MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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AFRICAN STRIKE ENDS

CAPETOWN, Sept. 13. [he Railway strike at Lorenzo Marques lias collapsed. Five hundred strikers signed on unconditionally. The Portuguese Government announces the recent arrest was made, not because the men struck, but because they disobeyed the call to the colours.

MESOPOTAMIA REPORT

C&euter’s Telegram.)

(Received* this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 13. A War Office Mesopotamia communique reports blockhouse construction is continuing in the face of consistent sniping, which' is causing sight casualtes. A column which left Baghdad on the 6th advanced without opposition over fifty miles to Abnjisrah, when they met and foi’eed hack insurgents estimated at six hundred, to Morat Canal, where they were put out of action by cavalry. The insurgent's retired towards Shafabitn, where the column arrived on the lOth, and exacted a fine of rides from hostile inhabitants. One of the murderers of Buchanan tribe was executed. Moan time three hundred insurgents attacked the p'ost left at, Abujisrali, but scattered ofi the timely appearance ©f afi aeroplane which bombed and machine gunned them. A determined insurgent attack was made on the railway station at Samarra on the lltli, but was repulsed.

PERSIAN ADVICES.

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) DELHI, Sept. 15. Advices from Teheran state no fighting has occurred' on' the right front during the last te n days. Cossacks are preparing fresh advances and have reoccupied Imammdehashim. A British column from Persia, advanced into Mesopotamia and expects to meet a column from Baghdad near Sharaban or. the 13th, thus restoring coihmunieation between Persia and Mesopotamia.

BERNARD SHAW. LONDON, September 14. Mr Bernard Sliaw, the'famous write: is superintending the coal miners’ publicity campaign in propagating the prin ciples on which the miners base their stand for cheaper coal and better pay.

SOCIALISM IN JAPAN. ...;• - TOKIO, Sept. 14. A new mysterious religion, Omatykyo, has been recently established in Japan. It is said to be an extreme form of Socialism, aiming at the destruction of the existing order. The members are mostly retired military men.

GENERAL BIRDWOOD. LONDON, Sept. 13. .. General Birdwood has returned from Australia. He refers to the welcomes extended. He refused to discuss defence. He is visiting France to finalise matters relating to Australian graves, exhumating and the erection of divisional memorials. AN ENGAGEMENT. LONDON, Sept. 13. General Booth’s eldest son Bernard, is engaged to Miss Jane Lowther, an English girl who joined the Salvation Army in Sidney.