GENERAL CABLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12111, 26 July 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

KOBE SHAKEN. Kobe, Japan, June 9 Fifty Japanese men are missing and shipping interests seriously interrupted by an explosion of gasoline on the steamer Eiraku Maru yesterday. The explosion shook the city like an earthquake. "' The vessel was destroyed and the fire spread to a score of gasolineladen junks ; which drifted blazing out to sea, the crews shrieking for help. It is believed the: loss of a life will be very heavy. | „,S i^,^^'™™^ UNITY OF PURPOSE. London, June 11 Mr Andrew Bonar Law, speaKing at a political meeting in Birmingham, said lie believed there ;was more unity of purpose in the present Government than in any other Government during the war. In Anieri-, ca, the moment tho war was over they reverted to the old party dissensions, f and the result was that America Was playing no part in tbe great work of reconstruction. That was a calamity. In France, there had been rive Governments, and in Italy four. That was not beneficial to the country. NAVY AVIATOR MEETS DEATH. San Diego, June 12 • Lieut Louis T Barin. navy aviator, attached to the Pacific fleet air detachment on the U.S.S. Aroostook, was instantly killed this morning when the navy airplane he was piloting, and an army airplane were in collision over Rockwell Field, the United States army air station here. Machinists' Mate George MoCombs, who was in the navy plane with Lieut Barin, was slightly injured, while Cadet Jos T Walker, who was piloting the army plane, and Corp Roy Francis, who was in the army airplane as a passenger, escaped uninjured.