AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

STOLEN MOTOR CAR

TWO MORE MEN WOUNDED

(Australian Press Association.)

(Received tins day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 25

Two more men were arrested and are in the hospital wounded, as a result of the police firing on a car at Newtown. The motor car was stolen earlier in the evening. ATTACKED BY PIRATES. . SYDNEY, Aug. 25. Captain Hodgson of the Yetsliing relates how he became a prisoner to Chinese pirates. His ship recently left Hongkong with European passengers and IVo hundred Chinese, when suddenly the pirates made themselves known, producing firearms and taking control of the steamer. They locked up the captain and passengers and looted the cabins. The pirates forced Hodgson to navigate the ship to Bias Bay, a stronghold of Chinese pirates, where the booty was landed, together with several hostages from the crew. He heard nothing further of the luckless met, PRISONER ESCAPES, BY BURNING GAOL FLOOR. SYDNEY, Aug. 25. Deliberately endangering his own life, a man in Dungog lock-up set fire to the flooring boards arid, .escaped when a hole was burnt large enough for him to crawl through. Ho is still at large. - SERIOUSLY ILL. FEDERAL PRIME MINISTER. PERTH, Aug. 25. At a civic reception at Kalgoorlie, the Minister of Markets, Mr Maloney, said the Prime Minister, Mr Scullin, was so ill i i was doubtful if he will leave to-morrow on the Orama for London. ATTEMPTED ARSON. SYDNEY, August 25. Plans for a determined effort to burn a block of buildings in Bathurst Street were frustrated by the suspicions of a woman in the ground floor shop. She noticed two men leaving the upstairs premises from which she knew the occupants were absent. She informed the police who discovered the rooms soaked with petrol. The electric wiring, had been interferred with, and a string led down to the street door ready for a pull to cause a fusing of the wires and ignite the petrol fum es. The premises arq -now guarded, POLICEMAN FIRES AND WOUNDS MAN, SYDNEY, August 25. A policeman at Newtown boarded the running board of a motor car wherein were a party of young men today, and ordered the driver to stop. He was pitched off, whereupon he fired six. shots at the fugitives. James Lloyd, 18, was shot in the back and is in a critical condition. The car is believed to have been illegially used.