BRITISH DEFENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20463, 1 April 1938, Page 7

BRITISH DEFENCE

VALUE OF AGRICULTURE PREPAREDNESS FOR WAR COUNTRY IN BETTER STATE (Official Wireless) Received April i, li a.m.) RUGBY, March 31 The Minister of Agriculture, speaking to the Cenlral Landowners’ Association, emphasised the importance of livestock farming in the country’s ilefence policy. "In respect to the emergency agri-cultural-plans for war we are in an infinitely belter state of preparedness than in 1914," he said. "The Government plan is to develop commodity prosperity and the price structure of agriculture, believing that if farmers are given a chance they will produce food as it is required." ___ BLIZZARD IN ALBERTA TRAINS AND BUSES MAROONED FATALITY FEARED United press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright CALGARY, March 30. A blizzard in the drought area of Alberta snowbound a train and marooned 14 children in a school bus for 24 hours. They were rescued in an exhausted condition. Hundreds of cattle and sheep have perished. Mr A. H. Goodall, a barrister, who is missing, is believed to have been frozen to death in a -snowbound motorcar. TORNADO IN AMERICA 19 KILLED, 200 INJURED A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION United press A.«sn.—Elec. Tel. CoDyrtyh KANSAS CITY, March 30 Nineteen persons were killed and 200 injured by a tornado which -swept across five States in the south-west, destroying whole villages and piling up buildings and wreckage for miles. Several school houses collapsed, but in most instances the pupils miraculously escaped alive. The tornado lashed Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Central Illinois. The storm was accompanied by rain and hail. Electric power was cut off and in many cases surgeons at hospitals iperated upon injured persons by the light of electric torches. DEATH-ROLL OF 27 HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE INJURED MANY BUILDINGS LEVELLED United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received April 1, 11.25 a.m.) KANSAS CITY, March-31 The deaths as a result of the tornado now total 27. There were hundreds injured. All but two buildings at South Pekin, Illinois, were levelled. National guardsmen rushed to the city to assist those who had been injured and to prevent looting. The path of the storm stretched for 600 miles.