“STOP PRESS” NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16416, 3 May 1921, Page 10

“STOP PRESS” NEWS.

for late news received f after the paper has £orir, to press.) LATE CABLES. LON DON, May 2. j he House of Commons, by 17© to I 22, approved of the decision of the i. - vdriunent t.o call up 25,01)0 naval reservists to protect the mines. Reports of growing' hardships are coming in from all parts of the count - try. East Lancashire, particularly, is in a terrible plight. Accumulated stocks of coal have been exhausted, and street lighting is suspended. The tram scr--7 vice is reduced to two days per week. Strike pay has ceased. Two thousand five hundred firms in Leeds have closed down for want of electricity for power. “ Yo surrender '* was the keynote oi May Day meetings in the South. Wales coalfields to-day, out the majority of the colliers are apathetic and. content to follow the leaders without publiclv questxoning the wisdom of their speeches. ■ The general estimate is that it will : bo at least a month before the miners ; feel the pinch of hunger, as they are ■ 'veil used to strike's, and are prepared ‘ tor them. Other unemployed, however, . are suffering. ! Mr R. Smillie broke his silence at Larkhall to-day. He said lhal ho , hoped the miners would not alter themselves to be Sriven to accept the substantial reductions which the owners propose, *VTASHIXGTO.V. May 2. It is learned authoritativelv that Mr ' C. E. Hughes, Secretary of State, has commumiicated to the French Ainb:.--sador, 31. Jasserand, that, the ITm. i States is opposed to any stops which J will ** prostrate Germany.” s iM

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. At I o’ciock there had been n.; fur titer elections to the city Council. Tin Returning Officer and,his staff are now engaged in the work of distributing the votes of Mr C. Buchanan, who hat been eliminated. Hospital Board—Mr H. B. Sorensen has been declared elected to the Hospital Board, in addition to Mr Archer and Mrs Herbert.