"STOP PRESS" NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16542, 28 September 1921, Page 12

"STOP PRESS" NEWS.

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FRKEZ[KG WORKS DIS B UTE. No settlement was renclied in the freezing workers' dispute, and the . whole ol‘ the wages question was r* correct to the Arbitration Court. CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. Henry Francis King (Mr L. A. Dougall), an elderly man, was charged at the - Magistrate’s Court with, having indecently assaulted a girl aged T2 years at Christchurch on September IT. The girl stated that she was assaulted while attending alone ,;v matinee performance at a picture theatre. .. DISARMAMENT AND THE EAST. LONDON, September 27. . f. . President Harding deprecates the introduction of single issues such as Japan's Far Eastern claims, as “tending” to neutralise an all-round reduction of armaments.. Meanwhile-a. statement with a semi-official suggestion .s published that an agreement on disarmament docs not depend absolute.y * on the settlement of the Far Easl ;rn problem. Nevertheless, it is understood! that tho United States presses :'or settlement of the Chinese “ open- { door ” and Shantung question, and also that Japan, while she is permitted the peaceful penetration of Siberia, should not annex the territory. The United States also desires Japan to he- * iieve that her opposition to immigration, is merely economic, and not racial. DRINKS TILL MIDNIGHT. LONDON, September 27 Magistrates are besic-ged with applications under the new Act enabling hotels to serve drinks with supper until midnight. The new law will operate from to-night. Nearly all hotels, especially in the West End, are preparing to return London to its pre-war gaiety. It is understood that Sir Ernest Cassell’s estate will amount to .£10,000,000. The Public Trustee will probably be the executor. THE BELFAST RIOTS. LONDON, September 127. An official communique relating to the Belfast outbreak, states that .it eight o’clock on Monday morning intimid&tors forced Catholic deck labourers to leave work on Queen’s Quay, and at eleven o'clock tho mob attacked Catholic workers employed on the football ground. One worker was shot. At three in the afternoon the mob forced Catholic, workers to leave the brick works. The ” Westminster Gazette’s” Belfast correspondent states to doubters of the responsibility for the disorders: “ J recommend tho official report which describes ten incidents between six in the. morning and ten o’clock in the wore the victims. In the tenth both ides fired.” Mr Townley (Coalitionist) telegraphed to Mr Lloyd George at Gairlocli that in tho event of further concessions i Mr de Valera that do not have Pari', mentary sanction, ho cannot contini to support the Government.