HOME AND FOREIGN

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12683, 22 December 1906, Page 9

HOME AND FOREIGN

Vtdtad Pwss k**°eiaiia>*-r*r Msetrio _-!«_T_ph~C<>pyritM. MB BALFOUR ILL. LONDON, December 20Mr Balfour is confined te hia bed, suffering from influcnaa. A NAVAL TRAITOR. James Abbott, a naval signalman at Chatham, was sentenced to five yearer" imprisonment for trying to sell the signal book which disappeared some weeks ago. MARVELLOUS FEAT OF SURGERY. VIENNA, Deoember 20. Dr. Ziron, of Vienna, after removing a boys damaged eye, transplanted the oomea to a Wind man, who is now able to read and work. MOROCCAN MISRULE. MOROCCO, Deoember 20. Foreign diplomatists have asked the Moroccan Government to dismiss tho chief, Raisuli, owing to tbe cruel administration of his governorship. ["Tlie forbearance of the European Government- may be strictly moral," wrote the Tang.er correspondent of "The Times" on November 3rd, "but, at the same time, it is exasperating. To-night Tangier is in absolute d-u lines* iwcauee Uaisuli's men have ck)M?d the bunding containing the pump cf the Spanish Electric Light Company, and no one dares to interfere. The company refused to pay blackmail to Kaisuli, who, in return, refuses to allow the town to be lit. I was present when the incident occurred. Uaisuli's representative himself nailed strips of boards across the doors of the Company's building, and daring anyone to remove them. He was accompanied by a band of followers all armed with rifles. When a protest was lodged by the Spanish Legation the Sultan's representative sent an official, who removed tho boards, but almost immodiately Raisuli's men replaced them. The Sultan's officials inform mc that they are powerless to do anything, as any attempt will be met by reprisals on the part of Raisuli's men, and bloodshed will ensue. They dare not move a single soldier or*act in any way." From this and other reports it seems aa if the Sultan is much too weak to remove Raisuli.] SUPPOSED PHANTOM VESSEL. NEW YORK, Deoember 20. Navigators in the rici__ty of Remaire Strait often reported a phantom ship, and several craft were wrecked in going to assist the supposed vessel. The United States Hydrographio Office has, however, solved .the mystery,- a rock having been charted, which resembles • ship. ENTOMBED ELEVEN DAYS. A miner named Hicks, who was entombed eleven days at . Bakersfiekl, California, haa beon rescued. He was fed several days by means of a tube through the debris. SHIP BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS. The boiler of a steamer named the Soovel exploded at Vkrksburg, on the Mississippi, blowing uhey-essei to fragments. Fifteen negroes were killed and tw.elve injured. BRITISH AMBASSADOR AT WASHINGTON. (Received Deoember 21st, 10.27 p.m.) LONDON, December 21. The Right Hon. James Bryce, Secretary for Ireland, has been appointed British Ambassador at Washington. The Americans are pleased at the appointment. PERSISTENT SUFFRAGISTS. LONDON, Deoember 21. A number of suffragists attempted to enter the Parliament Building by various stratagemfe, including the use of a police whistle, which secured the withdrawal elsewhere of thirty police. One woman entered, the lobby and two tbe Central Hall before they expelled. Five arrests were made. THE Sl-PARATION LAW IN FRANCE. PARIS, December 21. English, Scottish and American students at Saint Sulpice, in Fiance, have protested against their expulsion from the seminary, and are appealing for a longer period of grace. ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. ROME, Deoember 21. A portion of the Vesuvius crater fell in, oa using an <eruption of ashea, cinders and eand. Panics occurred at Naples, women invoking the Madonna and tho saints to avert an eruption at Christmas. The rain of ashes has now ceased.