SUGAR WORKERS’ DISPUTE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3549, 11 August 1920, Page 5

SUGAR WORKERS’ DISPUTE.

. AUCKLAND, August 10. The sugar \\'o“rkers -are endeavouring to enlist the .<yr'npathy of Pa.rlia.menr in their endeavour to secure high-;-r wages and be«‘f/ml; working condicions. A circular letter covering Various phases of the dispute, which thre.i:-.tens to cufnzinutc in :1 strike at midnight’. on Satuz'd~ay next, has been dnrawn 1114. and will be circularised {:ll’l]ol'J.g nfénlbel's of the *H(_)use. .

TOVVN SACKED AND PEOPLE ]\IASSA.CBED.

VLADIV()STOC'K, August 10.

The Government has received advices to -fhe efiect. that the Japanese residents a‘t Okhotsk, ‘:3. marine Siberian town, on tlle Sea of Okhotsk, have been massacred and the town burned. ’

' TROUBEE IN CALIFORNIA.

VVA SHINGTON, August 10.

The Mexi_cau_ Embassy announces that troops hzave been Gespatc-hed to Lower California for a campaign ito subdue the rebel Governor Czmtu. Fighrfing is expected in a wook’s time. Chinese and Japanese residents maintein neutrality _

WHOLESALE SMUGGLING.

NEW YORK; August _lo.

Liquor smuggling into United States from Canada Tia.s reached siich proportions that it has developed into large illega,l ctrafiic in other commodities. The Customs service is wholly inadequate to meet the situation. A small army. is essential to patrol isolated coastal spots. whence is smuggling from incoming ships and frontier regions. ‘ '