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Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[ "TTl** ’f | S|-.HV!( !•:. ] ATT ACK ON DRI'sES’. DA Ills. Sept. I. Ih‘* h I‘em-h t a i n-.-t is pla nti lie: a -I r,i::g attack to crush the I tru-.es. D'etieral Cam. din ha- 1,e.-u appoint!-,| t r»

command operation-. Sm-ida i- still heseiged. The reli-wing for.-.* retreated. and loiight ils wav to the base. 1 0-iteg live hundred wounded and prisoner.. and T'O killed.

another coal CRISIS London. Sent,

Tin* " Daily I herald" says; A new mining crisis is developing, owing to Die coal owners’ interpretation of the re cut trin-e. I lie miners were under Du* impression that their wages would tun I<* reduced, hut the owners claim that, truce provision thai tin* wages ■should not l*e reduced below the 11)21 agreement standard which v a- honoured. Is'eause the IH2I Agreement fixed the I'creen I ages to he d-voie-l to wages, blit left the district ha-ii- rates open to variation. Mr Cook (millet-' leader) sir- that, wage cuts ha*. ,* already l*een mad,- in seVrral ,11-ir et s. lie- * w - r-' action is creating a -ituali-m of ,-xireme delicacy. I 1 *N! '< 'N Sept. I. 11 is officially announced that Sir Herbert Samuel has 'em appointed Chairman, am! Mr Kenneth 1.,-.*. Sir William I!e\criihge and General Sir Herbert l-awreiee have been appoini c,| "leiiihers ~| the llmal ( ~mmis*e,u of ruqiliry into ihe I iudu-lry. M. CA 11.1. A UN's ELANS. I.ONIhi.N. Sepi, Ihr "Morning ll’a ri- , ~rn".

I'Undent stairs: M. ( aillnux. in a xlaleimmi on the -ider-t of tin- Hudget lor I'hjli says that ii i- proposed to lax heavily •'uniu-t iliab!,- point-.” lie expressu- , oiili.b i,,-,. |,i the t.Vnimn l-hder h. pay io I'rame mmi I!>.i:> an annual min ol lilteen hundred million gol-l mark- which will enable Fra nee io meet all in t erna 1 e ,n,i I gat unis. ( 'm- rent liabilities u ill he met bv reeeiji- demanding s.ierii: vs. Aj t a ilbilix declare- he .-.iuiing ai the I'e-e-l a.bl isi: men t of Frau e. ,:md I lmt lie hopes to work gradually to a leduel ion ol the piildie debt. HANGING OF RKOTNERS. I LON llt IN'. Sept. 3. Wilfred Fowler. who-e ,n t H sentence wa- cabled o;i .|i|| v ;J],i .. s hanged at Leeds to-day." ili- brother

Lawrence, will be hanged iheri' tomorrow. There were ten members of a Leeds gang tried in July for tin- murder lasi April id a man named Plummer. The crowd's evidence went to show that Plummer was warned that the gang were coming, 'mil. lie said: “J -hall have to -tick it.” When attacked by six. Plummer cried out : "I will take you one by one.” Fowler, one . f the accused, retorted.- You done our kid ! Me are going to do voit!” I’luinmer knocked Kos lei .' The gang |he„ buttered I*l tint titer. using rubber trunehemis and other weapons. The porseeiit ion tiointed <- n t that the ittry bad a diHienlt task in deciding whoso band dealt tin- lain! bayonet blow in the stomach, for bar of the prisoners' friends the courts were strongly guarded duriit"- tic- trial. Lawrence Fowler and Wilfred Howler were both found grille of murder am! were sentenced to death. Three ethers were convicted of miiuslniigbfer. and sentenced from ten to -eve,! year ' imprisonment. The live others were :iei|uitted. . ANOTHER DEATH SENTENCE. LONDON. Sept. 3. John Keen was sentenced io death for the murder of an Indian in 'Glasgow oil the twentieth of May. "1 be second accused was sentence! to seven years penal servitude for culpable homicide. and the third aren-ed to nine mouth- imprisonment for tut iniidai inn.