"STOP PRESS” NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19814, 4 December 1919, Page 10

"STOP PRESS” NEWS.

f° r kt* new* lifter the paper has Rone to ureas). ABANDONED MLXE OX FIRE. Vi ESTPORT, Decumber 1. Tho ok'i Soddonviilo State Colliery I afire. lingo volumes of smoko an flame aro issuing to a height of fifty feet. The mine was abandoned, sain tho plant removed, in IOH. LATE CABLE NEWS. LOXDOX. December 1. A message ivom Roval dated November SO, reports that following or. tie; latest, a cries of 1 •.olitical murders in Potiograd tbo Beds arrested, between COD and liuO persons connected with thvco anti-Bolshevik organisations. Fischer, a member of ilto German Sucret Service, denounced Blisatov. an ox-soldier, who acted ns n connecting link between the organisations. Elisa rov veinsed to give information. Tortures were indicted with thumbscrews, lud strips ot his th-.-h were on t off and baked in his presence. Tho torturers secured the names of many auti-Boishe-.visst officers. British agents estimated that the Beds executed over 1300 persons in the Petrograd district in November. Th e recent stages of (he tragic history illustrate the cynical German plan first to .-oenni the .Mtviniiumii.il i,c, the linesian 1 niei'i-'encft officers, anfl then to holray the Bolsheviks themselves. LOXDOX, December 1. Official: Tho result of (he. AVd-li Miner.-’ ballot on the question ’ ol a strike us a protest against the paynun'. of income tax was; -For Tti.WT; against., 72.537. The Miners’ (’imiuil decided to, deter the tieclaralion of a strike pending vonlvCciivv of • ;>.• Miuer.-' .Federation, FAB IS, Dcccniebi: X Tho iSupremo Council adopted Maishal loch's resolution calling upon Gei- : many to suppress military organi-mnni; ; <-msd contrary to the Feaee Treui, ; terms. : BOME, December 3. Tho Ixing, accompanied by •; j,. i Queen, opened I’arliamcul. He ini'i as enthusiastic reception trout the uoi Socialists. When tile senator.- and de pnlics were taking their seals tho Socialists raised a cry, Long Live Socialism!’ 1 and all left the Chamber. After their departure a striking ovation v.;e | accorded their Majestic-, who were ’ j limit Daily cheered. The dens miration i was lent w. e ! i". ill- stive’- when the" j were 'reluming to the Qiuriuai, v.hcrc t tho Bing appeared on the balcony three 1 times in iv-pom-e to tho acclamations o; [ ; the crowd, , i i 1 ) ; 5 ; 11 • I l I i ) r r > ' T'A ‘-"pTi’l tT('■ X Dc-- ■•meor 3. Kighty-toiir official- i • ’be fniiril 1 Milieuorffi R America have been sumj. limited at the criminal scs.-iou- for conS tempi of Court, ari-ing from violations of an anti-siriho injunction. LOXDOX', December 3. ■S e Germany has otfered to sign the t? Treaty if the Seapa eondition- are elim- ._ in a tod. g, -\-S11 1X(1 i'l.)X. Deecembur 3. Senator Ashurst, in the Senate, said hj file United Flutes ought immediately to. d mobilise, in view of the threatenin'.: G character of Mexican force- on the l > American holder. .For live years tin United Stales had stood unheard of in suits, and o light. a least (o pivucel Amcrleans within America’s holders. Senator Fall, in tin; Senate, roi’evrinn to Bolshevist, literature, said that Alex- ■ j I- ieau diplomatic: dllrcers in the ’United J Slates had clislribnled a- book entitled >t anil or was an Australian. Arthur Tnomsen. am! ike mask deleinled ihe IR ~ tooeinmciu. Senator hall sub-eon.m;iv ’S admitted that the Stale Department l P hold proofs that President Garran/.a anproved of Thouisou’a hook, it- SUPREME COUBT. F-iiik Dixon, a- stock dialer, sued to Ale r,- Ann Dv-on for tb” pn ; v nai ■ . a -ujotor-cfr ’..ihied at .3130. After !n aving evidence the Magistrate entered judgment lor tho plaintiff with tosh, MAGISTRATE'S COURT. 1 Frank W. G. llaslam, a sheep-farm-T, of Rapier, claimed Rom 1. AV. M’Ciinteek, garage proprietor, Christ- , church, a.,1 j.-, in respect oi the sale of a motor-car :or plaintiff by tho defendant. Judgment was entered lor tho plaintiff for tho amount claimed, with costs. j METIIVEX RAGES.

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