MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1919, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

(AUSTRALIAN A’ N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] A SHORT STRIKE, i (Received this day at 8.15 a.m.) i LONDON, May 13, (Delayed). 1 Owing to a strike of dairy farmers in Cornwall against Official priors, the local Food Committee have issued notices demanding delivery or otherwise milk will be requisitioned. The farmers uiiani. , measly yielded.

KHAKI BANK BOBBERS. I COPENHAGEN, March 26. Nearly £75.000, says a Berlin telegram has been stolen from the Reiqhs bank branch at Euskirchen (15 miles south-west of Bonn), by five robbers, wearing British uniform, i Tlie thieves gagged the officials, and made off, it is stated, in the direction of Bonn and Cologne in British motor-ambulances.

WOMAN DICTATOR. ; ZURICH, March 26. | Mme. Lacobleva, one of the butchers of the Bolshevist regime at Petrograd, i bar herself been tried and shot, ac--1 cording to information which has reached Zurich..

Though only 22 years of age, she was appointed president of the special commission for fighting the counter-revo-tion, and signed hundreds of death warrants. Some months ago she was dismissed from office and is believed to have been tried for abuse of her powers and disobedience, of the orders of the Commissioners of the People.