BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.} LONDON. Jan. 7. Five hundred refugee British women and children were evacuated irom the stricken areas, l-ocal British are ari uiging for accommodation privately. Firms are caring for the families of employees. The majority are empty handed having deserted their homes and belongings at a minute’s notice. Diver boats are returning to Hankow immediately after coaling in case of emergency. Britain’s ultimatum is not confirmed, but it is definitely known that Cameron, the Hankow Commander is seeking wider powers, protesting that lie is unable to handle the situation with tlie means at his disposal. The cruisers Calisle and Vindictive from Hongkong, are expected to remain below Hankow, due to low water and to send a combined expedition by gunboats, meeting on arrival and making the situation temporarily quiet, making the unexpected success of the evacuation much restricted.

ITALIAN FAIIGII ATION. ROAIK, Jan. 7

Emigration statistics for 1926 show 279.357 left Italy, a decrease of forty thousand compared with 1925. The Emigration Department under Alussolini’s order is improving tlie quality of emigrants by means of technical schools and workshops, and also doing their utmost to prevent clandestine emigration, to ensure emigrants are properly equipped.

POLAND’S FLEET. WARSAW. Jan. 7. An important stage in Poland’s maritime history marked the ceremony of hoisting the Polish flag on five vessels of a new commercial fleet at Big Newport, Gdynir, which only recently was a small fishing village. COALHEAYER’S EXPLOIT. BERLIN, Jan. 8. The coal heaver, named Harry Domela. who masqueraded successfully as Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, as Baron Yon Korff, and also as the Prince of Leivan. was arrested as he was about to enter a train at Cologne with other Foreign Legion recruits for Metz. Harry Domela toured Thurigen as the eldest son of the ex-Crown Prince, and he also occupied the Royal box at the Gotha theatre at a special performance in his honour. Eihrry accepted boxes of chocolates from (actresses and he was entertained at a State banquet. When difficulties arose lie disappeared.

Domela was equally siiccessfulv elsewhere. under other titles, until his exposure* set the police tin motion throughout the country. Then he enlisted in the Foreign Legion. He admitted his impostures und boasted of his successes. MEN ENTOMBED. LONDON, Jan. 7. . Six men were entombed eighty feet below the Thames at Deptford, where a shaft was being sunk for a compressed air connection with a new electricity generating station. Water rushed in and cut off the workers, two of whom were rescued. Hope Ids been abandoned for saving (lie others. GERMANS MOVE. BERLIN. Jan. 8. A German determination to exploit the present anti-American feeling existing in Nicaragua and to push German trade in Centgil and Southern America, is apparent in the newspapers here, which unanimously condemn the present United States policy. The "Lokal Anzeiger” openly welcomes the possible anti-United States boycott in Latin Amerida.

.) UVENIRE CRIME. TERRIBLE MURDERS BY BOYS. LONDON, Jan. 8. A disturbing sequence of juvenile crime was revealed in to-day’s courts. Firstly, a boy named William Sliillibeer, II years of age, was committed for trial for the murder of the bov Albert Hannah, aged 13. The evidence showed that Hannah was a member of the “Red Hand Gang” a band of young hooligans wearing a red Wind beneath their coats. They attacked Shillibeer, who it is alleged, fatally stabbed Hannah in the course of the brawl.

Herbert Crowlev, aged thirteen, was remanded at Clerkenwell on a charge of attacking his mother and two-year-o’d sister with a bottle. He was alleged to have confessed that he saw his mother and sister lying in bed and something came over him, causing him to strike both. His mother’s jugular vein was severed, and her condition is

critical. Another boy, Wilfred Reeves, aged sixteen, was remanded at Cheltenham on a charge of murdering a seventy-year-old woman, whose body in a teririblv battered state was found in a creek.

A band of lads, averaging thirteen years of age, and belonging to "The Phantom Gang.” for robbing mid terrorising. were bound over at Manchester.

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