Digest of Cables.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 180, 23 October 1903, Page 3

Digest of Cables.

o The decision of the Alaskan Boun- ! ilary Commission is expected. j The American Press announce that j ill the American contentions are gran- ! u-d, except that Canada is awarded the j t'ortland Canal. Canada is bitterly J disappointed, especially at losing the Lynn Canal, which is the gateway to the Klonydke. Sir N. K. O'Conor, British Ambassador at the Porte, recently made urgent representations to the Porte with reference to the inexcusable excesses on the Turkish side, alttfbugh Lord Lansdowne had admitted that the insurgents were guilty of serious outrages. Reuter states that Bulgaria and Turkey have agreed to disband 10,000 and 22,000 troops respectively. Four Japanese officers who were buying arms and ammunition at Krupp's works (Essen) have been recalled. The Japanese workmen at Port Arthur docks have been discharged, and the exodus from other parts of Manchuria continues. There is no excitement in Japan, the people apparently being confident of the Governmentss ability and policy. The latest Russian and Japanese orders for steam coal at Cardiff aggregate 50,000 tons. The battleships Prince George and Hannibal, while manoeuvring off Cape Finisterre with lights out, collided. The former was badly and the latter plightly damaged. Both vessels, assisted by the rest of the squadron, reached Ferrol. The Armenian Archbishop of Tiflis cursed the Czar from the pulpit, declaring him to be a cruel despot and a sacrilegious plunderer of church property. The congregation echoed his cries. The Cossacks arrested the archbishop and knouted the congregation. The National Liberal Federation have issued a manifesto denouncing Mr Chamberlain's recklessness, crudity of views, and unscrupulous use of figures. It expresses consternation at the sudden hurling of the fiscal system into the fierce cauldron of party strife.