BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

CO VENT GARDEN STRIKE. [Reuters Telegrams.] LONDON, Aug. 29. The Transport Union has decided not to extend the strike until the decision is known of the Court of Inquiry, which it is officially announced i lie Ministry of Labour is appointing. LONDON, Aug. 29. Covent Garden employers refused to meet Sir David Sliackletou of the Ministry of Labour, on the ground that the strike, in their opinion, was finished, the growers and retailers supplying their own porters. When the strikers return to work they will find fewer men will lie needed. The markets are full of produce. INDIAN TRAIN DISASTERDELI 11, Aug. 29. A collision occurred between two passenger trains on the north-we.-t railway near Montgomery. Sixty-seven deaths are reported and it is estimated twenty more bodies are to lie recovered from the wreckage. The total injured was 102, nf whom fiftv-tliroo are seriously. CHINESE AFFAIRS. PEKING, Aug. 29. In reference to - the Chekiangsn situation the Anglo, American, Franco, ami Japanese Ministers sent a note to Waicliiaopu saying their Governments hold the Chinese responsible in the event of losses by their nationalsthrough the lighting. The Hritish sent a separate note regarding the Shang-llai-Xanking railway.