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HUNGER STRIKE. ' ABANDONED BY COMMUNISTS : INFLAMMATORY STATEMENTS ISSUED. Australian and N.Z. Press AssoeiatioiK. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Imprisoned Communists have grWttup the hunger strike and inflammatory statements to this effect have been issued by headquarters. • They deeJare the capitalists would benefit by their deaths and the real object of Communism would be defeated. The statementalso attacks Prime Minister Lang and, the Government for; keeping their, mem- q hers in prison. GERMANY’S REPARATIONS. / " • LARGE SUM PAID. Australian Press Assn —United Service* w (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. id, Mr .Snowden states that Great Britain’s receipts from the German reparations for the year ending 31st August* 1930, totalled £15,380,000. The rest of the Empire’s share was £2,160,000. ATLANTIC LINER ABLAZE, EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND. BURNT WHILE IN DOCK. Australian and N.Z. Press Association* ■ (Received 11.30 a.xn.J , LONDON, Dee. 1& A fire broke out on the famous oltl; ; Atlantic liner, the Empress of Scotland, while she was docked at, Blyth Harbour. The vessel blazed so quießfly that the flames burst through .the four decks and in a couple of hours only the shell remained. Eight men who were aboard escaped, by the barest margin, but lost all their effects. •
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2426, 11 December 1930, Page 5
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