DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 22 August 1908, Page 10

DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

; > WEEKLY SUMMARY BY MAIL. The following weekly summary of tho world's nows is taken from the "Daily Mail" Overseas Edition of July 11: — • JULY 3. The Shah's firman withdrawing martial law '■ has reassured tho public at Teheran, but the situation in Tabriz, tho capital of tho rebellious province of Azerbaijan, is- still dangerous. . Sowars . liavo pillagod tho houses at Tabriz. Twolve thousand peoplo are reported killed on both sides, rolitical prisonors captured by tho Shah's emissaries have been subjected to terriblo tor- ". tures. 'l'he deputy Malik, for o.vample, whd was ai'restod in Tehorin, was haqlccd slowly to pieces with blunt k'uives, and his flesh thrown to the dogs, bit by bit. A number of revolutionary:.leaders havo . QS?.; caped across tho Persian frontier in disguise. Persian fugitives still find asylum in; the British; Legation. On the urgent demand of the British Charge d Affaires, Mr..; Marling, .tho Cossack . sentries wore withdrawn. • Subsequently,: howpyor, ten Cossafeks roturned and tqolc up posts along-side-'the. '.'watorgate" of ,the Ibuilding in. order to arrest any Persians leaving Legatiori.;' Hfr. Marling inado, a protest' and. '-demanded thftt ■ tho governor of..the city and a Minister of Court should appear in full • uniform and apologise. The British Legation's demand for official apologies on account of tho Shah's-troops having beset tho Legation whore Persians had sought refuge has;jiot;.yet been. cpmpUed with. Negotiations ai;e in progress, and satisfaction from the.Shah is only a question of time. " ■' •' '*. '*<-• . '. v.

'A revolution is in'progress ' in Honduras, Control America. Tho revolutionists. have 'captured'tho ''town of 'Gracias, -.neat tjio; Salvadorean border. It'is'stated that tho ; revolutionists i are planning/an allie'd^ Government, in which Guatemala aucT Shivador shall.partake,, and when ,the. Goyehi,-,- , ment ib"-ostablished tho-plan is to-attach'

Nicaragua. " • " ■ The Swedish Fereign Office is concerned" as to the fate of Dr. Sven Hedin, the Asiatic explorer, who has been travelling in Tibet. The Swedish Government has communicated with the Indian Government, and has requested that' inquiries l may be made. The schooner. Shamrock .has won the 325-mile ' ocean rncq to Cape May and back for the Lipton. tjropiiy, valued at f -£200.. ' • Great Britain -is>no. longer considered- ajmis-; ■ sionary land.by'the .Vatican', according to various reforms in organisation;- proinulgatotf':by ;tho' Pope', states a Rome' telegram. . i■. . Herr Rudolf Martin, author of novels dealing- with tho '.'Corning War in tho Aii\ informs our 'Berlin- correspondent that lio is organising' tho first; '-'German Aerial Navy. League" for tho'purpose of working a regular.: "line" of . passcngor,: airships; between Berlin, .London, Paris, Vionna, St. Petersburg) .Copenhagen, and Stockholm.The death has ocourred of - M. Jonas Lie, the famous Norwegian poet, at Chriatiama. ■■xjy'.j'- -'-f -JTJLY'4; ■ The King of Wurtemborg accompanied Count " Zeppelin"on his airship, which sailed round V Latte' Consthn'c'e. The Queen then joined -'the party, and tho trip was repeated. ; .The importation of diamonds into the United Statos last year, according to offi?;cial figures just issued, - was lower by £5,000,000 than in the previous year. Tliot fill is attributed to tho financial orisis. . Statistics' show. that the annual average of .- executions in Russia from 18-12 to 1904 wiis . fifteen. From, August, 1906, to February, . 1907, there were 950 executions, while tlio. J total for tho.whole of 1906 was 1042. In 1907/1692 death sentencos were passed, of r' which number 748 were carriod out. The 'v figures for : the ciirrent year are on'a sinii-; ,' lar Bcale.

