CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18532, 14 July 1922, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

dERMAN MINES EXPLODE. BERLIN, July 12. It is reported that fifty men were killed by an explosion in a mines magazine at Cuxhaven. The railway was damaged. CLERGY EXCUSED. HELSINGFORS, July 12. The Petrograd Soviet resolved not to carry out the death sentences on the"clergy, but the sentences on social revolutionaries wil remain unchanged. ALLEGED FRAUD. VANCOUVER, July 12. Mcßride, wanted in Australia on fraudulent stock charges, is still held in custody at New Orleans. His wife has been released. The United States Commission says that a mishap to the papers at the British Embassy was responsible for the delay in extradition. SPANISH TRAIN DISASTER. MADRID, July 12. ’ In the train collision forty were killed and a hundred wounded. (An earlier message stated that a (Tain collision occurred at Paredes de Nava.) THE TIPTON EXPLOSION. LONDON, July 12. Knowles has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Chadwick was discharged. In March last an explosion occurred in a factory full of girls at Tipton. ten of the girls being killed and others severely 'injured, several eventually dying. The girls were engaged in removing powder from tons of cartridges, and it was stated that at the time of the explosion the floor was covered with powder. A sensational'development was the arrest of Knowles, the husband of the factory owner, and Chadwick, the manager, who were charged with murder. The deaths in the explosion totalled eighteen. ,

EMPIRE COTTON GROWING. LONDON, July 12. The House of Comomns read a first time the Empire Cotton-growing Corporation Bill, providing for a levy of sixpence on spinners for every 5001 b of cotton towards the funds of the corporation. JAPAN’S DIRIGIBLE DESTROYED. TOKIO, July 12. " Following a gas explosion, Japan’s only dirigible was totally destroyed by fire inside a shed. It was recently purchased from England at a high price. R. L. STEVENSON'S LETTERS. LONDON, July 12. The collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s letters and manuscript of the juvenile play “Monmouth” have been sold at Christie’s for £782, of which the play fetched £255. All were purchased on behalf of an American collector, with the exception of one letter. BEVAN SENSATION. VIENNA, July 12. Bevan was sentenced to three days for giving a false name. He was acquitted on charges of using a false passport and for resisting the police.