AMERICAN ITEMS.
4UBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIII.F. ASSOCIATION. ST It IK E AT VERA CRUZ. (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, August 21. A stiike of several thousand workers at Vera Crux, in sympathy with the striking tramoiir employees caused r suspension of tile City’s industries and threatened a. bread famine. Meanwhile the City is without tram, telephone and electric services. The Federation of Labour together with the Mexican Railway employees lias threatened to call a general sympathetic strike in the entire Ttepublie The Government is despatching troops to guard the power house. TEN FIREMEN KILLED.
(Received this dav at 11.4.1 a.m.) NEW YORK. Aug. 22. Ten firemen were killed and thirty injured through tin- collapse of a burning building in Brooklyn. The collapse ■was not expected. Among those were some spectators who crowded the* scene. Estimates ol the dead are problematical owing to the ’ i ougested nature of the residences.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1923, Page 3
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152AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1923, Page 3
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