VIRGINIA STRIKE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 97, 26 April 1922, Page 5

VIRGINIA STRIKE WAR.

200 MINERS ON TRIAL MEN CHAINED IN GANGS. NEW YORK, April 25. A message from Charlestown, Wcsfc Virginia, states that at the historic Courthouse where John Brown wae convicted of treason, as the result of a raid on the Free States, 200 miners, mostly mountaineer folk, are being tried for murder, arson, riot, and lesser crimes. The charges are the outcome of the coal strike and mine war last autumn. More than 700 indictments were retruned, but all the arrests .have not yet been made. The prisoners in Court were chained in gangs. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) SWAMP BECOMES RIVER. KENYA RAILWAY DAMAGED.

(Received 1.80 p.m.) CAPETOWN, April 25. Advices from Nairobi state that tt* whole Kenya province is cut off from Nairobi as a result of a subsidence in a papyrus swamp on the Thica railway. The swamp, which is miles long and hall a mile wide, suddenly broke up and ear-. Tied away the main Toad and bridges, and damaged the Tailway. The subsidence is believed to be the result of recent earthquakes in the vicinity. Water is pouring from subterranean caverns, and the swamp has become a rushing river sixty feet -wide. A nem valley has been created.—("Timee.")