BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1920, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

[Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] JAPS MASSACRED. (Received tins day at 9.30 a..m) VLADIVOSTOOK, August 10.—The Government has received advises to the effect that Japanese residents at Okhotsk have been massacred and the town burned. FIRE. Received August 10, 11.5 p.m. SYDNEY, August 10.—A fire at Hoskings and Co-.’s, drapers, in the city, caused damage to the extent of £IO,OOO. WARSHIPS. NEW YORK, August _ 10.—Five captured German warships which arrived to-day will be exhibited for twelve months and them sunk. They comprise a dreadnought, cruiser, and three destroyers. GOLD SHIPMENT. NEW YORK, August 10.—C«sepave the Director General of Frencn services in United States announced that Franco will ship five hundred million dollars of gold shortly. LIQUOR SMUGGLING. NEW YORK, August 10.— Liquor smuggling into the United States from Canada has reached great pro portions. It has developed into a large illegal traffic in other commodities. The Customs service is wholly inadequate to meet the situation... A small army is essential to patrol the isolated coastal spots whence is smuggling from incoming ships and frontier regions. SCIENCE CONGRESS. ■' SYDNEY, August , 11.—The fifteenth meeting- of the Australian Association for the advancement of science opens at Hobart on sth January. With, the* exception of a co-operative meeting held with I the British Association Jn 1914, | this will he the-first held, since ( 1913. It is expected that delegates will he present from all parts pf Australasia. POLAR EXPEDITION. NOME (Alaska), August 9. I Amundsen sailed on Saturday. His proposed course is west of W rangel Island towards the Siberian Islands, keeping in the open 'water until a favourable place is found to strike directly north, probably in the vicinity of the foundering of the Jeannette. He hopes to ■ train two years by this means. The .Jeannette was lost in drifting from Wrangel to Jeannette Island.