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Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1925, Page 2

RFM-RINXIXG HAITI.K. NEW YORK. August id. A despatch | rom Lauderdale. Flotilla. describes a running battle oil the shore bet ween an alleged illicit liquorrunning launch and a coastguard 'inter. One ol the eivw of the launch was badly wounded and the others were captured. The launch it sell hurst into Humes when a bullet from the eoastcurler's machine-gun penetrated her petrol tank. Another despatch says that a second coastguard i titter captured a British >cLoej,t r. ; ■ Ae i:p. hound trout Nassau to Helize, near ti.e South West Pass, s.dd to he carrying dot) cases ol whisky. The captain of the Ae-op and lb" crew of six have been detained pi oiling investigation. Bonier. IN A BOLSHEVIK GAOL. LON DON, A ugust II Alter having siitiercd imprisonment for ten .lays at the hands of the Bolsheviks in Vladvoslok. Mr Sidnev >ut-‘‘hi*-i officer of the Glen Line ship Carnarvonshire, arrived in the Thames yesterday in the steamship Glenhorg. Ihe cell." said Mr Sitter, was filthy, and the one straw bed wa< in an appalling state. Food consisted of a piece ot black bread issued at neon and a can ot sour* at 2 p.m. and s p.m., which I and two other prisoners sipped in turn. "All applications for a mitigation of the horihle conditions were refused, as were my written requests to see the British Consul.”