BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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( 11 IN E>E STUDENTS RIOT. PEKIN. June 1. At ;m excited meeting of the Chinese Chamber ol Commerce at Shanghai, fifteen hundred students and workers coerced the Chairman of the Chamber to sign a notice calling a general strike to-day. The meeting subsequently passed extremist resolutions, including the boycott of foreign hunks mid banknotes, the control of municipal police to lie placed in the control of Chinese hands; the withdrawal of foreign warships from 11 muigpu river; the release of arrested men ; punishment of murderers of students and workmen; compensation for sufferers; suspension of payment of municipal taxes. When the strike mis due, the students began to attack and the police met them with a deluge trout a lire hose to which the rioters responded with paving stones, injuring a number of police and onlookers. The polee then fired, seriously wounding five, after which the crowds dispersed. The students aro endeavouring to enlist services for which the .Municipal Council had prepared. Altogether eighteen rioters were shot. of whom three siioeimibod. I here wore minor disturbances in the outlying districts during the evening, some arrests being made hut there were no casualties. Otherwise, the situation is quiet.

BRIT KM LEGION. (Received this day at. 10.25 a.m.i LONDON. June 2. Tho British Legion conference passed a resolulimi urging the comm/lling of employers to employ disabled ex-ser-vice men and also preventing the displacement of ex-service men by female waiting assistants in government offices, and condemning the action of certain public church Indies in employing ex-service men at starvation wages. It was decided that th.> next coaleretic.' lie held in London also. A resolution was carried urging the government lo grant more generous provision and he tier facilities for exservice men and their families who desired to migrate. COMMUNIST C’ONKEREXCE. (Received this day at 10.2.1 a.tn.j JA )N DON. .1 une 2. There were enthusiastic scenes at the Communist conference in Glasgow, when it was announced that, despite the Home Oilier halt on foreign reds. Doctor Stocker, the fraternal German delegate was present. The doors were locked and Stocker went on the platform amidst I remeutl ius enthusiasm ami singing of the International, lie declared it childish and absurd for Sir Joynsnn Hicks to think he could stop British revolution hy endeavouring to prevent Communists of differoit L countries meeting. Chairman Ppllit then introduced a second foreign delegate. the Ercni.ii Cmuinunist .Mdllc. Laval, who like Stocker, was spirited away after delivering an address, and half an hour elapsed before pressmen were allowed to leave tho hall. The Communist leader. McManus, apologised lor detaining tho pressmen, lull declared the Government was responsible.

.labor conference. LONDON. June I. Great interest is attaching to iho conference on f l hursday l>ctwcon minors. ruilwaymon. loco engineers, transport, workers and engineering unions, when 1,071.00'J incmlters will discuss the millers proposal for an industrial alliance. It is suggested that some miners are inclined to take a canny attitude, owing to the triple alliance crash in 1921. and fear they are being courted because tho miners are lacing a crisis. None ol the I nmns committed their members at the I rcliminary conference. I hey desire details n.s to what obligations are incurring. Mineis on Thursday will propose the formation ol a ronnnittee to draft a plan. A MAT El R DEFINITrON. PRAGUE. ..Tune I. The International Olympic Congress limillv accepted the definition of an amateur, deciding that no competitor ran paratieipate in the games if tic ever knowingly be: nine a professional or received compensation for broken time. Further, that a professional in one sport, becomes ipso facto, a professional in all sports.