KOREA.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1642, 20 May 1919, Page 9

KOREA.

DEMAND FOR INDEPENDENCE. By Cable — Press Association — Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rec. May 20, 1.20) PARIS, May 12. The Korean delegation has petitioned the Peace Conference, claiming liberation from Japan and the reconstruction of Korea, as an independent State. The delegation declares that the Treaty of Seoul of 1910 was dictated under circumstances of force, which upset its validity. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. A TRAP ACCIDENT. Ono of the two little girls named Williams, who were thrown from a trap at Highfield on Saturday and were admitted to the Ashburton County Hospital, has had her left arm amputated below the elbow. Neither has fully recovered from the shock. RUN OVER - BY CART. The returned soldier, Daniel Sullivan, who was admitted to the Ashburto . County Hospital on May 12, as a result of a wheel of a cart passing over him, died on Saturday evening. The accident occurred at Rakaia. He was I alighting from a cart when his foot slipped owing to the horse moving for-; ward, and he fell under the wheel. FO&T CRUSHED IN LIFT, John Tindali, a boy employed by Aulsebrook and Co., caught his lett foot in a lift this morning, crushing two toes badly. He was treated as an out-patiant at the Christehurch |h>syital. He resides at 120 Stanmore Road. THROWN FROM A TRAP. Whilst driving into Christehurch about 5 o'clock last evening, Alice Tobeck, a married woman, residing at Tai Tapu, was thrown from her trap in Lincoln Road. She was taken to the Christehurch Hospital suffering from injuries to the head and shoulders, but these were not serious. GORED BY A COW. Mrs King, who resides at Bromley, was treated at the Christehurch Hospital today as an outpatient, suffering from injuries to her arm, through being gored by a cow. It appears that the cow, which had'recently calved, had just been purchased. Along with another woman, Mrs King was engaged in trying.to persuade it to enter the bails. It suddenly turned on Mrs King, its horn ripping the muscles of the arm. FALL FROM" A CHAIR. Press Association. MASTERTON, May 19. The three-year-old daughter of Mr Vivian Donald, of Masterton, fell from chair this evening and suffered hemorrhage of the brain, from which she died shortly afterwards. FALL OVER A CLIFF. _• WANGANUI, May 19. An accident which terminated fatally occurred on Mr Killick's farm at Mangamahu on Thursday afternoon. Thomas Cook, a shepherd, was employed with five other men sowing grass seed on rough, hilly country. About 3 o'clock he was heard to call out that he felt very giddy, and almost immediately afterwards he fell over a small cliff, ! landing on the back of his head. The I injured man died at the hospital to-day, | the cause of death being concussion of the brain. Deceased was married.