DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 294, 5 September 1908, Page 10

DIARY OF THE WORLD'S NEWS.

WEEKLY SUMMARY BY MAIL. Tiio following weekly summary of the world's news is taken from tho " Daily Mail" Overseas Edition of July 25: — JULY 17. Tlio following table will show how numerous and how serious the mutinies and murders in tho Turkish Army havo been in the last threo weeks:— July 3.—Eighty Turkish officers and officials mutiny and take to flight, proclaiming their adheronco to tho " Young Turk " party. July s.—Two battalions ordered to pursuo them and deal with the movement decline .to obey. July B.—Shcmsi Pasha, preparing to attack tho mutineers, shot dead. July 10— General insurrection in TJslcub district; Albanians seizo railway to Mitrovitza. July 18.—Osman Pasha and Recliid Effendi murdered and 7000 troops at Monastir mutiny. July 19.—"Young Turks" reported to havo assumed control in Monastir district'and Third Army Corps to bo in revolt, with a portion of "tho Second Corps. Carrison 'of Tikvesh, near Salonica, declares for tho " Youne Turks." July 21.—Murder of three Turkish officers —a colonel at Salonica and a colonel and a pasha at tho town of Seres, which is not far distant from Salonica. The assassination of these officers was probably duo to tho fact that they aro suspected of being tho Sultan's spies. The wholesalo mutiny of Turkish troops in Macedonia has been followed by the. discovery of a plot in Constantinople by the dismissal of the Grand Vizier, and by the arrest of a largo number of officers. Some time ago tho Gorman steamer Sesostris went ashoro near Ocos, on the coast of Guatemala. AH efforts to float her have failed, and the vessel has been abandoned. Neither hull nor engines have been damaged, and tho ship's dynamo is now used to light the town of Ocos by means of electric cables stretched from the vessol.

Tho Princesso dc Sagan noe Mine. Anna Gould, has put up for salo tho famous chateau of Marais, in tho Seine-et-Oiso department of France, which slio bought when tho wife of Comto Boui do C»stellaiKs. Sho asks 2,500,000fr. (£100,000) as tho'lowest pi-ice for the chateau. It is stated that tho Princesso also intends to sell her famous mansion in tho Avenuo du Bois do Boulogne. With tho proceeds of tho sab; of these two houses it is understood that she iutends to 'go to Germany and endeavour to reconstitute the estate of her husband, tho Prince de Sagan. Both will then settle in Germany, and become naturalised .Germans. JULY 18.

King Peter of. Servia, after two months' guest, has at last found a politician who is willing to accept tho Premiership in succession to M. Paschics, who resigned in May. Tho King's personal appeals have been successful, and ii. Velimirovics, . lately Servian Minister in Rome, has formed a Cabinet. Commander Peary sailed from Sydney, CapoBreton Island, for tho Arctic. His stenuier, tho Roosevelt, is thoroughly fitted out. The explorer expresses his determination to spend three years, if neoessary, in attempts to roach the Pole, whjch ho thinks is moro within tho region of possibility now than before. According _to returns published regarding the foreign trado of Germany, tho imports during the first six months of tho present year amounted in value to £215,150,000, against £221,200,000 in the corresponding _period of 1907, and the exports to ' £165,150,000 as compared with ' £167,250,000 in tho first six months of the preceding year. The imports thus decreased by £6,050,000 and tho exports by £2,100,000. . : "A Beresford-Scott incident," as tho papers describo it, has occurred in the French iNavy during manoeuvres. The plan of campaign, drawn up by Admiral Germinet beforehand, ordered the second squadron, under Admiral Lo Pord, to lie off tho coast of Corsica, while tho'first squadron, under Admiral Germinet, prepared to attack it. .It was intended that the first should havo an easy victory, a point-which, was made clear to Admiral Lo Pord. The latter, however, hearing of Admiral Germinot's approach, decided to disregard orders and avoid defeat. Ho weighed anchor suddenly and put to sea. Tho first squadron coming up to deliver tho attack as prearranged, found tho prey gone and was baffled. It is stated that the relations of tho admirals are now friendly, but the critics condemn Admiral ' Germinot's action, and declare that tho new situation caused by Admiral de Pord's' independence should have beon worked out to its legitimate conclusion.

