BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1922, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CHINESE HORRORS. SHANGHAI, June 22. Kaifu reports states foreign women missionaries roped with Chinese ■ are being driven to the moan- fy tains by the mutinous troops, who are committing wholesale murders in Kaifu province. It is reported ten thousand Chinese and many foreigners have been slaughtered. Britsh missionaries are appealing to the Foreign Office London, fof assistance;

PRINCE OF WALES. LONDON, June 22

The King has appointed the Prinee of Wales a Knight of the Order of the Thistle.

GIFT TO STUDENTS. LONDON, June 28

Lord Roseberry has given fifty thousand sterling to the Glasgow University students welfare scheme.

NOTABLE CHINESE DEAD

(Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, June 23

A Canton despa toil announces the death of Wu Tuing Fang, a former Minister to Washington, and more recently Suit Yat Sen’s Fdrbign Minister. Wu fled with Suri when Canton wM Sfc to eked.

MINERS’ STRIKE SEQUEL. ” (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 23. The latest reports from Lerrim show that the massacre cabled on 22nd June was- more ghastly even than at first believed. The bodies of fivewomen, some with infants in their arms were found beaten to death. One, a refugee, declares she saw fifteen miners bodies’ thrown into the lake with rocks round their necks, while others were tied together dragged behind a motor car down a rocky read, and then allowed to lie in the hot sun with their wounds unattended to. They were refused water Two thousand troops are mobilised in Chicago and Springfield ready to proceed to the mine-fields in ease there is renewed outbreaks. A POPULAR MAN. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 23. According to a Cincinatti rtetegrShl (tempers has been re-eiected President of the Labour Federation ufiogposea; his forty-first year in office.