AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

WORK PROPOSED.

(Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 9.4 U a.m.) SYDNEY, -July 2-5. Thousands of the States’ unemployed skilled and unskilled, will obtain work |under the new plans finalised by the | Unemployment Council. About ±1320,OGO will be allotted to works to be car- | ried out and which include building of schools,, hospitals, sewerage and road construction. TROUBLE AT RELIEF WORKS SYDNEY, July 25. ' As a result of a mass picketing demonstration at Tempe relief works, five arrests were made. A violent scuffle took place between the police and the demonstrators during which one constable drew a baton to keep the crowd back. BURMA RIOT STORIES. SYDNEY, July 25. Stories of the days of horror during the Burma riots were related by Mrs N. Freeman, on arrival from Rangoon. Once four natives were caught by an infuriated mob near her husband’s house and dismembered before her eyes. The attackers used long cane knives and they cut off the victims’ arms to prevent retaliation in the next world. Another practice was to amputate every finger and arrange them in a circle around tlie corpse. Mrs Freeman entertained Kingsford Smith, Ulm, Chichester and Amy Johnson at Rangoon.

KETCH LOST. (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY. July 25 The Methodist Missionary Society’s auxiliary ketch, Bromilow, has been I lost at Samarai (Papua) with seven I members of the native crew. The missionary in charge, Rev. Lassan, and one boy were saved. N.S.W. RAILWAY LOSSES. ' SYDNEY, July 24. The New South Wales Railway Department is facing a loss of £70,000 per week, owing to slackness of trade. The question of reducing the train services is under eonsideraetion. DISCRETION USED. ADELAIDE,. July 24. Another daring attempt to escape was frustrated at Yateala prison today. John Enewhistle, a life prison-, er, was discovered on top of the wadi. He leapt hack into the prison yard when he saw a warden approaching. ACTING PRIME MINISTER. CANBERRA, July 25. Mr J. H, Steullin announces Mr .Fenton will act as Prime Minister during his absence at the Imperial Conference, Mr Lyons acting as Treasurer. TO SETTLE WAR DEBTS. AUSTRALIAN M.P.’S SUGGESTION CANBERRA, July 24. Speaking on the Budget, Mr Yates, a Labour Member, denounced the Commonwealth bondholders and protested against continued payments to them. He said:—“ln another ten years, we shall have paid interest to the bondholders equal to the full amount borrowed, and we shall still be indebted to them for the principal. We have paid two hundred and nineteen millions sterling interest on the war debt. What I would do is just what the bondholders have done to others—l would hand them back their securities and notes, and say you will get no further interest!”