CABLES.
HUME ANU'FOREIGN, Oy. Klocuio Teltgrapa -Copyi'lghi. Fei l'rcis Association.
Washington, October 5. _ The, State Department lias been informed that the Nicaraguan Government forces have recaptured Masaya. ' . . The American troops captured the town of Coyottepu, losing four marines killed and six wounded. ■ A score of Nicaraguans were killed, There haß been fierce fighting at Masaya, with heavy losses on both sides. Nicarsgman telegrams state -that 1000 Americans are marching to Loon, and further lighting, is expected. Mexico City, October. G, The rebels defeated 299 Rurales, killing 22 of them. Guerilla warfare is continuous in the Northern Zacatecas. New York, October 6. Mr Bryce flew for half an hour in company with- Burgess,, the. aviator. , Caleb Bragg won the international Grand Prix at Wauwatoßa in a Fiat carj averaging 69 3-30ths miles an hour. Jack Selig. who is connected with the Rosenthal murder, assassinated 5 Davidson, a fruit dealer, and has been arrested. 1 Madrid, October 6. ■ [Owing' to the brakes failing a 'goods train crushed through a-dead end into a waiting room at Alicanto. London, October 6. Mary Gawthorpe has proposed-- a women's national hunger strike beginning at midnight on December 25. She appeals particularly to the wives, sisters and mothers of members of > the Cabinet and'the House of Commons. -. ■ Bombay, October G, . The Salvation Army is raising £50,000 to establish an industrial institution and settlements for released criminals. £16,000 has already been collected. Berlin, October 6. Herr Zeiss, -proprietor of the Schikhan shipbuilding works, has endowed a workmen's benefit institution with £150,000. Alig, an aviator, and his mechanic, fell 200 metres at Johannisthal, and both were killed. Tokio, October 6. A mysterious fire on the 'battleship Mikasa, close to the magazine, was quickly extinguished. The outbreak is attributed to an incendiary, who committed'suicide, London, October 6. The 'divers find that they had lo-cated-a rock in mistake for the sunken submarine, and 'dredging still continues .to -ascertalin where- she is.
Pulleyne iB recovering, but Is Btill unable to continue 'his story. Experts are of opinion that seaweed obscured thei periscope and forced the 'boat to ascend, and that Pulleyne, coming on deck at the moment, saw the Amerika and signalled her approach, but too late. The collision probably exploded the air cylinders, wrecking the interior and killing the crew immediately. .
New York, October 6. By a collision at Philadelphia between three motor cars on a 'bridge the oar's were overturned and shat: tared, burying the occupants in their wreckage, Seven men were killed and two seriously injured. Berlin, October 6. The Hamburgi-Amcrika Compa/ny's Vahdalia collided with a floating dock in the Elbe and sank, The passengers were' saved, but a cook and a carpenter, who were below, were drowned.
Later in the day the same company's Graecia collided with a wreck and had to be beached.
New York, October 6. The Australians, playing at Philadelphia, scored 101 in' their first innings—Mayne 51. King took five wickets for 22 runs. Philadelphia scored 217 for Beven wickets-King 45.
■ London, October 6. The Springboks won the first match of their tour, that against Devon, by 8 points to nil.
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North Otago Times, 8 October 1912, Page 1
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