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[BY ELECTEXC TELEGRAPH —COPVHI'WT.j HUNGER STRIKER DIES. NEW YORK, June 26.—As the result of fifteen days' hunger strike at Hollysprings, in Massachuetts, a prisoner, under ten years' sentence in the penitentiary died in the cell of a county gaol. The prisoner had been convicted of cruelly ill-treating his young son. THE CHINESE INSURRECTION. PEKING, June 26.—Some 400 Loyalists prevented the mutineers crossing from the old city into Eastern Kaloan. The Europeans are safe. About 100 Chinese were slain. "ALE-RED" CABLE ROUTE. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 26.—Mr. Goddart, representative gf the Western Union of telegraphs, has informed the Dominions Commission that his company is willing to lease one of their lines for an "All-Red" route on terms mutually satisfactory. FATAL ACCIDENT. LONDON, June 26.—Three sailors were killed and three injured on the battleship Monarch at Newquay. When hoisting a launch the tackle broke.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 June 1914, Page 6
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