Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 769, 16 September 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

WRECK REPORT DENIED. Tim B ”j** Government declares that neither the submarine Voikoff nor the destroyer Trotsky was lost in recent _torms. The Russian Fleet returned to port intact.—A. and N.Z.P.A. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. —An explosion led to the collapse of a petrol Store at Parma, Italy, over which many families were living. The bodies of * persons have been recovered and others were injured. The last person rescued alive was a little girl who had been buried for nine hours.— A.P.A-U.S EMPIRE'S WAR TOLL. The o? a HL_ Teleerraph " says the total of the Empire's casualties in the Great , varies slightly as errors are de- . The latest records show a total of 1.089.919. including 15,983 men „ mercantile marine who lost hndNZP hroush enemy action.—A. .INDIAN- COMMISSION.—The “Sunth« T Ti i? es ’ 343,8 Jt understands that me Indian Commission under the iWWnianship of Sir John Simon will n 10rt that full Dominion status is not practicable at present, and that «»Jf OVe^ nrnent must be extended in Stages.—A. and N.Z.P.A. CANADA AND KRITAIN—If is rejor tT d nK! at 1116 C.ord Privy Seal. Mr. land wits on>as ' is returnin S to EngCan»al lth ,£ n . a imeement under which BritißS W: , buy vast shipments of teed m °2 a in return for a guaranand nlpa. for Canadian wheat.-A. ACKNOWLEDGED lost.— of the steamer Junee retha a * f* 11 ring the week he searched \iK« C ° as l ne from Point Cloates to found no trace of the Danißh ship Kobenhavn. The Rnoo P°' v being continu€‘d to the th« P However, the loss of anti T k / 3benhav n is now acknowledged search is to be abandoned at the end of this week. FOUND DEAD.—The body \vain« Voman was found hanging in a Stnt ?5’ r T° 0m at p od<l*ngton Railway tliat Lo P don - It was identified as is Brebner, aged 50. who a to have been the widow of wart?!i >OUr “ e doc tor. who died in the had o ?k' .Betters found show that she a manuscript of a book Publish ber husband to several aceen**? 8 ' but that it had not been °epted. —a. and N.Z.P.A. EglTigH COAL TRADE.—In antito b« legislation which is shortly ,^ uce(l for the British mining > _ th e Central Marketing ComXfo* thp Owners’ Ascipj e n yesterdav accepted in prince for the co-ordination of marketing schemes. This r ** r,| *«tirg the output and n',' w hi‘ np Prices. The scheme will ferred to the districts, and ruit r^c.' .meeting of the Central ComP- ■ rj or ■- ■'» held in a fortnight.— • == —uti Wireless.