GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 18 June 1924, Page 11

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

About 48 were killed in the explosion on the battleship Mississippi.

The record number of 345 suicides was reported in Vienna for May. There are G 1 so far for June. •

It is stated that M. Leet, of the Soviet delegation to Britain, is resolved to seek a basis of understanding with the Democratic elements of the Reichstag.

Two were killed and 40 injured at the Berlin railway station as tho result of a passenger train from Magdelburg. crashing into the rear ol a stationary suburban train.

The International Labour Conference opens at Genova this week. Approxiinately fifty States, including Germany are participating. The Australian delegates have arrived.

In London a conference of the workers’ union and the amusement employers at Wembley agreed to wage increases representing generally an advance of 10s weekly on the existing minimum, and other concessions.

It is rumoured from Berlin that the ex-Kaiser is shortly becoming a father. If tin’s is true Princess Hcrmionc does not wish it to he known, as she has wriiten to a friend stating that lie confinement to her bedroom is due to rhemnat ken.

At San Pedro (California) a crowd of sailors and civilians, angered by disnareging remarks allegedly made b■Radicals wrecked the Industrial "Workers' of the World bad while an entertainment was progressing. Ino girls, who were serving coffee, were scalded when the coffee urn oveitnrned. A man resisting the nttneke"s was wounded. The crowd broke the w'ndnws anti doors and threw the inr-rbt-nre and fixtures into the street, whore they were burned.