WORLD UNREST

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19913, 16 June 1936, Page 7

WORLD UNREST

EXTENSION OF STRIKES. COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ORDER. BELGIAN .\IIXERS IDLE. United Press Assni—Elec. TEL Copyright. (Received June is, 11.0 am.) BRUSSELS, June 15. A Committee of Public Order. under the presidency of Dr. van Zeeland, has been constituted to deal with the strikes, which are rapidly extending. A coal strike, involving 110,000, has become general. The steel workers have decided to Call a general strike at. noon. The strikers stopped trams from running in Liege.

RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT. ‘ ACTION IN SWEDEN. OBJECTION TO DEFENCE OUTLAY. United Press Assn—« Elem Tel. Copyright. (Received June 16, 11.0 am.) STOCKHOLM, June 15. The Swedish Government has re—signed owing to Parliament‘s decision in spend more money on defence. :DEATH PENALTY DEFIED. TERRORiSTS THROW B'OMBS. THE TROUBLE IN PALESTINE. ___.. ‘ United Press Imam—Elm. Tel. Copyright.‘ (Received June 16, 110 am.) JERUSALEM, June 15. The terrorists continue to defy the death penalty, setting tire to buildings and throwing bombs, mostly duds. Snipers wounded two Gordon Highlanders. The damage to Jewish property is estimated at £150,000. Arabs assert that; they are losing £1,000,000 monthly in trade and wages, but have not suffered much damage to property. CAUSES OF THE UNREST. INQUIRY BY ROYAL COMMISSION WHEN ORDER RESTORED. tomcial \Vireless.) (Received June 16. i p.m.) RUGBY. June 15. ‘ Tile Colonial Secretary declined to make a statement. in the House of Commons on the rauses of the re~ cent. unrest in Palestine, on the grounds that they would be among the matters for- investigation by the proposed Royal Commission. Replying to a supplementary question. Captain Ormtshy—Gore declared emphatically that the Commission will only be set up when law and order are fully restored in Palestine. PARIS “ STAY IN " STRIKES. A RAPID IMPROVEMENT. __ i WATERFRONT MEN STILL OUT. United Press Assn—Klee. Tel. Copyright. (Received June 16. 11.45 am.) LONDON. June 15. The Paris correspondent of the Times says: “ Stay in" strikes have virtually ended. The insurance clerks are expected to resume to-morrow. ,- A majority of the department stores are still occupied. but the end is believed to ‘be in sight. The position in the provinces is improving with equal rapidity. Four thousand dockers and watermen are still idle in Paris, and those at Bordeaux and Dunkirk have not resumed. SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED. CLASIIES W'i’i‘H FASCISTS. ‘ (1 Press ASHLVEIN‘. Tel. Copyright. “me MADRID. June 15. Three persons are known to he dead and [\\o seriously injured as the result of disturbances in Spain on Sunday. Extensive dmnnrzr \\'us done to u retil‘ \vay rros>ing at Lnnxroo, O\iedo, by a bomb. 'i‘hr civil nuard al t'lnrrzei, near .lzlen, rrported that one man was liillrd and many \\ere injured in it clash between Fascists and Marxists. There were many casualties, including one death, in fighting nt Santandrr between Fos—clsis and Lininmunisis. Senor .\liguc Alrezur. director of the ‘niagnzine l-Ispana, and it nieniher ot‘ the 'l‘raditionalist Party was shot and gravely wounded us he was entering his house.

It is reported that at Carrascosé a guard shot and killed a Socialist youth ul'lel‘ a heated political discussion.