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[l'Klt PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COP YltloHT.] CHINESE RAT LAVA Y. WASHINGTON, October 3. It, is reported that China has offered a .Japanese Company a hundred million yen, to construct a. railway lietween Chaochu and Manchnng. Ai JAPANESE DISASTER. TYPHOON AND FLOODS. r ‘ 'IIRUTEII’s” iklf.oram . J TOR 10, Oetoher 3. The most destructive typhoon and llood in twenty years lias destroyed thousands of buildings. There are forty thousand people homeless and a hundred dead. A tidal wave caned serious inundations. LA FRIER- RESIGNS. [ ‘'P’.CUT Pit’s” TELEGRAM.] OTTAWA, October 3. ■Sir "Wilfred Laurier has resigned the Liberal leadership. SWEDEN’S CABINET. [AUSTRALIAN Sr N.Z.. ‘CAULK ASSOCIATION] fßeceived This Dnv at noon.) STOCKHOLM', Oct. 3 The King is endeavouring to form a coalition Government of all parties.
CANADIAN POLITICS. OTTAWA, Oct. 3. The Liberal Party has not decided whether to accept Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s resignation of the leadership. Colonel Balhuityiie, a Liberal C'onseriptionist, has been sworn in os a AJinistor of the Coalition Government. FRENCH BARQUE LOST. RIO JANEIRO, Oct. 3. A Brazilian ship has landed the crew of the French barque Barritz which was burned at sea us the result of explosions among the cargo.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1917, Page 4
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