BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

GERMAN MINERS’ WAGE'! TO BE KKDI'O-.U. (Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] BERLIN, March 11.. The Rhineland and Westphalian mineowners have issued an ultimatum reducing wages lrom Hist. March. RUSSO-AEGHAN DISPUTE. DELHI. March 11. Xews has been received that the Russian troops have now vacated the Island of Oxtis. which two battalions of Afghan infantry have occupied. Thus the Russo-Afghan dispute, which at one time hung as a war cloud, is now on a fair way to a settlement amicably. WOMAN'S HEAD FOUND. LONDON. March 12. A woman’s head, roughly severed, was found in a parcel in a train at Guildford from Waterloo. '1 he police are investigating. WILKIN'S FLIGHT FATALITY. VANCOUVER, March 11. According to a telegram from Fairbanks. Palmer Hutchison, a news writer acompanying Wilkin’s Arctic expedition, was killed on Thursday, when an airplane propeller chopped through his body. CHINESE TURMOIL. TOKIO, Ala r< J li 11. In connection with the hostilities in China, three Japanese destroyers have been despatched lrom Bort Arthur to Tnku.

BERING. March 11. The remainder of Eongyuhsiang’s forces in Honan province have been driven to Shenoliow. where they are surrounded. Fengyuhsiaug’s supporter, Yuehweiehun, Governor of Honan, is reported to have been killed by members of a secret society called the Renspears. Cahocngti, who was Governor of Honan province, was forced to leave the Provincial capital. 'I he foreigners at Clumgslia have requested that a gunboat be sent in view of the threatening outlook. The Chang T-so Unites attempted to land from transports at the month of the Beilin river. FengynhsinJig’s troops captured nil of two thousand of them who landed.

N.S.W. GOVERNOR. LONDON, Afarch 11. The Colonial Office has no 1. received any suggestion from any source regarding Admiral Sir Dudley De (.‘hair’s resignation of the New South Wales Governorship or bis recall. The question of his resignation is regarded as being within Sir 1). De Chair’s persona] discretion. His recall is not even considered as being remotely possible. COBH AM’ft FLIGHT. ATHENS. Afarch 12. Cobham. (he aviator, lias arrived here. RELEASED. ROAIE, Afarch 11. TGI lis Lon has been released on ■ the King’s pardon. The Philippines have, challenged for tho Davis Cup.