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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. STEAMER AFIRE. NEW YORK, April 3, A wireless message reports tisli steamer, City of Victoria afire in mid-Atlantic and an unnamed British steamer is rushing to her rosette. SOVIET AND CHURCH. PRIEST'S DEATH SENTENCE.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3. A United Press message from Moscow states that the Central Executive Committee has commuted the death sentence on Archbishop Zepliak to 10 years’ imprisonment, hut refused the apical of the Vicar-General, Budkevitcli. CHARGES OF FRAUD. *
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK. April*.!
A message from Fort Worth, Texas, states Frederick A. Cook, of North Pole fame, was arrested on a charge of using the mails to defraud, itt connection .with the promotion of a large company for the sale of oil lands to the public. Seventeen other oil promoters were arrested on similar charges. Tuc Federal Government alleges huge premotions were carried out hy which gullible purchasers were swindled out of millions of dollars. Cook was released oil a bond of twenty five thousand dollars. EXECUTI ON CONDE.MNED. (Received this dav at 10.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 4. The Soviet’s execution of Father Budkevitcli raised a protest hy prominent persons in every walk of American life. The clergy of every dcnoniß nation stigmatize the deed as a hruWil outrage, shocking the civilized world. The press universally condemns the act, pointing out that whatever little sympathy the world had for the Soviet system had now been alienated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1923, Page 2
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