BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

iOSTIIALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOC... JION . REBELS SHOT. .Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) DELHI, Jan. 11. Sentence of death was passed by the Military Court on the notorious chiefs, Ci.embrasscri, Thangal and Seethikoxa, and that of four followers, having been confirmed, they were shot at Malliappurani. Tiie former deluded his followers by asserting he possessed mystic powers and was invulnerable to bullets. He was credited with many cruelties. The capture of the leader named Ivumsharner lioji, practically completes the rounding up of the principals in the rebellion, and it is generally considered the final stages are reached. lioji proclaimed himself Khalifat, and King of Eriiad. He is supposed to lie the son of a notorious outlaw, who led the Moplah outbreak in 1889. lie assumed a ludicrous kind of regal estate, exercising great tyranny and brutality. Many Hindu massacres are attributed to him.

COPE’S EXPEDITION. (Received This Day at 12-25 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 11 A cable has been received that Bagshaw and Lester, two members of the Cope Expedition, who were detailed to make scientific observations on Shetland Islands a year ago, and were subsequently icebound, have been rescued. FRENCH CRISIS. ,'Received This Dav at 12.25 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 11. Political circles are excited. It is feared a political crisis is in the air. The Council Minister.was asked by the President of the Council to give an opinion on the projected agreement at Cannes, and expressed itself in a sense altogether opposed to M. Briand. The opinion was communicated to M. Briand. It is probable various problems will have to be threshed out again.

AFRICAN LABOR DANGER. I (Received This Day at 1.30 p.m.) j CAPETOWN. January lit The seriousness of the question of Repatriation of native mine workers recounts for the coincidence of the! threat of a general strike on the same lay. The President of the Industrial Federal denounces the idea of repatriation declaring the natives are on contract, and accusing the Governm of supporting the chamber of mines. The Chamber however, points out that the first to be repatriated, numbering many thousands are those with expired contracts. If the strike continues for any length! of time the remaining natives will be given the option of terminating their contracts by mutual consent.

SUEZ CANAL CHAIRMAN. ' LONDON, January 11. Lord Inchcape has been elected; Chairman of the London Committee of Suez Canal’ and Cox in succession to Sir Thomas Sutherland.