MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1918, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

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JAPANEs STEAMER AFIRE.

OF VANCOUVER. ISLAND

(Received This Day, at 12.65, a.m.) VANCOUVER, May 23. The Japanese steamer Burmah Maru of ten thousand tons is afire off the west const of Vancouver Island. A wireless report states help is near.• >- FOOD FOR BELGIANS. (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 23. : President Wilson approves of Mr Hoover’s plan to send ninety thousand tons of foodstuffs to the starving Belgians, in ninety days. , CHINA-JAP TREATY. FaUBTRAUAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION <£ REUTER. J PEKIN, May 23. Tiie Military delegates have completed and signed the details of tho China-Japanese secret plan for co-op-eration in- Siberia. Recently the Chi- • nesc people were hostile to the idea of intervention, but they are now* completely indifferent.

ANARCHLST PLOTS. I AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLJB ASSOCIATION] A REUTER.] BERNE, May 23. Bombs of enormous power and many boxes of explosives were found in tho Linimat river at Zuiribh. Investigation shows that the explosives were sent to Italian Anarchists from Germany accompanied by minute instructions to blow up several of the munition factories and electrical works. There have been numerous arrests, at Zurich, Lausanne, and Lucerne including the notorious Anarchist Bertoni. RACING REDUCED. f AUSTRALIAN A N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION REUTER.] LONDON May 23. Owing to tho strain on the railways tjie War Cabinet has decided that racing must be restricted to Newmarket after May. The Jockey Club have acquiesced and have cancelled all other meetings MILLERS .WAGE INCREASED. * LONDON, May 23. A conference of Lancashire millers has granted twenty-five per cent . crease in wages to all operatives.