,The .revolution in Asuncion, the capital of 1 } Piraquay, has been - successful. After .a '' three days' revolt, led by tho army, tho • Paraguayan revolutionists are victorious, ; at a cost, it is calculated, of 150 dead and ' wounded. The provisional Government of . r - revolution has been consolidated with the ''following - Ministers:—President, Senor : Gonzalez Nasero; Foreign,- Dr.'. Eusobio .Ayala;_ War,. Major Albeno' Jara; Finance, 1 f Dr. Huertas; Interior! Serior Manuel Gon-. V dra: Justico, Senor Manuel Franco ; Chief jj'o'f Police,, Sonor Adolfo Riguelmo. The; ft ex-Presideiit','General Ferreyra,"is still in' ?. the Government palace, : but '' the other' V Ministers of .the .defeated party and the ■'-chief'of ,police "are refugees 'iu tho Argentine Legation. Complete order now reigns . throughout_Paraguay. The buildings, of the United States and Italian Legations at Asuncion are reported "to h&vo suffered a.good deal during the bombardment of the town. : •" ■'

The Upper House of tho Dutch Parliament has" passed a law prohibiting motor-oars . from being driven faster than eight miles an hour in all inhabited centres.

!A telegram from .Delmonte, California, announces tho death from' heart disease of Rear-Admiral Thomas, who commanded tho American battleship fleofc when Admiral Evans was ill.

'A Bill has been laid on tho table of the French Chamber of Deputies for thd transfer to ,tho city by tho State, within maximum period of ten years, of the fortifications of Paris, in order to permit of the construction of a circular boulevard 215 ft. broad, and of the laying out'of at least four parks of from 15 to 20' hectares each, and a-number, of squares and gardens.

Signor Massimini,. Italian Minister : of Financo during the first .liino ,-mouths of tho existence "of tho present Giolitti Cabinet, died in JRoree.,. ; ,

'A- conservative estimate .'places the. number of deaths caused by tho heat in tho Eastern States of U.S.A;., during the past fort- • night at over a' hundred, and the number of' cases of prostration at considerably more than a thousand!

,JUIiY 6. _ ; ■ ; 'A tremendous, conflagration, has occurred on tho Boryslay'oil field. :The fire was started by lightning, -and six oil wells, with -tho dependent, plant, And about-1600 tahk's of oil, woreiquifckly.'ablaze.*"The dams of tho e.arth resorvoir burst and tho -raf oil poured into tho Tysmienica River, .'to tho great danger of. the neighbouring villages; llio wholo area presented the appearance of a sea of firei Owing to the poisonous fumes and intense heat it was. impossible to go near tho blazing tanks,. 'The flames leapt to- a height 1 of from fivo to six hundred, feet. The burning oil poured into the village of Tustanovico, compelling the inhabitants to flee for-safety. There has been no loss of lifo. - The firo extended over six milos. Four, hundred buildings, including the court house, tho prison, and ,tho arsenal, > have been destroyed by firo at Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The. arsenal contained stores of powder and ammunition, which exploded with loud, reports as the building burned. Prince Usoupoff, a lad of twenty-two, whoso father is the richest man in Russia, has been shot dead in a duel by Count Mantciphel. Tho : duel arose over a family' quarrel. • ■' ; 'A telegram'from Monastir announces that General' Chomzi Pacha has been assassinated by' a • Turkish officer. Tho murdered general had ~arrived in the town' from Uskub only -an hour or two previously in command of * body of troops, and* l was in the post Office sending off a telegram when he was stricken down. Tho crime is generally believed to be the outcome of the Young Turkish movement, which is spreading rapidly-in Monastir. . Widespread distress has been caused in tho

province of Kivangtune (China) by floods. Thousands' of people nave been drowned; A , vast area in ths villey of the Canton River has been inundated, and brigandage is rampant. The Hong-Kong Government has voted £3000 towards the relief fund. The full casualty list in America on the Fourth of July was 71 killed and 2624 injured. Mr. Maxim's Union Jack at Lake Hopatcong, New. Jersey, was torn down.

