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Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1924, Page 3

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lU3TIULIAN AND N.2- CARLE ASSOCIATION. big DIESEL ENGINE. (Received this day at 9.2;3 a.m.) LONDON, October 13. Karla ml WollF are construc ting a Diesel engine developing thirty thousand horse power. This marks an epoch in marine engineering. The most pmverln| Diesel now in any ship, is of three thousand horse power. FI?EN( II CIVIL SEIIVANTS. PARIS, October 12. As the result of Civil Servants demanding an increase in their salaries, the Government lias decided to abolish 20.0(10 posts, thus raising the salaries, without upsetting the budget. The, Civil Servants will not oppose the reduction if the personnel of their representatives are allowed to co-operate in the readjust men ts.

KfANG.SU NEAR SHANGHAI. (Received this clay at 10.2.7 a.m.) SHANGHAI. Oct. 13,

General l.u and Hopenlui hotrrded a steamer early in the morning and sailed for Nagodni.

'The troops on the llwangtnsliulio front are already beginning to surrender.

Tl ic Kiang.su forces have occupied Naiisiang, II miles west of Shanghai, where the defenders joined them. The French and other foreign volunteers in Shanghai have been fully mobilised and the naval and marine units are all at their stations. Every precaution has been made to cope with lauy developments. It is, however, confidently believed, as the war is ending through the defection of generals and troops and not through defeat, there is not danger to the foreign settlement. A REMARKABLE STORY. (Received this day at 10.2.7 a.m.) DEI.IH. Oct. 13.

A most remarkable story regarding the Hoods which devastated southern and northern India during the present moiisouii, comes from Hard war in the United I’rovices, which is an age old holy retreat. Thousands of Hindu priests and their disciples, without warning, in the holy colony found their huts inauiidated hy the floods, which, ever rising, compelled them to take refuge in the trees. The Hoods broke down the trees, drowning over one hundred priests and disciples. The l Hoods caused heavy damage to the residences and the College of Priesthood.

AMERICANS ATTACK ED. DELHI, Oct. 13

Sir IV. Butler. Governor of Burma, offered a reward of live thousand rupees for information leading to the conviction of the persons responsible for the savage attack on the American missionary. Mr Glceson and his wife, a lew davs ago. The assault, which was made in broad daylight by a band ol Buddhist priests near the moiiastry. while the pair were sight-seeing. is thought, in responsible quarters, to he due t.) tho violent fanatical anti-white hatred on the part of the priests, which has been evident for some time.

It is evident that religious grounds were- not the motive as live hours latei two British soldiers were molested, one being injured with a sword cut on the head. The military and civil police to-day raided the nnmasterv and arrested a number of monks and laymen. The’Americans are proceeding. HICKSON AGAIN. (Received this dav at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 13. Hundreds of sick and cripnled from all over the country arc making a pilgrimage to fill id lord to attend the first health healing mission held in Britain, with the full sanction of the Kurdish Chinch authorities. Last night’s intercession service at Fixing Hull Parish Church, where Mr Hickson to-day commences his mission, was largely attended and vast crowds wore tumble to gain admission.