BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

CABLE NEWS.

ITTSTIuuASf AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

BIG WAGE DROP,

LONDON, June 6. The engineering trade has a wages dispute. It has reached an acute stage The Ministry of Labour, in reply to the men’s appeal for its intervention, said the previous negotiations had not exhausted the possibilities of a settlement. It was desirable for the parties to confer further. They "again met on Saturday, but have not reached any agreement. The employers are posting notices on Monday intimating that reductions in wages will b 6 made of 12s. weekly for time workers, and 15 per cent for piece workers. One million and a half men are_ _ affected.

APPALLING EVIDENCE

LONDON, June 4

The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says: There was appalling evidence at the trial of Teilirian, who was acquitted, on a charge of murdering Talaat Pasha. Professor Lepsius gave evidence that the young Turks in 1915 decided to exterminate the Armenians. “Wholesale deportations were dered. Hardly 10 per cent, reached their destination. A million Armenians thus perished from hunger and sickness or were massacred. When the concentration camps were full, the Armenians were taken to a desert and slaughter ed. Only the efforts of the German General Liman von Sanders saved two hundred thousand Armenians in the principal towns. The Young Turks —' feared the Armenian question would lead to a partition of the Ottoman Empire. Accordingly all non-Turk* had to be* destroyed. Talaat dley put this policy into operation. Other witnesses described horrifying outrages by the Turkish gendarmes upon women aitd girls. Hundreds wero bound together with rope and flung into the river and- drowned.

SIBERIAN FIGHTING,

(Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) TOICIO, Juno 6.

Siberian despatches state anti-Bolshe-vik forces have captured Omsk. Bolsheviks arc withdrawing towards Tobolsk.

A BUDDHA’S DEATH

(Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) TEKIN, June 6. Urga despatches report the death of Hutukhtu, the living Buddha.