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Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N’.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WOOL SALES. LONDON, Aug. 17 At Bradford wool sales, business was restricted and prices firm. ALPINIST IN.) ( RED. GENEVA. Aug. 17. Dr Brodig, a veteran climber, while instructing a class ot Alpinists on Gauli Glacier, fell into a crevasse, breaking his leg and several ribs. He was extricated by tho students and taken to Meiringen. A NOTABLE CLIMBER. GENEVA, Aug. 17 Captain Karra r, editor ot the Alpine Journal climber the difficult Ibnetliih peak, 13,091) feel, which lias not been climbed for forty-five years when two Englishmen made the first ascent.

DOCK STRIKE OUTCOME. LONDON. Aug. 17. A meeting of business men enlivened by the London Chamber of Commerce, passed a resolution in favour of common action to end l lie dock strike, calling on the Home Office to assure ade.'iunle protection for men who resumed work, and others who desired to resume but were prevented from fear of personal violence. The meeting also carried a resolution welcoming the action of the ratepayers who proposed to challenge the legality of Poplar and Bermondsey guardians, in granting poor relief to strikers, some of whom received larger sums in relief than when al work, and urging the Government declare illegal I lie payment of doles to men retiming work. A PERSIAN RAID. DELHI, Aug. 17. A Mc.scd cable stales Afghan raiders cut I lie Persian telegraph line 50 miles ninth ol Seistav, killing the linesman effecting repairs. Persian cavalry are pursuing them. NEW FLYING BOAT. LONDON. Aug. 17. The “Daily Express” states a Hying boat will he built shortly for the .Sunt liampton-Chcrboiirg service. It will he equipped with a promenade deck, and a lefroshment buffet. AEROPLANE CRASHES. MADRID. Aug. 17. An aeroplane crashed through the roof and two storeys of a house, killing two women and a. child. The pilot escaped uninjured.

THE SPANISH DISASTER. .MADRID, Aug. 17. Colonel Davela, giving evidence before tile Mellila War Commission, declared ilit' whole responsibility of the Spanish disaster must rest with the politicians who appointed General Sylvester Comiiiaiider-in-Ciiief. He was far too impetuous and daring to occupy such a post. He would not listen to anvbodv, and knew no law hut his own will. RECORD TYPHOON. HONG KONG, Aug. 17. A terrific t-vplmiiii caused the -inking of the British sul-nmi'ine 1.9. The crew were saved. The steamer ''Lomisalig” was lost with til! hands. Many smaller craft were destroyed, with heavy loss of lilt?. Tiie typhoon was the wildest in history. It did nit enormous amount ol damage along the shore. WOMAN BOLSHEVIK. LONDON. Aug. 17. The “Daily Mail's" correspondent who has just been released utter two months’ imprisonment in Ru-s.a, declares that the real Chief of the Foreign Depart meiit of the Cheka is a Russian woman, less than 3d \eurs old, named Kimunova. Shy is a heautitul blonde, with innocent grey-blue eyes. Nevertheless she is even more violent than her Jewish assistants. She eonduets all the important interrogations. She is merciless in her demands foi punishment. She is responsible for the shooting or expulsion of all foreigners. Within the last six months, lie says. 20,00(1 Russians and foreigners have been expelled to Archangel. Her name is notorious throughout Russia.

R.rSSO-IULGARI AN IMS PETE. LONDON. Aug. 17. The “Daily Telegraph's’' Sofia correspondent says that, following measures taken by the Bulgarian Government against Russian agents recently, the Soviet lias lodged a complaint to tli<* League of Nations, which is instituting an inquiry. The Bulgarian Government is at eordingly placing at the disposal of the League all the documents seized, containing evidence ol Bolshevik activities against the State. Without waiting for the League s verdict, tho Soviet has sent a Note to Sofia, vehemently accusing Bulgaria ol a varietv of unfriendly arts against Russian representatives, and ot provocative attitude towards the Bolshevik Government. Generally the Note demands complete sat istaet ion. full exola nation, indeniniiieatinn of Bolshevik agents, punishment of responsible officials, and the hanishtneiil trout Bulgaria of all anti-Bolshe-vik Russian fugitives. In the event of non-compliance, the Soviet threatens to make ii an international question, and inflict reprisals on Bulgarian solder! s residing in Russia.

DOCK STRIKE. i l LONDON, August IS. j The Australian Press Association lmlcrstamis that as the .stevedores are • till on itrike. the shipping companies ire inviting the dock labourers to do the stevedores’ work. i NTi M I D.VITDN ALLEGED. LONDON. August 17. Though the dockers are gradually returning to work, intimidation continues. One of the most objectionable methods is to send wives and motheis a tuiioral card bearing a tombstone villi the inscription. “Hero lies the body ot vour husband or son, done to death ilocaii-c ho was a blackleg.’’

Tr-dav all the New Zealand vessels were unloaded.

RAID 15V BANDITS. PEKING. Aug. 17. A Hangkow message reports that I,audits have atacked Tsaosclnh. They burned the Diudon Mission Hospital «>))(] the foreign quarter, and ;ilso the Catholic Church buildings, and looted the town. Two Irish Catholic priests. Flit hers McHugh and Ward, wore the onlv foreigners in the town at the time of the attack. Both are missing, but it is believed they escaped, dressed a< Chinese A Chinese doctor and otnet Chinese attached to the London MisSr were captured. Two-thirds of the houses in the town were burned- The local garrison, numbering 120. lost « '•died The rest marched out. Lite bandits, who are still in the neighbourhood, took two hundred captives.

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