BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 January 1924, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

lAuotrahan and N.Z. Cable GAS EXPLOSION. NEW YORK, January 29. At Pawtucket, two brothers nained Conway, seeking a gas escape, lighted I a candle. The explosion destroyed their own cottage, and an adjoining boardinghouse, killing all the inmates of both, numbering fifteen. BOMBAY MILLS STRIKE. DELHI, January 29. ' All mills in Bombay are now idle. The strikers number 90,000. The managers state that the mills will be closed till February 4. If work is not then resumed unconditionally they will be closed for another fortnight. PALESTINE OUTRAGE. I JERUSALEM, January 28. Two British soldiers were killed and ) a motor car looted by a highwayman. The looted car contained stores. The occupants were Sergt. Ma Walker and Quartermaster Sergt. Dunn, pf the' Duke of Wellington’s regiment, pho were both killed. The driver was injured. '. f THE NEWEST FASHIONS. * LONDON, January 30. Paris and London designers have agreed that skirts must be shorter, some barely reaching the knees and having a slightly hobble effect. This is probably the first occasion that fashion has had to bow before obstinacy. Evening dresses will remain long. ' V STUDENTS AS THIEVES. ■ NEW YORK, January 29. Three masked students belonging to the University of Montana, entered the Post Office at Missoula) ranged the officials at the point of guns against the wall, stole £6OOO and escaped in a car. A citizens’ posse pursued and captured them within an hour, and recovered the money intact. < DARING JEWEL THEFT. . LONDON, January 30. Two daring jewel thieves with.a hammer smashed the window of Ogden’s, in Duke Street, before closing, and snatched £BOOO worth of jewellery. They crammed it into their pockets, mounted bicycles and escaped; despite an exciting chase, in which hundreds of West Enders participated. ULSTER BOUNDARIES. LONDON, January 29. President Cosgrave, speaking at Dublin, announced that the Free State Government lias accepted the invitation of the British Government to a conference at Downing Street on Fri-, day, in regard to the Ulster boundary question. Sir J. Craig and two other North Ireland Ministers are also attending Friday’s conference. THEFT FROM PRINCE. ' LONDON, January 29. A man entered a West End police station, and produced part of, Prince George’s jewellery. The man stated that- he had read about the robbery, but he did not explain how he caine into possession of the jewellery, Scotland Yard officials believe that the restoration was due to the underworld's tradition that robbing the Royal family is an abhorrent offence, derogatory to the thief, whose fellow criminals exert influence to secure restoration.

JAPANESE AFFAIRS. TOKIO, January 20. Estimates show that the Government’s share in the restoration of Tokio, Yokohama and other devastated towns will be nearly a billion yen. The Diet resumes to-morrow. The . want-of-confidence motion will be taken on Thursday. The political parties are holding services in various temples appealing to the spirits of the great! dead to assist them in solving the complications of the threatened crisis.