BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

A SUDDEN STRIKE

LONDON, Nov. 2. The whole of the telegraphic staff of (lie Marconi Wireless Company’s London terminal station struck suddenly, supposedly as the result of a notice being given on October ,11 tor tot initiation of the services of nine telegraphists. The Association of Wireless ami Cable Telegraphists in a statement, •ays that the strike involves all the Marconi Company’s London stations. Instructions have been given to the provincial staff to strike to-morrow. The stikers declare that the management violated the agreement hv declining directly to discuss the question of the dismissal of nine opera-

WEI.SH. DISASTER. LONDON, Nov. 3. Details of ltie Dolgarrog disaster how the night was one of unprecedented horror. The whole valley was overwhelmed by a raging torrent- from a lake fourteen hundred teefc above tlie sea level, which swept down the moonlain side fifty feet high with a tremendous noise. Many homes were along ■lie path. Parents grabbed their children from their bed-, and tied to safetv. When morning came the valley vas strewn with wreckage of houses, and furniture, and carcases of animals. Large quantities of wreckage were swept along the river Conway to the

sea six miles away. Regarding a report that a woman and nine children were drowned, five of the children are safe. The body , ,f one child was found floating oil a inaltress eight miles from the scene ■f the disaster. Tlie latest estimate is that, thirteen perished. Rescuers frequently waded up to their necks to -are those struggling in the torrent.. Their setf-sacrilice alone prevented a. vastly greater death roll. The valley is si ill a shocking scene ol desolation. A prelude to the Dolgarrog disaster -.a- furnished by terrilic explosions mused bv the bursting of the dam hanks. A sea of water swept down a gorge in a waterfall a thousand feet wide. The torrent caught many people unawares, engulfing the houses and drowning the occupants, amt sweeping the furniture into tlie river Conway, a mile away, ami thence to tlie sea. fen bodies have been recovered, hut twenty are missing. NEW ZEALAND CRITICISED. LONDON, Nov. 3. Striking statements were made by Constance Clyde in an article in the Empire Review. She suggested that the space-loving people ot New Zealand are more native and untrained than Britons, so that they lose their •ove of personal freedom, and submit to a reversion to feudal control amt to interference which would not tie tolerated in England, where corrective organisation would apply restraint. .Miss Clyde mentions the activities of the overgrown public service, and in this connection she cites a proposal to compel unmarried mothers to hand over their offspring to the State asylums. She suggest that New Zealand lias not a native or an alien race to do its service work. ! liereiore, New Zealand unconsciously wishes to breed its own race of serfs.

'the writer alludes to a number of rational children being kept as State slaves and as mental defectives. She picks out the ease of a girl who allegedly hole a child and then she was labelled as mentally below par and sent to an institution.

Miss Clyde, alleges that the money due to this girl was never spent oil her. and that the girl now works hard at felling trees. The writer states that here is a further instance of a ret urn in New Zealand to old barbarism in its Education Department’s new porposal that illegal children should ltccome its property uadi be liable to he handed over to either parent or to a State institution.

EMBARGO EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. LONDON. Nov. 3. ' The removal of the loan embargo in England becomes effective immediately. LATE DARREL FIGGIS. LONDON, Nov. 3. At the inquest on Mr Darrel Figgis the Irish writer, a verdict was returned of suicide while of unsound mind.