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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1926, Page 1

PRISON FIRED. VANCOUVER, September 4. Seattle telegrams report that the main building of tho Washington State Penitentiary at Wallaivarea, including the cells, were destroyed by a fire which raged yesterday afternoon and all night, till it was extinguished early this morning. During the liiglit one thousand convicts were kept under the guard of the State Militia in the recreation grounds of the Prison. The fire originated through the convicts hurling a burning object into a ventilating fan. The guards this morning foiled ail attempt to start a second blaze in an automobile license-plate factory attached to the penitentiary. PERSIAN TREATY. LONDON, September 5. The “Daily News” declares a Turco-Russian-Persian treaty will he unwelcome to Britain. It is a further sign that Persian sympathies are swinging against Britain and is also due to antiBritish feeling in Turkey. BELGIAN STRIKE. BRUSSELS, Sept. 3. A strike has arisen in tlio Belgian collieries from a novel cause. The workmen in three of tho mines decided to protest against certain disciplinary measures by abstaining from work oil three successive Mondays. Thereupon, tho employers "closed the works on three successive Tuesdays, A complete deadlock now prevails.