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Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

lUSTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, A BUZZARD. LONDON, dan. 1“. A remarkable bhzzaid has vi-ited Southern England. Ii wa- aecompanied by the worst -nev- stoi in since ltd!), j A hhaik easterly gale . aic-t-d heavy drifts. Twenty-live degrees of fiost were register's! at Dumfries in Scotland. (Aval Storms are raging in the Bay of Biscay, and mueh damage has been dole- to shipmu., in tie* Fremdi p.rtand rivers. Tin* lisherniwi describe

the storm as the worst in living memory. It has boon raining all day in Paris, where it, i, fen red that tie* Hoods wiil resume their destructive course. A SMART GANG.

FRAUDS total £ [.000.007 (“Sydney Sun’' Cables'. (Received this day at 10. do a.m.) LONDON. .January 10. Neurit every town in f.: i ncasii ii e. Yorkshire and the Midlands was duped by a gang (cabled oth. .January) uho-r traiid.s are lar more extensive than wa- at first, reported and total £1.000.(iOO. Nearly one hundred police stations are engaged taking the statements ol four hundred victims. The gang is composed ol all aliens and some urn hardly speak English. The leader is a lemarknbly clever a oiindrel. possessing great emumcrei.il ability.

1 he gang opened ninny shops dealing in clothing, hoc:-:, lin-iery sewing machines and utln r g,.iei-. Tie y paul the nuinufae! iii-er-, <-n-h for ilm ti i— l few orders ami when conlidciie, -..as c-tnh-!i -la’ll they cm.,in d ,-i.-dii for big orders. The gang ab-o duped m 1 ineii 1a 1 lii ms. LEGGING IN RUSSIA. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) LONDON. .lannary 10.

The -'Daily Mail's” Itig;, corn-poo dent says the Bolshevik l-kminee Coni missurint rc:-uMini"iids tin- eiiaetineiit o a law pi oh i hit ing ehihl-en under fourteen begging in the Greets Us lln -igdit of tl'oiisaml- of young eliihli*'i begging in Aluscuv.- gives lon ign visitors a had iin pi o--iru of the I!iissinu eeommue and limuieial position. The Coiiiinissariui's investigations slmweil that sixty ) er cent of the children legging. a;i' the main support of starving families; thirty | or cent beg oi order to increase the family im-niuc and on'y ton ;el e. ni. totalling In.ooo are orphans.

METAL Wi HIKERS STRIKE. COMMUNL-TS C ! I YE. (Received this dr.v at t'.lo a.m.) I.ON DON. .Ta unary 10. The “Times” IT; :-liit coi'ii spnnde.ut ‘.avs the strike of the metal umlo-i-i at I 'uss-.-hliirf is spreading to other trade* and there is tlm d-uigcr of a general stoppage. which, according to the pronoun: ■eluents of the strike leaders, would he ruthlessly applied and this may -s* oi i!v he declared. .Strikers marched the street-, calling on the ‘other workers to come out. There note no violent, disturbances because tradesmen i-lrst.'i! their slun s as a precautionary measure. 'I he Communist, agitators are energetically scheming to create a general upheaval. Work has ceased at the C.efcld textile factories and cotton mills. The “Crefeldej- Zeituug" declares that syndicalist- from other parts ‘of tli*’ Ruhr rumpclied the workers to leave under threats. PRINCE WELCOMED \T I’A IMS. LONDON, .lioina.iv 10. The ‘‘Daily Mail" Mate- that tin- ! ‘ri g. cof Vi ,i >e I i --n |iii ua . Ihi l.a : i ni Chester, wa- vO. iie:-oii:-l\ v.eh at .Paris.

LABOUR AND THE PEEBS. LONDON January TO. The Labour Government instead of creating Labour peers to represent the 1 ’overnment in lie bunts, arc inclined to introduce a const i to tbond change, permitting Ministers to sit and speak in both houses. IMMENSE TIDAL WAVE. ’Received this day at 9.2.7 n.m.l LONDON. .January 10. The “Daily Mail" sites that immense t id;l| traces over ast retell of more than (■.",!. mile-, ctused extensive damage on the Irish and French coasts. A wall ot tile Atlantic v.alcrs crashed into the small Brittany ports, sinking fishing vessels and Hooding houses. The wave wrecked buildings on Biarritz promenade and llonded a huge tract of low-lying land near Bordeaux, interrupting railway traffic. Tbit wave was accompanied by an t artliqimko. At F.a Rochelle a house collapsed and the furniture was washed away. The wave lifted the boats at Bay (iiuie on to the quays. Six fishermen of La Vendee are mi-sing and are believed to be drowned. The yacht, fobmllte. at King-town, Dublin, wa- swej t fiom her moorings in the harbour and was smashed to paces. Large motor boats were carried up among t be bouses.

At Seaton, a Devonshire Wittering place, a boa I re-curd six naval nlfierrs from a submerged taxicab which suddenly became an island. Bain and snow caused considerable da mag > t hroiighout France. Winter sports are in full ‘wring limiiighoii! Britain and f ondoners are nninxitig toboganning and ski-ing "ti H.ampst.ed Heath. NEW STYLE EXECUTION. SAN LBANGISCO, Jan. ID The Appeal Court finally fixed Hn last week in February lor the cx—ution of three Chinese in the State ol Navada. under lhe new law, w th provides that while they are a-n vthe death bouse be flooded with P-" soil gas, and the murderers will never waken. SHOT DEAD. NEW YOB K. dan. 10. Advices from El Paso Sate Charles Haekesehmidt, a brother of the former wrestling champion. was shot dead in a dramatic street gnu battle between the noliee anil bootlegger-. UJ.TKD MI UTAH Y CONTROL. RERUN, dan. RE A resumption ot Allied militai.' control will be etfected during the present. week, following upon an anno,ineement that rbe Government Ee taken measures to facilitate the Control Commission's visits on the tenth and 12th. January.