NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1920, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

MILLIONAIRE CREW. NEW YORK, June 2G. At least seven Danish millionaires were included in a volunteer crew of 125 bankers, lawyers, and business men who helped to bring the Scandinavian-Amcri-can liner Frederik VIII. (11,850 tons) into port yesterday, according to Captain R. Gotsche, the vessel’s commander. The volunteers were all members of the “Social Service Workers’’ organised among business and professional men in Denmark to combat shipping strikes, which are becoming increasingly frequent since the passage of the law permitting strikers to collect 80 per cent of their wages pending the settlement of their disputos. Captain Gotsche declined to make public the names of any of the volunteers, stating that they did not desire publicity but shipped as able seamen purely out of a spirit of patriotism. On the voyage over they received the same, wages as the regular crew, occupied the crew’s quarters, stoked the vessel, and did whatever other tasks were assigned them.

SPIRITUALIST 'PEST. NEW YORK, June 26. Believers in spiritualism, particularly those who uphold the theory of voluntary rather than spontaneous messages from the dead, have an opportunity of putting their faith to a supreme test through the death of Dr James H. Hyslop, founder of the American .Society of Psychical Research, which occurred yesterday at his home in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. ® About 12 years ago, in the early life of the society, a number of members, including Dr Hyslop, each wrote a. note to remain unopened until the spirit .if a dead member revealed the contents to a survivor. Some of. the writers have since died, but no message has been reported from them by any of the survivors. Dr Hyslop explained that this was probably duo to their failing interest in spiritualism or to the inability spirits to reveal themselves without the assistance of a medium. Dr Hyslop maintained His interest in spiritualism until the last. The “note” survivors feel his spirit will make a special effort to carry out the Compact.

CONSUL’S SACRIFICE. TOKIO, June 26. The Government is preparing a full statement for the Press of the events in March at Nicolaievsk, [at the mouth of the Amur, in Far Eastern Siberia], together with the latter massacre, in May. The public and, up to the last few days, the Government were quite in the dark as to what actually happened at Nicolaievsk, although the gravest reports reached the world six days after the slaughter by the Bolsheviks, euphemising styled “partisans.” Even to-day the Russians assert that the massacres have been exaggerated, in spite of the long and graphic stories of Japanese journalists aor-onipunying the naval expedition. But there is con Urination of the tragic and patriotic end of Consul Isbitla, who sltfit bis pregnant wife, his sou and daughter, and” then, with Naval Commander Miyake, shot himself and was incinerated in the burning budding. The .realisation of the truth in Japan has led to a burning desire for justice. Events in the political centres of Siberia show the treachery of parties and partisans, and the tragedy of Nicolaievsk would be a commonplace if Japan withdrew the only stable force there.

GIRL KILLED ON ALPS, VEVEY, June 20. A party of nine young girls left Rouveret, on Lake Geneva, on Saturday evening at six o’clock to climb Gra.mmont and followed the ordinary path until close to Tanay, when, seeking a shorter route, they got lost among the precipitous slopes overlooking St. Gingo] ph. While they were climbing a gully from which there was no outlet, an avalanche of stones fell, and Mile. Feller, a medical student, was killed by a huge rock which pushed her body over a procipice. Another girl was injured. Several girls hurried back to Bouvcret to seek help. Later a storm broke, hut during the night a- search party rescued the remaining girls suffering from cold.