JUCE CHINA VAIS
COAL MINE
EXPLOSION DISASTER
Sofia To-day.
Forty miners were trapped be neath the surface following an explosion which occurred yester- day in a coal mine în South Bul- garia.
Thirty-one of the men have: been rescued but the others, in- cluding the mine manager, are still missing.
Little hope is now held out of their being rescued. Trans- Ocean
R.A.F. CREW'S NORTH SEA ADVENTURE
London, To-day.
TRER
BRITAIN'S APPROACH ON ABYSSINIA
London, To-day.
The British Charge d'Affaires in Rome, Mr. E. M. B. Ingram, has been instructed to enter into conversations with the Italian Foreign Office regarding the Abyssinian question, it is stated here.
Political circles in London believe that Mr. Ingram has enquired whe ther Italy would be prepared to re- turn to Geneva and resume her nor- mal activities in the League.
It is stated that Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, gave an evasive reply, pointing out that Italy would desire to raise the ques- tion of the Spanish civil war at Geneva in order to obtain recogni- tion of General Franco as a belli-
gerent.-1 Trans-Ocean.
Appeal For Blina Girls
The crew of a Royal Air Force fyingboat which made a forced landing in the North Sea yester-! day and was drifting helplessly V.D.MA. acknowledge with grate- The Christ Church Group of the for some hours have safely land-ful thanks the following donations ed at Scarborough.
towards the eleventh annual outing for the inmates of the Industrial They had been rescued by a Dutch Home for Blind Girls which is to be fishing boat and came ashore wear- held on Saturday, 25th September: ing clothes and wooden clogs bor-Previously acknowledged
$27. rowed from the Dutchmen.
The Rev. L. L. and Mrs. Nash 10. Well-wisher
Mrs. Whitfield
Total
5.
2
$14
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While they were taking part in exercises in the North Sea, one of the two engines of the flyingboat Further donations and loan of failed and after the machine had cars are solicited and may be sent limped along for some miles on the addressed to Mr. E S. Cunning- remaining engine, a petrol pipeham, C/o Colonial Secretary's Of broke. Drifting on the edge of the fice, Hong Kong. The organisers Dogger Bank with a gale of wind are, of course, fully aware that the and very heavy seas threatening to local public are greatly concerned A NEW KIND OF THRILLER IN A NEW KIND OF SETTING! swamp the boat, the crew had to over, and their attention directed wait one and half hours before ajto, the state of affairs now exist- Dutch fishing boat came to the rescuefing in Shanghai and North China, and it was then nearly two hours but at the same time let us not for- before a rope could be got to them get the existence of these unfortun- The first tow rope broke but even-late ones for whom these outings tually the flyingboat was got in tow are organised annually during the and the fishing boat headed for autumn. Scarborough. It was getting darkį
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Mrs. P. L. Moreland, of Shanghai, ing boat and put the wireless out accompanied by her two children, of action, so the officer in command Prentiss and Fatsy, arrived in the decided to get his men to safety Colony this morning in the S. S on the fishing boat. They roped Sphinx The children are going to themselves together and jumped into school, here, and Mrs. Moreland the sea to be hauled 30 yards will make an indefinite stay in the through the waves to the resene Colony, residing with Mr. and Mrs. ship-British Wireless.
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