BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1922, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

ItJBTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A QUAKE. SAN FRANidSCO, March 10. Observations all over. Country recorded a considerable earthquake shock in the direction of the Pacific. Los | Angelos was slightly shaken. j A LOCK OUT. j LONDON, March 10. { Engineers trade union have broken | off negotiations and the lock out notices will become effective at midnight. CONTINENTAL CRIMES. PARIS, March 11. Paris is experiencing a startling number of what the French describe as crimes of passion. Poland is terrorised by a modern “Jack the Ripper.” Within tlirete reeks tine bodies of nine girls were found mutilated. ENG INK ER ING LOCK-OUT. : HALF-MILLION MEN AFFECTED. LONDON, March 11. Half-a-million skilled engineers will be unemployed by Wednesday, j A further 400,000 engineers on the Clydeside are keenly disappointed at the collapse of the negotiations, which j will mean an additional 70,000 unemployed in the Glasgow area. BRITISH ENGINEERS’ CRISIS. LONDON, March 10. A conference of the delegates of the engineering unions considered their representatives’ report and decided that they could not accept or 'recommend the acceptance of the employers’ demands.