BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

'ASSAM STRIKE. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) DELHI, May 21

In connection, with trouble among As&aiti tea cboiies, who are itt despferiito straits owiiig to starvation; all iilinstigation shows the strike was due to interference by extremist agitators, who declared the rule of British Raj was ended, and a Hindu King would be installed. The hostile population openly jeered at -European extremists and demanded the government must pay for the repatriation of coolies or provide a livelihood. PRICE OF GOLD. (Received This fray at 12.20 p.hi.) CAPETOWN, May 22. Rand mining interests are considering a proposal to stabilize the price of gold. It is suggested the years output be sold in advance to America, at fixed price, through the Bank of England. A WARSAW REPORT. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) , COPENHAGEN, May 22. It is reported from Warsaw that Supicha and several other members of the Cabinet, have resigned, owing to "Hie Nationalist and Labour parties favour • ing support of the Sd es ’ an insurgent EGYPTIAN RIOTS. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) CAIRO, May 22. Fifteen were wounded in anti-Go-vernment rioting. Five were killed and thirty wounded in Alexandria. British troops quelled both disturbances. INCENDIARY OUTBREAK LONDON, May 22. There have been a. number of incendiary outrages assumed to be due to Sinn Fein at Tyneside. There were a series of fires in Jarrow district, where a. gas main was blown up, affecting the town’s lighting. Coal building wor.cs _ at Wallsend were set on fire. The damage was not serious. Two arrests wen made. Big fires on farms and timber yards at Hiekton, Middlesborough, caused’ serious damage, MONARCHIST COUP. A PORTUGUESE UPHEAVAL. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, May 22. The “Daily Mail” announces a monarchist coup at Lisbon at dawn on Saturday.- It is reported that the Premier and all ministers were arrested.

GREEKS GUILTY. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON’. May 22. The Allied Commission, headed by jßrijtish officers, have completed the investigation of Turkish charges against Greeks in Asa Mnor, of mnl-treating (eiviLinJns. They found the charges proven, and impiesesod upon the Greeks that they must, as a civilised natidn, observe the rules of civilised warfare. THEATRICAL SLUMP. LONDON, May 22. London managers are alarmed nt the theatrical slump, which is described, as desperate and unprecedented. Playing to very sparse audiences, some houses are losing thousands of pounds weekly. POSTAL REVENUE. LONDON, May 22 Post Office revenue shows a deficit of 3) million. lidoreaSedl fates are forecasted.

Another Lisbon message states merely that Government has resigned and public order is not disturbed.