BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

CABLE NEWS.

tUSTUALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RIOT AND FIRE. BIG TIMBER YARD IN DANGER, (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. Serious rioting occurred at Glikstens timber yard, east London, the largest timber yard in England. Five thousand unemployed, many of whom^ waited all night long, came in response to—*an advertisement for fifty. They so angered at their failure to secure work that they broke the gates and raided the offices. Police and mounted men were summoned from the surrounding stations, until they were five hundred strong. They forced the men out of the gates, but some hours after the riot was quelled, the yard caught fire am’ stocks worth a million pounds sterling were threatened with total destruction. The yard covers twenty-one acres, which is a blazing inferno. LETTERS OF CREDIT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 7. Lloyd’s Bank has inaugurated world letter's of credit, procurable at any branch, enabling travellers to obtain cash in five thousand towns throughout (lie world. NOT GOING TO WASHINGTON. (Received This Day at 5.30 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 8. Hon Lloyd George informed British and American journalists that he would not lie able to attend the Washington Conference.