THE CHINA MAIL, MARGI 31, 1937.
AVALANCHE
LARGE PARTY
VERWHELMED IN YUGO-SLAVIA
Belgrade, To-day.
Nine are feared to have been killed when a huge avalanche crashed down the mountain side and overwhelmed a part of 28 skiers in the Slovene Karawanken Mountains yesterday.
THE PARTY, ALL OF WHOM WERE EXPERT SKIERS BE-
LONGING TO THE SLOVENE ALPINE CLUB, WERE DES CENDING THE SLOPE OF A MOUNTAIN WHEN WITH A DEEP RUMBLE HUNDREDS OF TONS OF SNOW, EARTH ROCKS SUDDENLY HURTLED DOWN UPON THEM.
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DISASTER
Durban Deep Mine Disaster
na-
*Johannesburg, To-day. One European and $4 tives were killed as a result of a two-decker' cage crashing 5,000 feet to the bottom of the shaft in the Durban deep mine as a result of over-winding.
The cage came to rest in thirty· feet of water.-Reuter.
FRENCH RAIL DISASTER:
TRAGIC SCENE
Glasgow Shipyard Strike
Complete Walkout Of Engineers
Glasgow, To-day. The strike of 2,000 engineers in the Glasgow shipyards, which be- gan during the week-end, was com- of plete yesterday when not one the men turned up to work.
The strikers are demanding a rise of a penny an hour in wages, Five hundred labourers are also thrown out of work by the strike. As the shipyards at present are warking on an important Govern- Three were killed and 60 serious-ment contract, it is expected that intervene authorities will ly injured in a ghastly railway dis-the
shortly for settlement of the dis- WEREaster last night.
The accident occurred when the pute.-Reuter. Paris-Bordeaux express, travelling at over 75 miles an hour, ran off the rails near Cabannes.
THE ENTIRE PARTY WAS ENGULFED, THOUGH THE FACT THAT THEY WERE NOT IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THE AVALANCHE SAVED THE LIVES OF 19 OF THEM.
RESCUE. WORK BEGAN IMMEDIATELY AND 19 EXTRACTED ALIVE, SEVERAL OF THEM, HOWEVER, WITH SERIOUS INJURIES.
After hours of anguished dig-POPE PIUS
ging in the snow, two bodies
were recovered, and it is practi- AND THE cally certain that the remaining seven also met their death!
The skiers were competing in the annual Easter holiday winter sports contests and the tragedy, the first of the season, has cast the entire dis- deep gloom over trict.TM
All further winter sports conTM tests have been cancelled.Trans- Ocean.
CHINESE LEADERS
HONOURED
Order Of Brilliant Jade.
CORONATION
Paris, To-day.
Four cars crashed right over the embankment and were splintered to matchwood on the road many feet below.
CARDINAL MAY BE of the night when squads of hastily-
SENT
Pope It is understood that the has decided to send a special mis- sion to London for the Coronation.
He may even appoint a Cardinal resident in Rome as his Envoy Ex- traordinary. If he does he will be breaking with the tradition that the Holy See does not send a prince of the Church to a coronation, even if it is that a Catholic sovereign.
It is pointed out that relations between the Vatican and the Court fof St. James are exceedingly cor- Shanghai, To-day.
dial and that the King is represent- The National Government officially ed at the Holy See by a Minister- announced yesterday the conferment Plenipotentiary. It would be a great upon Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the pleasure to the Pope if he could see Foreign Minister, of the First Class his way to send a Cardinal,
The Envoy Extraordinary would Jade Medal, and upon General Ho Ying-ching, the War Minister, Ad-not take part in the religious cere- miral Chen Shao-fun, the Naval mony in Westminster Abbey.
According to custom, the papal Minister, and Mr. Yu Fei-pang, the Minister of Communications, of the envoy will present to King George an autographed letter of congratula- Second Class Jade Medal.
Yesterday, the National Govern-tion from the Pope. Mr. Eden, as ment officially appointed Dr. Wang Foreign Secretary, will be present Chung-hui, Foreign Minister, to act The King will reply to the as President of the Executive Yuan, letter in person.
General Chu Shao-liang, Pacifica-
papal
Bulgarian Elections
Sofla, To-day.
tion Commissioner of Kansu to act as Governor of Kansu, and General Ou Yung-chu, member of the Na-
The Government Party scored an tional Military Advisory Council, as Secretary-General of the Kwang- overwhelming success in the Bul- have tung Provincial Government. garian local elections which Our Own Correspondent...
just beer completed. Trang-Ocean.
Tragic scenes were enacted most organised rescue workers collected the mutilated bodies of the passen- gers from the wreckage. Trans- Ocean.
ITALIAN HONOUR FOR PRINCE PAUL
Belgrade, To-day! The King of Italy has conferred the highest Italian honour, the Or
the der of the Annunciation, on Yugo-Slavian Regent, Prince Paul.
GERMANY AND CORONATION
Von Blomberg To Represent Herr Hitler
Berlin, To-day.
It is officially announced that Herr Hitler will be represented at the Coronation of King George by the Commander-in-Chief of the Ger- . man Army, Field-Marshal von Blom- berg.
The German delegation will also include the Commander of the Ger- man North Sea. Fleet, Admiral Otto Schulze, and the Commander of the Air Force, Major-General Stumpff.
-Trans-Ocean and Reuter:
has
The King asked Prince Paul to
The Nanking Government accept the Order "as a symbol ex- ing between the two Royal families films will not be allowed to be shown pressing the deep friendship exist-announced that Cantonese "talkie” and between Italy and Yugo-Slavia." in theatres throughout the country
as from April 16,
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