LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3146, 4 December 1923, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

FLOODS IN UPPER EGYPT TERRIFIC RAINSTORMS. VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY. (By Cable—Press Association). CAIRO, Nov. MO. Terrific rainstorms have swept away whole villages and rendered hundreds homeless. In the Assuan region railway lines and telegraphs have been destroyed. The inhabitants of the flooded villages are in pitiable distress and hick food and shelter. The Government is despatching tents and food from Cairo. A WOMAN HUSTLER. PUSHING ROUND THE WORLD. (By Cable —Press Association). LONDON, Nov. MO. A woman arrived at Southampton yesterday and showed remarkable hustle. She has already travelled MOOO miles to England. Arriving by the Majestic she rushed ashore, hailed a taxi-cab, and speeded to another part of the docks, caught the steamship bound for Capetown, arriving aboard a few minutes before her departure on a six thousand mile voyage. DISASTER IN ITALY. LAKE DAM BURSTS. SIX HUNDRED PEOPLE MISSING. (By Cable —Press Association). (Received 11 a.m.) ROME, December 2. Owing to torrential rain in the province of Bergamo, Northern Italy, a dam on Lake Godcno burst, and the escaped waters destroyed villages, swept away factories, bridges, and railways. The loss of life was heavy. So far six hundred are missing. EGYPT ALSO FLOODED. RAILWAY AND TELEGRAPH DESTROYED. HUN DR EDS HOMELESS. (By Cable —Press Association). (Received 11.30 a.m.) CAIRO, Dec. 1. Terrific rainstorms have swept away whole villages and rendered hundreds homeless. In the Assuan region railway lines and telegraphs have boon destroyed. The inhabitants of the flooded villages are in pitiable distress and lack food and shelter. The Government is dispatching tents and food from Cairo. COAL PIT DISASTER. forty men killed. (By Cable—Press Association). (Received 12 noon). LONDON, Nov. 3. Forty men have been killed in a disaster in a coal pit at. Sheffield.