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Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2578, 29 July 1922, Page 5

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AMERICAN STRIKE INCREASING VIO LENCE MASS MEETINGS CALLED By Cable-Press Association-Copyright (Received li a.m.) NEW YORK, July 28. The violence of railway strikers is increasing all over the country. A guard was killed at San Bernardino, California. At Concord, New Hampshire, troops fought the strikers, but there were no casualties, though numerous shots were fired. Several workers attacked stables at Chicago. At Charlton, lowa, a striker was shot, dead by a guard. Several negro strike breakers were wounded by strikers in. an armed attack at Macon, Georgia.

According to a Chicago telegram the Industrial Council lias called mass meetings in every city in the States in an effort to arouse public sentiment to demand further investigation .into the Herrin mine massacres. EXCURSION STEAMER SUNK RAMMED BY JAP. LINER ALL ON BOARD SAVED By Cable-Press Association-Copyright VANCOUVER, July 27. At Seattle, the Osaka Shosen Kaisha liner Hawaii Mam rammed and sank the excursion steamer Cali'sta. All the passengers and crew of the smaller vessel were rescued. The Hawaii Maru collision, which was the fourth in the last fortnight, was due to smoke from forest fires ashore. ZEPPELIN POE AMERICA . TO BE BUILT IN GERMANY BERLIN, July 27. The Ambassadors 7 Conference authorised the Zeppelin Company to construct an airship for the United States exceeding the dimensions prescribed by the Allies for German airships. The new airship, is rigid, and has a capacity of 70,000 cubic metres, her length being 200 metres and her speed 125 kilometres (75 miles an hour). IRISH REBELS DE VARERA COMMANDS REBELS. LONDON, July 27. The rebels arc concentrating their strength, under de Valera’s personal command, between Fermoy and .Waterford, and are apparently preparing for battle. BROOKLYN BRIDGE REPLACEMENT RECOMMENDED By Cable-Press Association-Copyright. (Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 28. Engineers report that the States Brooklyn Bridge has been weakened by shifting cables, owing to the unantici-. pated traffic strain of the last forty years. They have recommended that the bridge be replaced. - . A GALLANT SOLDIER GIVES HIS LIFE’S BLOOD • -v, By Cable-Presa Association-Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) MANILA, July 28. ... Army headquarters has announced that an American soldier, Sergeant Andrew Penland, gave ten ounces of his blood for a transfusion operation, in an attempt to save Admiral Dinner* osq’s life. Penland-has been thanked by the British Consul-General.

FINE PUTTING LADIES’ CHAMPIONSHIP PARIS, July 27. In the final of the ladies’ open golf championship of France, played at Dieppe, Miss Bastin beat Mrs Cnvin by five lip and four to play. The winner took only one putt on seven consecutive greens.