LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 2609, 13 April 1926, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

* SALONIKA REVOLT. INSTIGATORS ARRESTED. . (By Cable — Press Association) LONDON, April 32. - / An Athens correspondent states that the nine alleged instigators of the Salonika revolt, including Police Chief Pakridis, have, been arrested and transferred to Athens.. Two hundred, including women and children, were either killed or wounded by air bombs, which both sides freely used. . Major Ivarafoufas, whose movement of troops signalled the outbreak, says the arrest was due to the old enmity of General 'Zafiriou who provocatively ordered patrols to encroach orj his encampment. Karafoufas denies, it is a Monarch' ist revolt. • •- , AIR DISASTER. TWO MACHINES COLLIDE. FIVE KILLED. (By Cable—Press Association). ... LONDON, April 12. Five airmen were burned to death / when two aeroplanes collided in midair and fell to the ground in flames at the Henlow aerodrome in Bedfordshire. It was the worst disaster which has occurred in the Air Force since ,the European War. A giant Viekers-Vimy machine, pil - oted by Flying-Officer Lacey, who returned from leave to-day, and carrying three mechanics, had been engaged ip parachute practice. If was landing when an Avro machine, piloted by Fly-ing-Officer Scott, took off, and the ma» chines collided at an altitude of a, few< hundred feet. , ■ The machines became interlocked, * turned a complete • somersault and crashed in flames. The live occupants of the two aeroplanos were burned to death. , ~, . _ Spectators expressed the opinion that the pilot of the aeroplane which was rising- became blinded by the rays of the sun. , \ ? : 1 ; The bodies could not be recognised. EARTHQUAKE IN AZORES., . A TOWN DESTROYED. THOUSANDS HOMELESS, * , (By Cable—Press Association) MEDKID, April 12. An .earthquake destroyed Parta, capital of Fayal, an island of the Azores. I ';, if Thousands are homeless. WIRELESS WONDERS. ? “HELLO AUSTRALIA.” GREETINGS TO N.Z. '[• / (By Cable—Press Association) ] OAKLAND (Gal.), April ill Mr R. Caerrington, publisher of (he * ‘ Oakland California Post Inquirer),” - announces that lie will say “Hello Atm- I tralia” and greet ’New Zealand on the > 20th May. The messages will be broadcasted to Australia and New, Zealand at 4 in the morning, equal to 10 o’clock on the night pf May 21, Australian time. A 240-wave length will be used. ' ' • . >. Representatives of Rotary ' -And Kiwanis Clubs and civic bodies will give addresses, and these will be fol-' lowed by vocal and instrumental selections, J&w Zealand and Australian radions owning three or five valve sets are expected to be able to hear the programme. ' SEVERE EARTHQUAKE. ‘ RECORDED AT NEW YORK. i NEW YORK, April 12. A- severe earthquake, believed to be 10,000 miles away> perhaps off the south-west coast of Australia, was recorded between 3 a.m, and 5.20 to-day. (The above probably has a connection with the earthquake reported from the Azores). DEMANDS TO THE RIFFS. BY FR A N CQ-SP ANISH NEGOTIATORS. SOME CONSIDERED PREPOSTER- , ous. f LONDON, April-12.. The 3j)aily News’ Tangier correspondent states that Franeo-Spanish , negotiators are demanding that Abdul Krim must recognise both the temporal and Spiritual p'ower of the Sultan of Morocco, complete disarmament of the Riffs, military policing of Riff territory by the Franeo-Spanish, Spanish occupation, of strategic points and economic relations regarding the fertile valleys of the - North of Ouergha. The Riffs state, Krim will consent to .first demand and declare the preposterous. ~ .