GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN' AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. TIIK DI’fKB.URG OUTRAGE. FUNERAL OF VICTIMS. (Received this (lav at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON’, July I. Advices from Dussoldorf state that the Holguin military authorities ordered the closing of every business establishment in Crefold on the occasion of the funeral of the nine Belgians ' killed in the bomb outrage in Duisburg. The authorities also forbade the Germans to appear in the si reels through which the procession passed. Those present included General Re- < gouette, and -Major liarne of the British Army of oceup.'ition. The processionists marched from the hospital to th(> church, thence to the station where the coffins were entrained for Belgium, and they included | little Belgian girls dressed in white ( sashes and the Belgian colours. Sol- j diers, raihvaymen and others carried . hundreds of wreaths. ,

Baron Jaerpiemyns, the High Commissioner, referred to the cowardly assassination. Me said that the Commission would fully support the measure against the pretended passive resistance dictated from Berlin. METAL WORKERS’ STRfKE. BERLIN, July L The metal workers have proclaimed a. general strike and this, it is feared, is the beginning of a general labour trouble. SITUATION DIFFICULT. (Received this day at 12.15 p.m.) LONDON. July L Lord Curzon lengthily emniminiented to Cabinet bis conversations with the French and Belgian Ambassadors. The strictest, secrecy is maintained although it is admitted the situation is extremely difficult owing t ' Frnnee’s and Belgium's tenacious insistence Oil the cessation of the Geimans’ passive resistance.