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Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1925, Page 3

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ICIMC’S BIRTHDAY. LONDON, June 3. Congratulations on the King's .sixtieth hirtlulav began to arrive at the palace onrlv in tin- morning, including messages from all over the Kmpire. .Messages eaiee from lhe Prince of Wales and Prince George. The latter is en route to Weihanvei from Shanghai. The official celebration was the trooping ol the colours of the I lorsegunrds. .Marshal Fueii participate!! as representative of France. The weather was brilliant and the ground packed with sightseers. J COMM I"NIST ROCND-PP. illeeeived this day at 0.25 a.m.) P \ R IS, .! une d. ‘1 he ‘‘.Matin’s” Sofia correspondent says lue police held up traffic for eight flour i on Tuesday and completely smirched the city for the Communists still hiding: in the capital. They arrested a large number, including the chief of a baud which attacked King Doris iii April. THF DOCTOR STOCKKR INOIDKNT. ‘•Received tr.is da, ::i 9.25 a.m.' LONDON. .June 3. The assertion in Glasgow that a. member of the Reichstag, Dr Stocker, did not attend the (ommuiiixi Congress but was impersonated by a German resilient, i:a - been confirmed by Cologne { advices. Autliorntivc ( ommuiibt. cir-, cles t here lieeiare that neither Stocker i not any oilier (German ( omiimni-t went to Glasgow in consequence of the Briiish oilii ial embargo. !

Z. I.A Don; PROTEST. LONDON. June 3,

Ti.e Australian Press Association’s Geneva < orrespoiulent says the Labour oTii-e has received a eablegrtim signed ‘‘Glover, Warner and .Nash,” on behalf of the New Zealand Labour Alliance, addressed to the President of the Conference protesting again-J the New Zealand Government refusing representation to the workers at the International Labour Conference. The cable was published anil circulated, hut no reference was made to it in the (!.■- ha los.

CHINESE STRIKE AND RIOT. I’KKIN, Juno 3

din- Shanghai strike is spreading. All foreign mills are involvei!. also telephones, waterworks, munit-inal eleetrieilv department. and some foreign newspapers. The council is maintaining public services satisfactorily, with Tuber labour. A mob of three thousand attacked the Japanese ice works. Poli.-' guards fired on the rioters, killing cue and wounding five. Attacks oil indiviilual foreigners continue. .Rioters stoned tramears and several were injured. Women and many students from other centres are reaching Shanghai. Four platoons of British bluejackets and marines are landing ill the evening and a similar number in the morning. The ” (‘'.veiling News ” is the oiilv evening paper published. Ii is considered that the situation is not so grave. No doubt Chinese are feeling the cutting off of food supplies much more acutely Ilian the foreigners, the latter possessing large 10-uTvc.-. of imported foods. While Pie arrival of troops is relieving volunteers ami police .from a heavy strain, of continuous duty. thorn*, j does not, vet appear to be any common I ground for a compromise. Foreginers j are determined to suppress the riots, j while the Chinese are too excited to j listen to calm, counsel, and (he arrival j of fresh batches of frenzied students! reinforces the waverer-. Strailv rain I

to-night is again emptying the streets. Many attacked foreigners vverw rescued from outlying distri'ts hy active |ialrols. There have been further clashes in the central districts wherein rioters were killed or injured. The known casoallio, so far among Dm strikers arc twenty-one killed and sixty-live wounded. 'The defenders bad one man seriously wounded and several slightly Hurt. A foreign woman died from a blow on Idle head with a brick thrown when the rioters attacked a tram. Armoured ears were ruslmd to tlm western district where the rioters were concentrating from Cliapei suburb, Ihe Chinese control whereof, gives the Chinese a useful base lor operations against the settlement. The train service to Canton is entirely suspended by all three railroads entering Canton 'There is a large troop movement in the city and the situation is grave. Fighting is expected at any moment.

THE PRINCE’S VISIT. CAPETOWN. June 3.

The Prince of Wales arrived at Burbun in bright, warm sunshine and had a wonderful reception. Lli • whole town turning out. There was a continuous roar of cheering. The town was beautifully decorated and the fleet in the roadstead fired a royal salute. After a civic welcome, the Prince proceeded to Albert Park where is was enthusiastically greeted l.y fifteen thousand natJAPAX AND CHINA. FOREIGN OFFICE STATEMENT. TOKTO, June 3 Japan is willing to co-operate with the powers in preserving order at Shanghai to the extent of landing nm-rin-s. She vviss quite unwilling to entertain j lans extending to international control outside settlements. According to the Foreign Oflhe. the Japanese policy is not only to hold her own hands off Chinese sovereignty hut to oppose further encroachments on the part of others. Japan recognises the seriousness of the Shanghai situation spreading into a general anti-foreign movement, but nothing bits happened to date to alter her fundamental policy, namely assistance to establish a stable government, regaining complete sovreignty, and the surrender of extra territorial rights. This is the official attitude. A section of the press sees Bolshevik hands behind the students riots. INO LEST V ERBrCT. LONDON. June 3. An inquest was held at Paddington on Alexander Haynes, the retired draper of Dunedin, who collapsed in the street at Marylebone and died in the hospital. The widow said that they arrived in England on the 21101. May. Most of the 1 sisson .era. including l.er husband, titer leaving the port, said they were attacked by symptoms liko dysentery. Her husband on landing was very ill. He went out- for a walk from the hotel during the tollowiug morning and was found unconscious in the street shortly afterwaroa.

The Doctor attributed death to acute delirium accelerated by illness on tbe voyage and injuries sustained through falling in the street. A verdict was returned id accidental death. AT WEMBLEY. (Received this day at 13.30 p.m.l LONDON. June 3. One of Australia's largest rams caught nil English carpenter 1-ending while repairing a pen at Australian Pavilion at Wembley.

He immediately resigned the job saying he was not engaged ns a toreador. On Whit Monday sixty-five thousand people visited the New Zealand pavil. ion.