BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CA-RI.F. ASSOCIATION. QUAKE LX I’ll 11.1 BRINES. MANILLA. Oct. 3 \ The heaviest, earth shock' since 1006 was experienced lu re, and in the provinces northward. There was no local damage. Xo reports have been received from the provinces. INSURANCE COY'S DECISION. (Received this dav at 1.30 p.m. I TOKIO. Oet. 3 '. Tie' Japanese insurance companies have announced their readiness to pay ;. II per cut. of the claim-, in the devastated districts, totalling approximately fifteen hundred million yen. 1 iie Government v. ill bn k tlm Companies with financial assistance and a guarantee lor the existing concents to continue business and thus she inlere-ts oi police holders outside the devastated areas will he protected. TURKISH IDLITKs. (Received this day at 1.39 p.m.) ('(iXSTANTTXnI’Li:. Oct. 39. Lint-1 I’aslia has accepted the invitation hv the I’i'e.siden!. M ustapha 'venial. t-i form a Cabinet. THE Bill LI I‘ITXES INSURRECTION'. ('A USE Or THE REVOLT. MANILA. O'tobcr 39. I-'ollowitig on an ciii'iU'dt end t':e annihilate n of an officer and ten soldieis, the situation In Mindanao is he. ai.-ung increasingly menacing. While no actual vti'.-oitnt'.-r between Government ti-.aips and I'ldiels I- yet reported the Lanao and C'otahal-; di-trie! - ate affected by a warlike fii-nzy. Genera! Wood, who a-sumed |ersniial (lire- lion in the lii-all'ectcd districts, made repeated efforts to negotiate with the insurgents in the hope of avoiding wholesale bloodshed, lint the .Morns were evidently determined m resoi t io war. <.,'im;si"|ucntly Gnm-ra! Wood ordered too iinmeiat'e m-didisat: n and de--l-atcli of ;i large body of constalntlary reinforcements to Hie dL.-iH'octed districts. Tile causes ot the revolt, is attributed, lit Ally, in the Alums hostility io the Filipino methods oi olliciMdoiti. the compo! -n-.y education (n girls, the inteifeivnce with reliigcns customs, especially p.idygumv : m'-oial-ly to the withdrawn 1 of American nllieials and gciri-oii- am! the .-ahstitetutiim of Filipino troop-: thirdly, to the reflection of the g. a rat pnhti- e.l disturbance throughout the i-hinds. produced by independence p.ropagand.-i. the repeated attacks on American sovoteiginy am! the Govenu r-t It-nei .d’s preregaiivos