BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 April 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. OUTBREAK AT ALEXANDRA. CAIRO, April 21. Plague has broken out at Alexandria, there being 35 eases daily. Quarantine restrictions are being imposed on vessels leaving port. GHANDI’S ANARCHY. DELHI, April 22. In reference to the recent Government statements regarding the revolutionary anarchist tendency of non-cooperation, it is interesting to note Ghandi’s personal views in an article in the newspaper “Young India.” As for my own attitude, whilst my faith would not permit me to invite and encourage war and violence, I do contemplate with equanimity a state of our own in preference to the present state of effeminate peace imposed by the force of arms. For that reason I am taking part in this movement, now violent non-cooperation, even at the risk of anarchy being the ultimate result.

PERSIAN AFFAIRS. TEHERAN, April 22. The Premier has issued a, manifesto, .thanking British troops for their services. , Persia must prepare to undertake her own defence and cannot always have another country defending her and their withdrawal without reward. Persian Cossacks have taken over all the positions, evacuated by the British. STRIKE PAY. LONDON, April 23 •The Yorkshire Miners’ Association has paid out to the members £BO,OOO. They have borrowed £so*ooo from the Amalgamated Engineers’ Union. ROYAL COAL DONATION. LONDON, April 23 The King has dispatched 50 tons of coal from the Palace cellars for distribution amongst London’s poor. SEAFARERS’ WAGES LOWERED. LONDON, April 22. A conference of the Maritime Board was resumed for the consideration of a proposal to reduce the wages of the ships’ crews. After a long hut friendly discussion, the seafarers’ representatives agreed to recommend their constituents to accept the following terms, which the shipowners’ representatives accepted, namely:—From May 6th the wages of officers and men will be reduced by 10 shillings per month on monthly boats, and 8s 7d per week on weekly boats. It was further agreed that the rates for overtime and duns be revised by various panels 'within a month. It was also agreed to set up a special committee of nine, representing the searfarers and nine representing the shipowners, to examine the practicability of framing a scheme for the permanent regulation of wages on all agreed basis.

EVICTED UNION OFFICIALS. LONDON, April 22. The Vehicle Workers’ Union who seized Transport House, the Union’s central office, have now left the offices, and allowed the officials to return, an understanding having been reached. U.S. IMMIGRATION LIMITED. WASHINGTON, April 23 The U.S. House has passed an Immigation Bill, limiting the entry of aliens into the United States to 3 per cent of each nationality resident in the United States in 1910. The measure will be effective for fourteen months from the date of its passage by the Senate, where it now goes. WALL STREET EXPLOSION. NEW YORK, April 23. Four persons have now identified photographs of the man Ligi (who was lately arrested by Chief Detective Flynn), as the driver of the waggon in connection with the Wall Street explosion. Mr W. J. Flynn, who is Chief of the Justice Department investigation Bureau, believes the arrest is important in view of the fact that Ligi has admitted that he is an anarchist, and is unable to account for his movements about the time of the explosion. At Scranton the police also discovered pieces of sash-weights, similar to those contained in the Wall Street bomb, in n restaurant where Ligi was employed shortly before the disaster. One witness from New York has positively identified Ligi as the Than he saw driving the waggon in Wall Street five minutes before the explosion.

NEW INVENTION BY BRENNAN. LONDON, April 23. The lielicbquher, designed by Mr Louis Brennan (inventor of the Brennan torpedo) begins its trials at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough next week. A VACANCY FILLED. LONDON, April 23. Sir Wm Bird (a Coalitionist) has been elected unopposed for Chichester seat, vice Lord Edmund Talbot (the new Viceroy for Ireland). NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN. LONDON, April 23 The New South Wales Premier, Mr Storey has aranged for a loan of £6,500,000, whereof £3,000,000 will probably be floated in June, and the balance a year later. CATTLE PLAGUE IN RUSSIA. MOSCOW, April 20. Cattle plague is ravaging stock in the Tamboff district. Peasants and cat-tle-are dying in great numbers. WINDOW SMASHING. LONDON, April 23. Window smashing is spreading throughout the country. There were 140 oases in Tottenham. 100 in Kingston, 50 in West Ham. Not a street in Welbridge has escaped. Many cases in the city occurred in daylight, showing the miscreants are becoming bolder. The police have issued descriptions of eight, men and a woman seen under suspicions circumstances. A big amount of damage has been done to windows. In several cases men were seen actually at work in daylight, but escaped. !