GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1920, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

RHODESIAN STRIKE OVER. ' By Telegraph Press Assn Copyright Capetown, March 29. . After a fortnight's duration the Rliodesian railway strike has ended, the management conceding a 25 per cent, increase in the men's wages. They originally demanded a 33 per cent, increase. FINANCIAL FRAUD ALLEGED. New York, March 20. Lawson, of "Frenzied Finance" fame, and his secretary, Van Riper, are amongst a score arrested in connection with silver dealings. Prices- advanced from a few cents to nine dollars, then came subsequent reverses and it finally tumbled when the arrests were rumored. The arrests caused a sensation. The At-torney-General is personally prosecuting Lawson KILTIES IN THE CAUCASUS. London, March 25. The Times correspondent a.t Rotterdam tells of the di:.covei'y hi the Caucasus of descendants "f the Scotch who landed at Trebizom] in the 15tli century. They lived in a village in the mountains' near Batoum, and were blue-eyed, red-haired, wore kilts and sporans, and played bagpipes made out of pig's bladders. They spoke a mixture of Caelie and Georgian. The Tartar correspondent, oilers to escort ethnologists to the village. CHINA AND THE SOVIET. Copenhagen, March -25. Advices from Vladivostock state that the Russian Soviet proposed to China to renew diplomatic relations, offering to hand over the Chinese Eastern Railway to China and renounce Russia's share of the Boxer indemnity.