NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16579, 7 November 1924, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

ACCIDENT TOOK TOLL <J-F 84,000 IN U.S. LAST YEAR. LOUISVILLF, Ky., 04, 2.—Eightyfour thousand lives were lost in the United States last year as the result- of accidents. The death toll amounted to 1462 per week, or 2C9 a day. Automobile accidents headed the list with thirty-seven.a day. Falls killed thirtysix a day. d'rownings nineteen and railroad accidents eighteen. ANCIENT CITY UNCOVERED IN TRIPOLITANIA. TRIPOLI, African Italy, Oct. 2.—Mora marvellous*and artistic treasures of the ancient Roman Empire arc being lire,light to liobt. by excavations made at* Horn.(Leptis Magna), Tiipolitania, by Prof, llartocoini, the young archaeologist, who. under the encouragement of Count Volpi Governor of Tripolilania, has discovered an entire buried city containing finds of incalculable value. . 102 VILLAGES WIPED OUT. HUNDREDS OF VICTIM* OF AN ASIA MINOR EARTHQUAKE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept, 17.—An Er/.erum (Asia. Minor) message reports that an earthquake on September 13 destroyed. 102 villages and caused luin dreds of deaths, besides doing considerable material damage. The Turkish Government, and the Red Cross despatched immediate assistance. WHALE CUT IN TWO. BE RUNG ART A SHAKEN, BY IMPACT LONDON, Sept. 18.—The Berengariu this morning ran into a school of whale; frolicking in the calm, blue sea. The ship hit one more than 30ft long. The impact shook the great 52,C00-ton liner so that seamen in the fo’c’sle ran on. deck to see what had happened. The whale's great bulk, stuck to the bow until it fell away iii two parts. For a time it endangered the propellers. WATER TURBINES FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Vickers Limited hydro-electro department have received an order from the Government of New Zealand for two large water turbines, each with an out put. of 12,650 horse-power. These will bo installed' at Lake Coleridge in the South Island, and will provide power foi Christchurch. Ashburton, Timaru, anu district. The turbines will be construct ed at- Barrow-in-Furness.

SLEPT ON LIN I

TRAIN WOKE TITM UP

Staggering into the railway signal cabin near Port,Curtis Junction, Queens land, at- ah early liour one day lasi week, Peter Perrins told a signalman that lie went to sleep on the lino and was awakened by being dragged along by a passing train. l’e'rros was badly bruised.

Jammed- in the cowcatcher of tin-t-rain which caught him was found an old felt hat belonging to Perros.

SHIPWRECKED CREW’S FAREWELL.

NAGASKI, Sept. 22.—A grim message of farewell from the Japanese cargo steamer Matsuyama Maru, which found ered and went down with fifty-seven met. on July 11, has been picked Tip oft Kyushu. A lifeboat, almost the only trace of the ill-fated vessel picked up by searching ships, has been found, bearing tlie words, “The Matsuyama Maru hat. gone to her death.” There was only ono survivor of the wreck, a stoker, who was picked up off a raft after eight, days with no food' and little water.

SIX DAYS OX RAFT

SURVIVOR 9 FROM. SHIP LOST IN

HURRICANE

NEW YORK, Sept. 11. —The liner Southern Cross has landed six survivors of the. schooner Samuel W. Hathaway, who were rescued) from a raft in midocean after six davs’, exposure.

The men were, rescued 359 miles oast, of Cape Hat-terns. Their vessel, which was hound for Porto Rico, was destroyed by the hurricane which struck the Arabic and Homeric.

The captain and several of tho crew were drowned.

WAR WEAPONS OF THE FUTURE.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22—MajorGeneral Williams, the Chief of the Army Ordnance Department, addressing, the Franklin Institute at the Centenary celebrations, described spme new and improved war weapons, viz., high-speed tanks with guns turreted; a new and accurate trench mortar; a 75 mm. field gun with a range of .15,000 yards; a .50 calibre machinegun; a semi-automatife rifle; antiaircraft guns capable of destroying any number of plane#, with a horizontal. range of .17,000 yards; an increase of one-quarter in the range of all types of gun; arid .increased weight of projectiles. He emphatically denied that aircraft was eliminating warships. RAGE WITH DEATH. CAR OF CIRCUS HORSES BURNT. SAN FRANCISCO, O'ct, I.—Thirtysix “high school horses” of the A'l G. Barnes circus were burned to death neat Novd, Gal., at 2 a.in. tcu-day, when the second section of tho circus train caught fire. The animals, known to thousands who have seen llie circus, were valued fct £4OOO.

Reports to the iSqutheru Pacific Railroad Company here attributed the fire to explosion of a watchman's lantern.

The train was in motion when the llamas .suddenly were seen to shoot- from llii l car in which the “educated horses'" were being transported. Death shrieks of the prize animals, as the flames roared around them, pierced the night and were taken up by lions, hyenas, bears and other animals in ad joining cars. MR CYRIL MAUDE TO RETIRE. DEVONSHIRE RETREAT -IN 18 .MONTHS’ TIME. SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 4.-“ l shall be retiring after this tour in America,.” Thus Mr Cyril Maude casually announced, in conversation on board the Wliit e Star liner Olympic to-day, news that will, take every playgoer by surprise, ‘'Another year, or eighteen months, will see the end of my acting career,” lie said. “1 do not want to hang on long after the time has come for me to disappear. Resides, I want a, quiet life. T shall retire to a, little place) in Devonshire, and hunt and fish there while there is still life in my old hone's.” Mr Maude has gone hack to America to resume his part in “Aren’t, We All !” by Mr Frederick Lonsdale, the dramatist, who has live plays running in England and America, at the present time.

Mr Maude had to leave the play hurriedly last December owing to the illness of his wife, Miss Winifred Emory, which ended with her death last July.

70,C00 JEWS KILLED. MOSCOW. Sept. 15.- Official figures collect mi in trie .Ukraine by a Govern meat, <:< n miMee who investigated the loss of life and property dining the civii war there show that 1235 Jewish pogroms occurred in the, Ukraine, region in which 70,CC0 people were, killed, and more than half a million driven from their homes, while 200.C00 children wore orphaned. FAMOUS BEAUTY SPOT IN DANGER. CASCADES OF TIVOLI TO BE UTILISED FOR WATER POWER. ROME, Sept. 22.—Tho famous Cascades of Tivoli have, been purchased by a large industrial concern for the purpose of utilising them for electrical energy. There is great indignation against the authorities for allowing this beauty spot, to be used for commercial enterprise, arid the Artists’ Society of Rome has sent tm energetic protest to the. .Minister of Jnstrncl ion. The citizens of Tivoli are also much concerned, as the cascades are the rendezvous of all tourists visiting this part, of Italy. GUESTS LOOlv ON AS POLICEMAN IS SHOT. SAN FRAN CISCO, Oct. I—While guests at the exclusive Fairmont Hotel and adjoining fashionable apartments looked on panic stricken from the windows of their rooms, Police Sergeant M. J.. Brady was shot and probably fatally \\ounded' by bandits bore ear!} to-day. Brady challenged a party in a parked automobile in front, of the. Fairmont Hotel. Without, reply the occupants of the car opened fire. Brady fell, Hit Jive times by bullets. The car j- aped away.

Guests at the Fairmont, who had heard tho shots and seen the shooting, called for help atid Brady was taken to the emergency hospital, where his condition was pronounced critical.