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[Reuters Telecrams.] .MURDER OF N.Z. SOLDIER. A GERMAN ON TRIAL. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) RERUN, January 28. At Cologne, Franz Swaboda will appeal- before the IJritisli -Military Court on the 30th January on a charge of murdering a New Zealand private named Croninr in 1919. A band of German youths at the beginning of the Allied occupation swore to cut off the hair of girls fraternising with members of the army of occupation. Crornar on 7th February, 1919, entered into conversation with a
girl sitting on the same seat in a public* park. A self-constituted watch committee approached and attempted to molest the girl and Crornar after explaining the harmlessness of the conversation, drew a bayonet to defend her, upon which one of the hand shot Crornar dead. There were many arrests hut Swaboda, whom his accomplices denounced as having fired, fled to the unoccupied territory. The others were severely punished for complicity. Swaboda on the 23rd January of this year visited his parents at Cologne and was immediately arrested by the British police who now are seeking the girl and other witnesses. CHINESE- AFFAIRS.
PKTCTN, January 28. Chihsiehquan with his family have sailed for Japan. PORT ALEXANDER SUBMERGED. CAPETOWN. -lan. 28. Details of the complete submergence of port Alexander by mountainous seas have been received. It was a fishing village on the coast- of Portuguese West Africa with a population of about live hundred, mostly coloured people, with some Portuguese officials. A DEADLOCK. LONDON. Jan. 28. Negotiations between the Union Cold Storage Coy. and the Transport Workers’ Union in regard to the strike resulted in a deadlock. Two hundred porters are still on strike. The executive of the 1 nion is considering the position. The company to-day adhered to its decision that the strikers who do not return to work' to-day will he deemeu to have left the Company’s service.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1925, Page 3
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