OVERSEAS ITEMS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 24 May 1928, Page 7

OVERSEAS ITEMS

Titer© have been 120 todies now recovered! at Mathera, of which 92 .have been identified, but there are at' least 85 still missing. Hope is held for some of the remaining entombed men, owing to the discovery of a miner, Frank Buksha, who was found sitting on a. rail. "Where have you been?" he asked. "I have been hero three days now. If you hUd not come soon something would have choked me." He had sufficient strength to leave the stretcher upon reaching the* surface. Relief squads are working frantically. * * The Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed the appeal of Kennedy and Browne against their dcixth sentences. Lord! Hewart, Chief Justice, said the case was as plain as a pikestaff. * # With reference to a suggestion that the League of Nations investigate the Hamburg poison episode, it is send-officially stated that the manufacture of phosgene is allowed, under the Implements of War Law. in factories specially licensed by the Ministry of Trade. Whether the Hamburg gas conformed to the lawwill bo the subject of an inquiry, and if'the law has been infringed a prosecution will fplkw. * * Following consultations with Sir John Simon (Liberal) and Mr Henderson (Labour), the Home Secretary (Sir W. Joynson-Hicks) tabled an amended motion limiting the special inquiry' to the police interrogation of Miss Savage. The motion will be debated in Both Houses.