NEWS BY HAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1921, Page 3

NEWS BY HAIL

MOHMANI) CONVOY LOOTED

ALLAHABAD, March 24

A party of Balzai Mohmands, returning via the Gandab route to their homes with a convoy of camels and donkeys laden with cloth bought at Peshawar, were, oil nearing the village of Daud Smadl, in the hills some miles beyond the frontier, attacked by. a gang ot Shilmanis (hostile tribesmen) who were lying in wait. The attackers looted the convoy. A riotous mob at Nagpur (Central Provinces) on Sunday night looted liquor shops but was dispersed bv tlie police, who made 30 arrests. The "following day the local magistrate, accompanied by police, was attacked by a large crowd, and the prisoners were rescued. The magistrate, after repeated warnings, ordered the police to lire, njid four of the rioters were killed and two wounded. One subinspector and four constables were seriously hurt.

1,000 BOY REBELS

BERLIN, March 24

The bogus Red revolution is becoming tiresome. To-day the newspapers had alarming headlines which led one to suppose that the whole unoccupied Rhineland and Westphalia were in the throes of a revolt. As a matter of fact the worst news from that quarter was that 300 desperadoes had seized the public buildings of Mettmann, 9 miles from Dusseldorf ,and 'that at a feu other places placards were found on the walls calling upon the workers to strike.

I lost count of the number of railway bridges reported to have been blown up by revolutionary forces. The truth is that railway traffic in Middle Germany has been delayed while one of these bridges which the people were led to suppose was blown to atoms was being repaired. The Leuna (near Leipzig) aniline dye works were described as a “fortress packed with thousands of desperate Communists armed to the teeth.” Heroic police walked into the works this morning and found that the desperate Communists were a pack of boys who meekly held up their hands and were marched off 1,000 strong. Here in Berlilf ,tlie scene is set for revolution, but nobody will revolt. Last night both ends of the Wilhelmstrasse wero barricaded with low barbed-wire entanglements defended by green-coat-ed police armed with rifles. The British Enibassy is close to one barricade.