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(ATTEMPTED WHOLESALE SGI Cl HE. TOKIO, April 27. Fifty Koreans were found lying with their necks on the rail, waiting for the express, but were removed and arrested, in Haoliieji district. They comprised contractors employed on track work, who believed themselves swindled and sought revenge by wholesale suicide. They were on the verge of starvation. GREAT RAILWAY UPHEAVAL PREDICTED. LONDON, April 27. Mr Dabble, president of the National Union of Railwayman, speaking at llacknall. predicted an early crisis and nil i: ii{iarn I le!cd situation in raihviiv work, lie said the men would present to the companies the first programme of (heir minimum conditions ever demanded including all workers in Great Britain. Debbie further predicted that the companies would reject the programme. The companies complained, he said, that they would have to pay dividends out of their reserve funds, but it was better to pay wages out of the reserve than pay dividends to those who do not work. INDIAN ADDUCTION CASE. DELHI, April 27. The trial of nine of the accused in the Muinta/. Begum case has commenced at Bombay before a special jury of the High Court". To-day’s hearing was devoted to a restatement of the case for the prosecution and evidence. Muinta/. described her life, firstly at the ’.Maharajah's mistress and later with Ravin. ARRESTED FOR MURDER.
LONDON, April 27
George Jolfrey, a garden hoy on the "Bridge estate, has been arrested on a charge of the murder of Joan Arnett, the little girl who was found near Oowborough with her head battered and her throat cut.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1925, Page 3
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