BRITISH 4 FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1923, Page 3

BRITISH 4 FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A DUD BOMB. CAIRO, May (5. A bond) placed in a tram ear behind some British soldiers exploded harmlessly. A similar result- attended a bomb thrown at three British soldiers near tlie railway station. A "WONDERFUL SIGHT. LONDON, May 5. A wonderful sight was witnessed at Doncaster when fifteen thousand North Country pigeons were liberated. They were competing in races to France. For a time a patch of the skv was black with them. AN KM BKZZLLR. LONDON. May 5. A Scottish Minister’s son. David Chalmers Anderson, who was said to liave been employed by a rich old man named .John Wilson, as manager of liis a/Fairs at thirty .shillings a week, was charged at Glasgow with uttering forged documents involving £50,000. Wilson died aged 92, and according to the doctor's evidence he was nearly blind and in a state of senility. It was alleged that documents relating "to the transfer of some of Wilson’s scrip bore a signature which was not Wilson’s. An Edinburgh bookmaker said Anderson had lost £IOOO in bets at Ascot and later visited America. Anderson told him he had bought a dance-hall for £50,000. A nephew of Wilson stated that he thought apart from his salary Anderson bad not a farthing in the world, and was surprised to learn he had bought a house and motor-car. BANDIT OUTRAGE. (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) PEKIN. May 7. The latest available details ot the bandit outrage (cabled on the Gth) state that 28 foreigners, including 13 Americans, arc held as hostages, together with 800 Chinese. One Englishman, named Rothman, was killed either in the train wreck or by the shots following the attack. Over a thousand bandits participated. They pulled up the track, ditching the express.

(A cable message published yesterday stated that Chinese bandits, supposed to ho disbanded troops, derailed and attacked the Pukow-Tientsin express train).