Tho final preparations are boing made, undor tho . direction of Admiral Princo Henry 'of Prussia, for tho sailing of tho German High Sea-Fleet from Kiel upon tho longest cruise in tho history of tho Imperial Navy.' Tho fleet, consisting of seventeen battleships, four armoured cruisors, and six protected cruisers, with two flotillas of destroyors, will proceed through tho Atlantic to tho Azores and Canary Islands. Tho distance' from Kiel to .tho Azores is about 1900 milos.

Tho presenco of an unusual number of white buttprfiies caused h collision between two tramway qa'rs at Florence. The rails were mado slippery by hundreds of thousands of the butterflies falling on tho ' meta v ls and being -crushed by tho cars. The cars that' collided had tho windows ; broken, many of tho passengers wero bruised, and tho drivers wero injured, .'i'ho work of clearing tho lino was rcn- , dercd difficult owing to tho appcaranco of . fresh "clouds of ~ buttorflies. The prcsenco of the"6whrifls'T>f bnttorflios is attributed to tho great heat and to the amount of !7 olectricity -TnUho atmosphere Count Nicholas. Pavlovitch '.Ignntieff, tho ! Russian . politician and diplomatist, has died in St." Petersburg.

'The cost of repairs to Cologne Cathedral is ! to bo met by a Prussian Government lottery.,;.

A- member-;-: of tho -Russian . Duma has received;, a petition for mercy from tho • mothers '-'and of. sixty-fivo pupils of the . A/rricijltifral School! at I'skoff, who wero arrested February, and are still . detained jn prison without triq.l. ■ Among their , number-- are somo boys of fifteeen. One of tho studfcnts has died sinco tho arrest was m4.de, : and another is dying of inflammation ;of tho lungs. A monument iti' honour ,of Emilia Castelar, tho Republican leader, has been unveiled at Madrid in the walk of the Castellana. •Two, men, named- .Verfaille and Carlier have been found guilty at Brussels of stealing .masterpiece, "The Raising of tlie Cross," from a church at Courtrai. Verfaille" was sentenced to five years' imto thirty months. --Van Pyck's.priceless painting, "The Rais-'-irig of the Cross," was stolon from tho Chur'dlkt of Notre Daino at Courtrai last Decemfilr.

..,.,'■ TOLY 8. - ' Tho French motor "Derby" at Dieppe, the Grand; Prix- for heavy cars, was marred , .by. an accident.which causo'd the loss of two iives.'r-A'paiih'a'fd and Levassor car, driven —by-Gissacy assisted by a mechanician named .... Sch'aiibe,-- ovei'turnod. while running, at a. terrific speed- and crushed both occrijiants to..death.', Cis3ac had nearly completed the' ninth round. . . After taking a dangerous turn at Londinio'res ho rusned at a tremendous speed' of between ninety-eight and •' ninety-nine "milos an hour along tho "straight"'from Sept Moules to Eu. Slid-, f .denly a -tyro- hurst. Tho'car skidded vio.,.„]ently,..at,.an angle,of 45 degrees across tho, ~/rriad, ...dasjiirig. with ' tremendous - force '' against two stout young trees." So fright-' "fiil was the'impact that both trees wore. ■ 'snapped clean in two at a height of 2ft, ■ from,tho ground. Diving into a field tho . car made two' complete somersaults and stopped bottom upwards. -Tho race, ton rounds of-the course, or about 477 miles, ■ resulted:— - ;'■ '■ Time. " '' '' li, m. s. 1 Lautenschlager, r' Mercedes (German). 6 55 .43 2 Hemery, Benz (German) 7 4 24 3 Hanriot, Benz (German) ... 7 5 13 Instead of Greenwich time, now used in Holland, the Dutch Second Chamber has just ' passed tho Bill to uso Amsterdam timo, 19J minutes ahead of Greenwich, The-city of Vionna has purchased the house in which Franz Schubert was born, and in-.-tends to proscrvo it in its present condi--tion.as long jvs,>possiblo. Tho price paid was £4400. " The Czar has' sanctioned the new Russian internal loan of £20,000,000. ■ Outcry is raised by the textile manufacturers ' of Now York and New England generally - against Mr. Taft, as Secretary for War, having ordered 1,500,000 yards of British- . madolthaki for tho Army and constabulary ,in tho Philippines, against the principles of Protection; .and the President,- fearing the effect on . Mr. Taft's. campaign prospects, has promised immcdiato inquiry with a view to preventing further orders, going to Britain. A mqst destructive fire has occurred at the ' Cunard 'Company's'' pier at Boston, TJ.S.A.. The damage is estimated at £400,000! The conflagration spread to tho pier belonging ' to the Leyland Lino,' and a six-masted ' - schooner of 'the Palma Line was burned. ' Several blocks of warehouses and business ' premise's in East Boston calight fire. ! Threo • lighters," a South American barquentine, a dozen, goods trucks, and a grain elevator were destroyed. ■ Two persons lost their lives.

