CABLEGRAMS

Western Star, 10 April 1934, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

TIDAL WAVES. DISASTER IN NORWAY. .CRAG CRASHES INTO FIORD. .VILLAGES WRECKED. OSLO, April 7. Forty people; including a family of nine, were killed when a . huge crag clashed into Korsnaes Fiord, creating three tidal waves which swept inland for half a inile. Two small fishing villages were overwhelmed and the ground was • littered with debris of houses and ■ boats. It is feared that other villages were also destroyed. A later message states that it is believed that over 50 are dead. Forty bodies have been recovered in the village of Tajford and there are only aeveii survivors " in the village of Fjoearaa. . The crag fell 6000 feet, causing scenes _6O terrible • that : eye-witnesses declared that they believed the day of judgment had arrived. Waves 30 feet high hurled motor-boats and other vessels against the houses, many occupants being trapped in the wreckage. A great column of flame shot up when the waves reached an electricity transformer. A mother with three .children in her

arms climbed out of a window on' to the roof, but rising waters-swept them away. A father carrying his son ran up a little hill and held the boy up at arm’s length until he was submerged. The child was saved half-drowned. Residents dragged boats across country and rowed in the darkness searching for survivors. - •

The waters. subsided within 25 minutes. The. disaster is the worst in Norway for 20 years.. •

. SERIOUS RIOT. AMERICAN CITY. CESSATION OF RELIEF provisions; , ANGRY .DEMONSTRATION. MINNEAPOILS, April 6. One of the most Serious riots that has grat occurred anywhere in the country as a result of the cessation of relief provisions for the unemployed took place here to-day when, following ' the arrest of . a delegation wearing red arm bands and led by a woman on cratches as they attempted, to. enter the Town Hall to present demands for a continuation of " the civil works adminis tration and cash relief funds, a fighx between police and unemployed ensued., resulting in injury to 18 persons and the spattering of the sidewalks with blood. Three thousand demonstrators at tempted to rush upon the Town Hall only to be repeatedly repulsed; by the police, TO of whom were badly beaten by the mob. The police refrained from . employing machine-guns mounted near the building, depending chiefly on batons and tear, gas to restrain the rioters. The latter hurled paving blocks., coal ancT scrap iron. from passing vehicles, not only finding the police target, but doing considerable damag. to the Town Hall itself. A later message sttaes that with tin howls of the mob clearly audible the City Council hurriedly- voted the relief demands. , When this information was communicated to the rioters they gradually dispersed, but the ’ police. maintained a heavy cordon aroumjl the, building on rumours that a bomb outrage might be attempted.

INDIAN LEPERS. ' CALCUTTA, April 7. The danger oT wholesale leprous infection developed in Allahabad as 500 lepers walked out from the asylum three miles from the city ai a protest against a reduction, of allowance and diet. They threaten to enter the crowded city if their demands are not met. It is expected that the authorities will have to agree. STOWAWAY IN- ; COURT UNUSUAL PLEA ENTERED. LONODN, April 6. Frederick Hopkins was'remanded for a week on a charge of stowing away on the Moldavia at Fremantle. He pleaded : “It was a son’s love for his mother that made me do it. It was the only way of reaching mother, who was sick.” The prosecution said , that it had been intended to put Hopkins ashore at Colombo, bat that he had disappeared and had left a note in bis cabin suggesting that he had committed suicide, but had been seen talking on the dick at Port Said. - . SURVIVOR FOUND. PLANE CRASH IN COLOMBIA. BOGOTA (Colombia), April 7. Newton Marshall, the sole survivor of five men in a plane which crashed while carrying a consignment of gold from the Choco Pacific mines to Rlodellin has been discovered after living on the roots of vines for two weeks in the jungle. Two others were killed in the crash and the others died of injuries.

RESCUED FROM ICE. DARING FLIGHT BY RUSSIAN. MOSCOW, April 7. In a daring flight the Soviet airman Kamanine Molokov rescued five of the marooned Cheluskin’s party after amn weeks in camp on tha ice. A rescue base is now established at Cape van Karen. TRAIL OF RUIN. -—WEST AUSTRALIAN CYCLONE. HEAVY DAMAGE IN ONSLOW. PERTH, April 8. Details of the cyclone on the northwest coast show- that iron telegraph poles were bent like candles. The damage in Onslow is estimated at £BO,OOO, mostly through the destruction of the jetty, 900 feet of which toppled into the sea. Port Hedland reports that the railway to Marble Bar is partly submerged rk4 tho train service is now suspended. 'Marble liar supplies are running short. The Tort Hedland landing ground is under water, and aeroplanes are held up at Broome. .. ■ ■

PLAGUE OF • LOCUSTS. VEGETATION ATTACKED. ADELAIDE, March 8. Swarms of locUßts are attacking all vegetation in the neighbourhood of Port Augusta. They are so thick on the roads that traffic is impeded. MIXED BATHING. SUGGESTED IRISH BAN. LONDON, April 7. Orders have been issued at the Irish Free State bathing resorts .to prevent the Irish “imitating the scandalous ways of the English.” It is suggested that mixed bathing. be prohibited.

BOAT CAPSIZES.

r , _i-s- -, THREE MEN DROWNED. ! ONE BODY WASHED ASHORE

FISHING. TRAGEDY.

WANGANUI, April 8.

The capsize of a flat-bottomed . boat off the mouth of the Waitotara river some time between Thursday and midnight, on Saturday has resulted in the loss of three lives, one European and two natives. Those lost were :

Thomas Alexander McLean, Single, aged 35.

Maketu Wereta, married, aged about 38.

Harold Hakaraia, aged about 20.

AH belonged to the Ihupuka Pa, Waitotara.

On the journey froni Wanganui to Patea on Friday the coastal vessel Kapuni, .in charge of Captain William McKinnon, diecovered- a flat-bottomed boat floating bottom up four miles to sea off the mouth of' the y Waitotara river. The boat, which is nearly 14 feet long, ivas taken to Patea and handed to the Customs officials. Its discovery led to investigations, which revealed that McLean and the two Maoris; had proceeded to the mouth oi the river •on Thursday and had not returned.

It was ■ a usual practice -of theirs to leave the pa on periodical fishing tripe of this nature, camping at the river mouth to take advantage of favourable tides and no anxiety would be felt if they did not return for some days; A search party was organized under the direction of Constable Skinner, of Waitotara,. and at midnight on Saturday tho body of McLean was found washed ashore near the mouth of the river. The bqjlies of the two Maoris are still undiscovered and a search at various points along 'the coastline is continuing. McLean, ' who has a brother residing in Wellington, was born at Taihape in 1899. He enlisted when 16 and went overseas with the 32nd Reinforcements, winning the Military Medal.

SINGAPORE MURDER,

CANTONESE ARRESTED.

SINGAPORE, April 7.

: An.' investigation in Chinatown led the police to the. naval'base where they arrested a Cantonese for the murder of an, inspector.