Home and Foreign News.
I.OXDOX, August 19. Three large cruisers for Kussia are being built in English shipyards. Miss Kate Marsden, in reply to the charges of dishonesty and other serious offences, published a report of the Bt. Petersburg Leper Fund Committee which completely exonerated her. Alexander Francis, the secretary, however, explains that the report was withdrawn, and a full inquiry convinced the committee of the truth of the charges. Miss Marsden has issued writs against the Leper Fund Committee and Mr Francis, secretary to that body. A corps oi Italian detectives has been sent to London to assist in watching Anarchists, who are hatching plots in Whitechapel and other distiicts of the metropolis. Outrages are feared. August 20. The Bank of New Zealand carries forward £38,000, The report issued by the directors states that certain accounts will probably require provision to be made for them later, but the matter will be left to the new board. The British Government have seized a steel cruiser at Newcastle laden with torpedo tubes, grapplers, and other munitions for Yokohama.
It is reported that Austrian agents within a few days will land 20,000 Mannlicher rifles in China. The constitutional reformers of Japan have issued a manifesto declaring it is the duty of the army to dictate terms of peace under the walls of Pekin. The Japan Mail states that 160,000 men have been mobilised without difficulty. Shanghai, August 19. A number of the Chinese troops in Corea are committing suicide owing to the sickness. August 20. Chinese insulted and fired on a number of English employees at Weihaiwei arsenal because they ceased work upon the outbreak of war. Morocco, August 19. The Kabyle tribe has defeated the Sultan’s troops in an engagement at Mazagan, a seaport 120 miles south west of Cape Spartel. The Sultan’s troops suffered heavy loss. The revolt is extending. Owing to the continued disturbance H M.S. Bramble, stationed at Gibraltar, has been ordered to Tangier. Rio de Janeiro, August 10, Owing to the explosion of a magazine 25 persons were killed. (Continued on page 5.J
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVI, Issue 1323, 28 August 1894, Page 7
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