HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13546, 6 October 1909, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Prws Aesociation — By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. THE HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATIONS. LONDON, October 4. At th© Hudson-Fulton celebrations the U.S. battleship Minnesota won the Batteaberg Cup against a crew from the English' cruiser Drake. THE COURT-MARTIAL IN RUSSIA. There were 4698 persons court-mar-tialled in Russia during 1906, 4335 in 1907, and 7016 in 1908. SIB ROBERT STOUT. Sir Robert Stout received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Manchester University. ABDUL HAMID'S HAREM. . ST. PETERSBURG, October 4' Eight Moscow theatres have engaged sixteen odalisques from Abdul Hamid's harem to appear.in operetta. [It is reported that one of the first acts of the new Government was to summon to Constantinople relatives of the slave-girls in the late Sultan's harem, in order that tie girls might bo restored to their homes, and they are said to have been glad to exchange the gilded seclusion of the harem for peasant life. Professor Vamberyj a distinguished authority in Turkey, who was for some time intimate with* Abdul Hamid, says the inmates of the harem lived a horrible life of envy and hatred. They were originally, whatever they may have become, -uneducated and barbarous Circassian girls, bought either from slavedealers or from wives of dignitaries.]