BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

tUS TRAHAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PROGRESS OF DISTURBANCES. DELHI, Aug. 29. Columns from Alalapuram, Calicut and Tirur arc converging on Tirurangadi. Reports from some districts show that disturbances are slowly decreasing and a favourable turn in the situation may be expected shortly. Attempts by members of the Congress • Party to pacify the Moplahs have apparently completely failed. Local newspapers point out it is a significant circumstance that the rising is not merely against the Government, but against all non-Alosleins. . Officials and private individuals in Quilandy and other places are organising bands of Hindus and Christians to beat off the rebels. The .Magistrate at Palghat report* that one span of Tliuppanad bridge is broken. Alannarghat and Nuttukhal police stations were looted, and rifles, carbines and ammunition carried off. The rebels are also forcibly collecting arms from licence holders. Major General Burnett Stewart has been appointed Commander of the whole martial law area. UISTRO-HUNGARIAN STRIFE. LONDON, August 29. The “Morning Post’s” Vienna- correspondent states: Affairs in West Hungary have taken a serious turn. An irregular Alaygar force attacked a column of Austrian gendarmes and a number of casualties resulted. Bands of irregulars also surrounded the town of Sopron, with the evident intention of prevent Austria taking possession of the Burgenland, as the Entente had arranged for. To-dav Austria is too weak to help herself, so the Vienna Cabinet will appeal to the Entente itself to force a surrender of the disputed territory. A WEAK-MINDED YOUTH. LONDON, August 30The London “Daily Express” Geneva correspondent reports that a- wealthy Swiss banker’s son was sent to Stuttgart to study German. He became ill. A German woman doctor there declared that he was suffering from a hereditary disease. When the youth returned to Geneva, physicians found the woman doctor was mistaken; but her verdict so prayed on the youth’s mind that he has been sent to an asylum hopelessly insane. POPLAR COUNCILLORS. LONDON, August 30. Unless the writs issued be suspended. thirty of the Poplar/ Councilors will go to prison on September Ist. for refusing to levy rates, which total £300,000 by Christmas. The councillors’ case is that the unemplovinent .relief is costing the B< rough'nearly'£6ooo weekly, and the unemployment is due to national and m ter national causes. Therefore the, wealthy ‘boroughs should contribute towards the burdens of. the poorer areas The Councillors are confident that thci,r imprisonment- will immediately be followed by a “No debt” strike. A lean while the Camberwell and Islington Boards of Guardians are paying unemployed relief amounting to £3 Ids 6d weekly to married men with six children. . < Bermondsey Guardians are paying The Hackney unemployed men with six children are claiming £4 lls a week and there are similar applicants in Shoreditch demanding £4 13 These payments are frequently higher than workers’ wages, raising n. query. “Why work?” . BUILDING STRIKE IN ENGLAND. ! LONDON, Aug 29. • The London “Daily Express” states there was an astounding strike of 300 men employed in a house scheme at Sunthorpe, in Lincolnshire. The r ’ were compelled to strike by the Opora•ivo Bricklayers’ Society. A big fi -,f contractors, whom the authorities had engaged to complete the job quickly. offered the bricklayers the full union wages, plus any surplus on ac- , mint of work done beyond a, certain minimum. Tims the bricklayers eam--vi 30 pence per Hour. The S'vietv however, declared that this piece of work must be abandoned. Then the contractors declined to recognise the edict. All the trade uhions Mien called out their men, and the strike was complete. PRINTERS’ WAGES. LONDON, Aug. 29. it is stated that the Printing Trades Ballot has resulted in all the Unions accepting a reduction of 3s weekly in worn en ’ s wages .v The definite resul t i c garding the lithographic section is not yet known. ONE-ABATER AIORRISON. LONDON, Aug. 12. After living for months in the shadow of death, one of the bravest Irish Secret Service men, nicknamed “One-armed Morrison,” leaped into the river Liffe.v, and refusing the ropes thrown after him, was drowned. ’ r He was a Belfast man, a six-footer, and lost an arm at Alessines. He joined the Auxiliaries in Ireland to avenge the deaths of friends killed on Dublin’s Red Sunday. Being posted to the Secret Service, lie forthwith participated in many hazardous expeditions, getting information which made him one of the Sinn Fein’s most hated foes. The Sinn Fein energetically hunted Morrison, who was consequently transferred to Roscommon three months ago. He returned to Dublin, and soon after his arrival examined some captured Sinn Fein letters. The first one said, “One-armed Morrison is back, in Dublin.” The discovery unnerved him, and eventually affected his reason.