MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1921, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. KIN*; OF MONGOLIA. PEKIN, March 20. Mongolia has crowned Ilutukutu as King, and declared its independence. . This followed on General Unger’s rout i of the Chinese Army, in which 2.100 were killed by shells and machine guns fire and many others died of sickness and frost bite. The horrors of a retreat in the Arctic are indescribable. The Chinese have been looting ami ■murdeiing scandalously. The attack was a national rising against their exactions. MONGO L-JAP ATTACK. PEKIN, Maitdi If). A mixed fore t » of Mongols and Japanese captured Urga. The Chinese pm up a miserable; fight. The attackers who were enthusiastically greeted a* liberators, slaughtered three thousand soldiers and also looted the Chinese shops and banks, until the Japanese Baron Urgern arrived and hanged fiftvlooters and ordered the extermination of Jews and Reds of whom one hundred were massacred.

(Received This Day at 9.1 d a.iu.) LONDON, March 21

Mr Hodges speaking at Kbbiivale, admitted that present wages exceeded the prices received for coal, and suggested that Government should place one hundred millions to the industry’s credit, thereby providing cheap coal for the steel trade, which would result in an increase in trade, and would enable tin 1 debt to be wiped out in two years. REPORTED MASSACRE. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) ATHENS, March 21 Partial mobilisation are officially attributed to Kemalist concentrations on Broslni front. Newspapers report* a terrible three days’ massacre of Christians by Kemalists in Caesarea. It is announced Constantine shortly proceeds lo the front to take over command.