IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17107, 31 March 1921, Page 7

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

A London message say? the Newcastle Bonch granted Tommy Burns a publichouse license, tho clerk remarking h© ought to be a good "chucker-oufc."

A Delhi message says 700 prisoners escaped from the Rajsliahi gaol. They overpowered the warders, snatched their guns, and rushed the gates. One hundred and ninety have been recaptured.

The three remaining war-time_ Ministries—Food, Shipping, and Munitions.. Will expire to-day. Coal control will also cease to-daj. leaving only railways control, which will expires in August.

A message from Jerusalem says that serious Eastertide riots occurred at Haifa, following on an Arab demonstration. One Christian was killed, and eight Jews were wbtmded. A state of siege was proclaimed. Order is now restored.

The Edinburgh Courts have granted an interim injunction deferring action tn the case of four Wards in Glasgow which went "dry" in November. The applicants for injunction alleged that there wore irregularities at the polls.

French members of the inter-Allied Commission have received a number of threats recently, and, as apparently the outcome of the threats, one motor-car dashed -into a rope stretched arross the road and overturned. The French chauffeur wast killed and two Treasury officials were injured.

A Chicago message sfiys ten people were killed, and 60 injured, and many house? destroyed by an explosion which wrecked the Weil Paper Company's fllrwt. The'damage is; estimated, at 1,000,000 dollars; It is thought rant a gas'leak was the cars", but the police ate not Dismissing the bomb theory-, as the district has been the scene of a bitter political war, which has already resulted irt several deaths. '