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Taihape Daily Times, 13 March 1919, Page 5

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BRITISH LABOUR PROBLEM

COAL MINES AND RAILWAYS

Received 11.45

LONDON, March 12. Mi Gisborne, of the South Waleg Coal Owners Association, i„ evidence stated the miners’ aerago wages throughout the United Kingdom in 1911 was Ss JOd daily, and in November, 1918, 17s daily.

The Railways Executive offered the railway employees 20 per cent above th pre-war rate as a standard. The employees demand that the war time wage be permanent.

REVOLTING BUTCHERY

Received 11.45

COPENHAGEN, March 12.

Horrible atrocities were practised at Lichtcnburg by the Bolsheviks. A Government soldier was thrown to the crowd who killed him with knives, and a woman carried round bis head in .triumph. The soldier was hacked to pieces by women. Government soldiers are now killing prisoners when captured.

MORE BOLSHEVIST RIOTS. SPARTAGIST. REVOLT IN HAMBURG. BERLIN, March 12. There are renewed riots at many German towns, and a Spartacist Revolt in Hamburg. Uknainan Bolshevists captured Kherson.

HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES

LONDON, March. 12,

A. German wireless states that there

is little change in te situation in Berlin. On Saturday evening the cavalry cleared to centre, of the city, but lighting continues in the suburbs, where the Spartacists are defending barricades. They have also seized the Hoetzow brewery, where they are nrepared to withstand attacks. The Government troops arc closing in on all sides. The artillery, including heavy howitzers, have begun a bombardment, while aviators drop bombs. Plundering continues in clertain suburbs. The Republican Guard ,n,t Neukoln plundered the barracks and joined the The disorders have shown that enormous quantities of arms and ammunition remain in civilian hands. Thb Government troops have begun a systematic search of the whole city.