LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 2607, 8 April 1926, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

OMINOUS SILENCE. NO NEWS OF WILKINS. AN ILL-FATED EXPEDITION. > (By Cable—Press Association). VANCOUVER, April 5. , Some anxiety is fe.lt at Fairbanks*' owing to the silence of Captain WiU kins, who has not been heard front since Friday night. He was expected to return to Fairbanks on ■Eastei’ Sunday, but has not appeared, although the weather was perfect for flying. A party,.which left Fairbanks by dog sledge for Barrow, also .struck trouble , after crossing the Edicott They wirelessed that they 1 were short of food for the dogs, and unless relief was sent soon they must shoot some pf tile animals. i The leader of this party. Mr Malcolm Smith, set out for help and and has not since been heard of. LATER. '' NEW YORK, April 6. Captain G. H. Wilkins, leader of the expedition which is preparing for a flight across the North Pole, is «safe. A wireless message from Fairbanks, Alaska,reports that" ho has returned to Circle City, situated about 150 miles north-west of Fairbanks, on his l’ettffh flight from Point Barrow. , / ' ... j: TERRIFIC TORNADO N.S.W. TOWNSHIP STRUCK. TWO CHURCHES DESTROYED. v-fCtiuif’Afe “„! ;‘ vV : (By Telegraph-Press Association) SYDNEY, April 7. Torrential rain, followed a tornado which struck Trangie, 'ruining furniture and other effects in unroofed buildings. * The tornado could be seen approach-* ing half ail hour before- it struck the town. After levelling a. number of build-. ings the path of the storm and missed the main business portion. The , Church of , England, the* Roman Oath* olio Church, and the Masonic Hall were among the places razed to the ground. , NO TRACE OF MISSING CREW. BRISBANE, this day. No further trace has been discover' ed of the missing crew of the Donigo, ATTEMPT ON MUSSOLINI’S LIFE. ' BY AN ENGLISHWOMAN. ROME, April 7. While Mussolini was leaving an in-* ternational congress surgery an elderly woman fired a revolver almost point blank, wounding him slightly in the nose. -Mussolini was quite calm and immediately gave directions with a view to preventing any disturbance. The woman was with difficulty rescued from the incensed crowd and taken to prison. She is an Englishwoman named Violet Albina Gibson. The news of the attempt on Mussolini spread rapidly throughout the city* and caused profound indignation.'' among all sections of the populace, eS- v pocially in the central districts. Feeling ran high and a number of young people mareh&dffo the offices of the opposition newspaper “Monclo' 1 : where they violently protested And .damaged the plant. Theyauthorities immediately. issued strict-orders to suppress any excesses. ' . ‘ AUSTRALIAN. CRICKETERS, The Australian cricketers.have arrived fit Naples after an uneventful, trip —-all well, TROUBLE AT DELHI. . DELHI, April 7. ' A serious situation has. arisen at Gourirore, 25 miles from Calcutta, where several thousand mill operatives struck in the afternoon following a reported fatal assault on a coolie by a European. The situation is considered extremely grave, assaults ' being committed on Europeans, four of whom were Injured. Armed police have been summoned. ' AUSTRALIAN NEWS. SYDNEY,' this day. The effect of the amalgamation of the deposed executive and the industrial sections of the Australian Labour Party, conference,' will be >to?; prevent the militants, led by Beasley and Garden, gaining'control of the labour machine,, which it i,s contended would mean imperiling the life of the Government. If the i amalgamation is successful the Australian Workers’ Union will dominating influence on the new Australiaxi r Labour Party executive.-