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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1923, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RAILWAY STRIKE. NEW YORK, July 13. At Chicago the Federal Court made permanent the temporary Daugherty injunction, granted during tlie railway shopmen’s strike in 1922, restraining the strikers from committing violence or interfering with mails, or transportation. The strike is still officially effective on sixty-two per cent, of the United States railways. U.S.A. lAIAIIGRATION. . SAN FRANCISCO, July 14. It is doubtful if some Australian and Now Zealand settlers who are coining in to the 1 nited States bj the Ventura and Tahiti will obtain immediate admission, the British immigration quota being already exhausted. LIQUOR QUESTION. OTAWA. July 12. A Winnipeg message states the Prohibitionists, by a majority of less than 23,000 won the poll on the liquor question. THE LAV.AY. NEW YORK, July 12. Twenty-seven men belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World were convicted at Los Angelos on charges ot syndicalism, and received sentences ranging from one to 14 years’ imprisonment. All refused the judge's offer of clemency, if they would abandon Socialism.

SENSATION AL ESCAPE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 14. Six prisoners made a sensational escape from the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia. They overcame two guards and, climbing up the prison wall, slid down a rope to freedom. The, escapees then commandeered a motoi lorrv, frightening the driver with a revolver and drove off. Later they abandoned the lorry for a passenger motor and presently left that for a speedier automobile which they seized, making good their escape through a thickly populated suburban area. Crossing into another Slate they summoned a man from a held where he was working to his own house, hound and gagged him, stole two hundred dollars and three suits of clothes, which' they donned and drove off. All six escapees were serving long .sentences for burglary and robbery.

WASHINGTON NAVAL TREATY,

(Received this day at 5.30 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, July 14

Following on the French ratification of the Washington Naval Treaties, Air Dcitby, Secretary of the Navy, called a meeting of the American Naval Council to decide on a programme for the scrapping of all the American walships provided in the Treaty, which consists of fifteen existing battleships and seven battle cruisers. Four battle cruisers under construction will he dismantled. the LUSITANTa outrage. WASHINGTON, July 14. The United Press learns, on good authority, that the German Government has admitted to America that she accepts full liability for the sinking of the Lusitania. The admission was made by a German representative before the Mixed Claims Commission which is adjusting American war claims against Germany, whose admission includes liability for all damages, and loss of life.