MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

<By Electrio Telegraph—CoDyright, i

GOVERNMENT 1 PREPARING. (Received This Day at 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 7. Government is evidently preparing for the worst in case the miners leaders prove obdurate, and has begun organising the distribution of foods. In the event (of a strike the Government has in view the partial stoppage of the railways and is arranging for road trails port.

v A CABLE FISHED UP. (Received this day at 12.25 o.m) ' LONDON, September 7,. A message from Copenhagen reports a gutter has returned to port with eleven hundred fathoms of cable aboard. The men declare they caught the cable in their fishing tackle off a desolate spoton the coast of Jutland, and were eonv infeed they had accidentally found a German spy cable. They hauled in as much as tho cutter could carry and then cut the cable, marking the spot with a buoy. The British Admiralty suggests that the fishermen hooked a cable belonging to the Great Danish Northern Company. 6

MUNITIONS BLOWN UP. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m' BERLIN, September 7. f At supply train for French troops in Upper Silesia wss held up at Erfurt goods station (by the rnilwaymen’s committee. A million rounds - of rifle am • munition were unloaded and the cases blown up. The Imperial authorities are already proceeding against the culprits.

AMBASSADOR AT PARIS. (Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ♦ LONDON, September 7. The newspapers state Lord Harding ex-Viceroy of India lias been appointed to succeed Lord Derby as Ambassador at Paris.

DOCKERS’ MISTAKE. LONDON, Sept. 6. There was a camedy of errors at Bootle owing to the dockers mistaking disinfectant for munitions. They refused to load the fumigating machines marked O.H.M.S. and labelled “Danzig.” Thus the ship was held up. When the Bootle dockers proudly informed the Council of Action? what they had done the Council telegraphed instructions to remove the embargo, saying that the cases contained fumigating machines only used to destroy verio germ and prevent typhoid.