishing sohooner Sadie Knuckle was lost in a storm off the Nova Scotia a fortnight ago, when two ether vessels met with disaster. The total lose is now 47 lives. • • * * The latest reports of tlie storm wihch swept tho Eastern Louisiana Coast up to the Mississippi show a death roll cf five, and several missing, with damago estimated between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 dollars.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 3
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185CABLE MISCELLANY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 3
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