BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

BY TEI.EORAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. A i;«T it AI.l an A, n.z. cable association] JAPS GETTING OUT. : TOKIO, March 29. It is understood that the last Japanese troops will leave Chientao district on 4tli April. PRISONERS ESCAPE. DELHI, March 29. Seven hundred prisoners escaped from Rajhhai gaol. They over-powered the warders, seized guns and rushed tile gates. One hundred and ninety were recaptured. INDIAN UNREST. reuter’s telegrams. (Received This Day at 2.2-5 a.m.) DELHI, 'March 29 Railway strikers in Calcutta ar e causing serious trouble. Mobs stoned the trains and injured a number of the staff and passengers. Armed guards were placed on the engines to protect the staffs. Troops with machine guns are posted in the chief centres of disaffection. Recent rioting at Nagpur was accompanied by considerable looting and ..incendiarism. A big crowd of rioters stoned the police and rescued a number of prisoners. After repeated warnings had been ignored, the Magistrate ordered the police to fire and four rioters were killed and two wounded. Five police were seriously injured.

VICEROY’S MESSAGE reuter’s telegrams. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) DELHI, March 29. The Viceroy in proroguing the Legislative Chamber congratulated members on the way they had risen to the new difficulties and had shown a sense of balance and responsibility in the treatment of gji-eat questions under the new regime. 'The first session should go far to dispel the doubts of thos 0 who regarded the new constitutional departure with gloomy forebodings and should hearten those pledged to fight against the forces of disorder and anarchy. NOW FRIENDS. reuter’s telegrams. CAPETOWN, March 29. A uniqu c incident occurred in connection with General Haig’s visit to Kronstadt. He entered the town at'j the head of a command of Free State Burghers. Replying to a welcome lie recalled the occasion of the town doling‘the Boer war and thanked his escort declaring they were as loyal friends to-day as they were noble enemies,

twenty years ago. PALESTINE RIOTS. reuter’s telegrams. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) JERUSALEM, March 29. Serious Eastertide riots occurred at Haifa, following on an Arab demonstration. One Christian was killed and eight Jews wounded. A state of siege was proclaimed and order restored. SERIOUS EXPLOSION. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) CHICAGO March 29. Ten persons were killed and fifty injured and many houses destroyed by an explosion which wrecked Weil Paper Company’s plant. The damage is estimated at a million dollars. It is thought a gas leak was caused, but the police are not dismissing the l>omb theory. as the district was the scene of a bitter political war which has already resulted in several killings.

COAL OWNERS OFFER

(Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.)

LONDON, March 29

Coal owners at Cannock chase offered the miners a wage for April, two and a quarter times that of July 1914. Tlu> miners received the offer with great satisfaction.

Owners in South Wales offered the men wages on the 1915 standard during April. The men replied they wer ( > not able to answer pending the national conference in London to-morrow.