BOMB IN KOREA.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 210, 4 September 1919, Page 5

BOMB IN KOREA.

AIMED AT JAP GOVERNOR. EXTENT OF THE RIOTS. f (Received 1.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 3. Advices from Korea state that a bomb w.-.s thrown at the Governor-General, Viscount Saito. Twenty were wounded, including one American. — (A. and N.Z.) A' Seattle journalist who lias arrived from the Orient says that the Americans greatly exa-rfrerated the Korean trouble. After investigation he found that the difficulty amounted to 'no more than riots witnessed in cities oi America when rioters were clubbed into submission by the police. The trouble really amounted to passive resistance by the Koreans, and the Japanese retaliated, with the result that a number were killed.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.) NATIONAL SUICIDE. THE TWO-CH3LD FAMILY. SYDNEY, September 3. At a Board of Trade inquiry which is endeavouring to fix a living wage, Father O'Reilly vigorously denounced race suicide, for which be blamed those women who would not. allow the bringing up of a family to interfere with their social obligations. Dr. Arthur said that the two-child family meant national suicide. Other witnesses stated that the families of industrial workers were much larger tlian those in better circumstances. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) MASONIC TEMPLE.

IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN. t>

LONDON, September 3

The Grand Lodge of Freemasons today decided, on the motion of the Duke of Connaught, to appeal for funds from the brotherhood throughout the world to erect a Masonic temple as a central home of British freemasonry and as a perpetual memorial to brethren who have fallen in the war.—(A. and N.Z.) " COMMONWEALTH LINERS, LAYING THE FIRST KEEL. LONDON, September 3.

Mrs. Larkin, wife of the London manager of the Commonwealth Shipping Line, laid the keel of the first of the two Commonwealth steamers building at Barrow. Provision is being made on these vessels for 720 passengers, and also for state rooms for special passengers.

Sir James McKechnie, cliairman of Vickcrs, Limited, referred to the cere.nony as the formal beginning of the peace manufactures of the Yickers firm. It also marked the forging of a link in the chain binding the great Empire.

Mr. Larkin, responding, said he believed that shippers, merchants, and people generally would come to recognise that the establishment of the Commonwealth's steamers was for the public weal.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

The Commonwealth's big shipbuilding policy was inaugurated in July, when arrangements were completed for tho building at Barrow-in-Furness of three great steamers for the Commonwealth Line, all of them bigger than any mercantile vessels yet seen in Australian waters. The contract with the great shipbuilding firm of Messrs. Vickers provides for. the construction of three vessels uniform in type, and each l of 22,500 tons displacement. Their cargo space is to be about 000,000 cubic feet, and of this nearly 400,000 will be insulated space. They will be twin-screw geared turbine vessels, driven exclusively by oil fuel, and it is intended that they shall be the speediest cargo carriers on the Australian route, and, in fact, as fast as any exclusively cargo-bearing vessels afloat. These ships are not intended for passenger traffic. In their construction excessive draught is to be avoided by giving the ships a particularly wide beam, this being 6S feet, while their length will be 530 feet. Mr. Larkin states that every care has been taken to ensure that the vessels shall .be able to enter the whole of the leading Australian ports without any difficulty. Their' loaded draught will be 29 feet nominally, but in the ca3e of vessels of these dimensions they are seldom loaded right down to their carrying capacity. The first of the three ships to be constructed»by Messrs. Vickers is to be delivered in about eighteen months' time, and the others should be ready at intervals after tiwkt of three or four months esuQi • g