Dr. Joao Baranlio, a Brazilian diplomat, has died in Paris from injuries received in a motor-cab, .which dashed down Montmartro Hill, and fell 30ft. into wasto ground. With him were his wife, a nurse, their baby, and the ohauffeur. Tho nurse died ..subsequently,.-and tho othors, except tho . sevon-months-old baby, aro seriously in- v ~ jurod. Tho American- Atlantic Fleet, sixteen battleships strong, have sailed from San - ■ Francisco 'on its opoch-making voyage across the Pacific westwards to New York and Hampton Roads, which will complcto its circumnavigation of tho world. Simul- • tancously comes news from our Tokio ■ correspondent that' the ' Japaneso Governanont is planning a remarkable welcome . for the fleet"'when it visits Japanese shores ' a few' weeks ;heifco. A very poworful Japanese fleet""wiir bo assembled at Yokohama; to doAdmiral Sperry honour, and also, it may bo,' to show what .tho strength of the'' Japanese Navy really is. Some 'twenty-four armoured Japaneso ships, un- ' der Vice-Admiral' Ijuin, will probably bo in lino to' receive the American, visitors, with smaller craft in large number in addition. 'The.American.fleet will be drawn ■Mtp'ill.,lino .'outside tho breakwater.. Ad■•'niiral Ijuiii's. fleet will be marshalled ■abrbast- of it and at either end of the American line. Acting..on directions by President' Castro, " as tho; result, of the withdrawal of tho .United'-States Chargo d'Affaires 'at Cara,"ca3, the, Yonezudlan Charge d'Affaires has presented,his letters of recall. The effect . is .to complete tho mpture between Vone- . 'zh'elal and .the United States. Mr. Roosevelt lias signed a contract with tho Scribne'r Company of Now. York, who . .will publish his African hunting adven- .- tures, giving him a largo royalty. It is undorstood that ho entered into this agreement after-refusing an offer of a dollar (4s. 2d.) a word. Owing to the . sudden breaking of an iron girder supporting tho scaffolding, eightyfour workmen engaged in building a new ; bridge over the Rhino at Cologne were • plunged into tho river. Sixteen were drowned or killed by falling iron and masonry, and serious injury was caused to many others. Flight _ workmen had just mounted tho scaffolding this morning for final touchos on the newly jercctcd officers' wing of tho Chevalier Guards' barracks at St. Petersburg', .when 'tho .-roof cracked, the .walls swayed, and in a rearing cloud of debris tho men wore hurled to tho courtyard boloiv.' Air tho workmen wero killed. Tho Now Brunswick liner Areola, bound from Manchester, struck the rocks at tho entrance to tho Gulf of St. Lawrence. The crew roached.tho shore in their boats. The liner, of 2509 tons, will probably be a total , loss. The total advancos made to the Portuguese Royal Household by various Ministers of ' Financo.-are:Said. to amount-to £170,000, exclusive of considerable sums given to Queen Maria I'ia. Tho Kaiser has issued a decree placing naval • engineer officers on an equality with other officers in tho Gorman Navy. As a sign of their rank the engineer ofßcors will henceforth wear similar swords to those worn by the officers of other branches of the service