BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

i -.'V 1 (Australian and N.Z.,Cable Association) r ’ (v ■ \ .KOREAN PROTEST “' , ’ , x J*- ’// TOKIO) April 27. . Fifty- Korean, found lying with ' their necks on a rail waiting for an express, were removed , and arrested, in . the Hachioji district. They com- ’• ; pVip’ed contractors employed. .(Ai/trapk ; I work, who, believed themselves | swindled, and .‘sought revenge by. wholesalbvsuicide.' They were on, the verge of starvation. • ? ABDUCTION . CASE.'; ; ; v - ' . ' ' 11ELHJ, ’ April’ 27. . Tile trial o>;,the nine accused of the Mumtaz case has commenced at Bombay before a spe.cial- jury of the High G.o'urt. To-day's hearing’-was d’eV'bte'd' to a re-statenicnf: of the' case for fhb' prosecution, and fhej eyidlejice. of ta& who despribed her t)i,e xVlaharajah’s mistress, and-later with JBawla. \ , • - / ' r -\-. AERIAL TRAGEDY; j ■ ' PARIS, 'April 27. Ixois . Jacq(iard> . JRAyell-known .injjitaryi aviator, ’-'whq recently was de. . mobilised, purchased’ a cafe iu in qjarthe’iishjp with’ a’ribther 'rdstdiiipapf'' v keepiW.;’ of Parts. They, purchased ,‘a hydroplane, which they, intended tojise ils all,advertisement, offering w free ri.de • to 'ativ’ customer vmo spent/iuore ft 1 louis. JaVquai-d piloted Inst partner and ; ii cusipin’er oh tiles' first HightW|ien /jsci’bssirig the .river .Saotib '.the ' machine ? nose-dived, and crashed intp a wall, killing all three. ” • - - < ’’ RAILWAY CRISIS? /; 'V '. : LONDON April Bobbie, Presidept of the Natidift.l, Union ,bf Railwaymen, speAking.' - .aF 'flackiTall,’ predicted 'an .early crism, .aiid; unparalleled ‘ situation-, jp the) tajlwayk world. 1 He said that jtlje mejr.| w.opfcl present to tjie companies the first programme of minimum 1 condir) ti.ons/ever .demanded, including all the, , ’ of Great Britain. He' further; predicted, that/ the companies? would; reject the. prograbime, Tim complained that , they would’-have pay dividends .out of res^iyb;.funder but it Was better to pay wages put of’ tjie reserve, than pay dividends .to-,^' those whp do not ' • ’