JULY 20. An attempt was mado to assassinate tho vonorablo Archduke Regnier Rainer, tho Emperor. of Austria's cousin, while ho was driving near Gmueud. A man holding a drawn knife dashed at the carriage and tried to enter. He was seized just in timo by tho Archduke's sorvant, who wrested the knifo from the man's hand and threw him' -into a ditch, where he held him down till assistance came and the man was secured. Tho effect of tho financial panic and tho subsequent retrenchment in tho pleasures of American millionaires is soon in tho announcement that' tho Herreshoff yachtbuilding yard at - Bristol, Rhodo Island, will olose indefinitely for lack of orders. Tho famous American racersj tho Defender, Columbia, and others, wore constructed in this yard, which in busy seasons employs 1000 men. Few millionaires aro building or refurnishing yachts at prosent. It is ostimated that a third of tho beautiful craft which swarmed at overy watering-place last year aTO out of commission this summer. The change of tho public fooling in Norway tending towards the creation of a Democracy has placed tho Eing and Queen of . Norway in a delicate situation, states "Lo Journal" (Paris). Tho Norwegian people acceptod tho Monarchical reginio out of respect to tradition, and tho more readily becauso it was a necessary condition. to tho realisation of their independence. The question now asked is how far King Haaken realises this. The Democratic element reproaches liis Majesty with not keeping in closer touch with his people. A recent • characteristic incident is quoted. _ Tho Constitutional party in tho Storthing proposod an. amendment to tho Constitution - declaring that, in tho ovent of the oxtinction of tho .dynasty, it would bo well to consider whether or not tho monarchic regimo should bo main, taiued.

In conformity with an arrangement concluded between tho Russian and Bulgarian Governments, tho work has beou begun of laying a cablo between Varna and Sevastopol; Tho Bulgarian Government has oponed iiegotiations for tho installation at Varna of wireless telegraphy on tho Marconi system. Signor Nasi, tho Italian ex-Minister, who l'ocontly underwent a term of imprisonment, has boon re-elected deputy for Trapani by a popular .voto, obtaining nearly 3000 votes against 150 cast for his oi>pononfc, JULY 21. Two shipments of gold of tho valuo of £60,000 have passed through Uganda from King Leopold s Kilo mines in tho Congo State. _An enormously rich gold field oxists in tho Congo, and it is surmised that over. 100 miles of the Ituri Province will yield gold oro, both alluvial and quart/,. Tho present output is limited pending tho arrival of macllinory. For- ' eigners are rigorously prevented from ontonug tills territory, which lien in tho private domain of tho King.

Tile death is announced at Athens of M. Bikelas, the author of extensive literary works, notablo the translation of Shakespeare's works into modern Greek. M. Bikelas was one of the originators of tho rovival of the Olympio Gaines. A dispatch from Tetuan reports that Mr. Clark Kennedy, who was caught by Moorish brigands, has been released. Tho United States Government has voted £3,000,000 for tho Department of Agriculture in order to carry on tho work of food inspection during the ensuing year. The war on impure food trill be rigorously proceeded with. Tho wires and daughters of three millionaires well known in Now York, aided by tho mechanician of their motor-car, manned a life-saving rockot apparatus on tho Long Island coast and rescued tho captain and crew of 24 men of the Americun steamor Chippewa by means of the breeches-buoy. Tho steamor \raa on tho rocks, and the coastguards in tho neigh- . bourhood were off duty.. Searchers *cro i>ont to get expert help, and met the party of Mr. William Post ,a millionaire banker, who, with his wife, Mr. David van. Nosfcrands, and three women guests, was returning from. a motor-car tour .to ±i! s T llla ' le motorists drove swiftly to the Jieach, where the chauffeur and. Mrs. lost, .who is an expert with tho rifle, aimed and fired in turns. After five attempts the life-lino was shot over tho vessel. It was long after midnight when the last sailor was hauled ashore, the other lady motorists helping in the work. JULY 22. Our New York correspondent learns on tho highest authority that the secret session of tho Naval Board President Roosevelt renowod his plea for a larger navy ■Banging tho table with his fist, he exclaimed, "In the interests of peace the navy must bo kept at the highest state of efficiency. The greatest fault of a nation or an individual is hitting soft. Don't hit if you can help it, but if you must hit, hit hard." Wireless communication between the Eiffel Tower Station, the French headquarters at Casa Blanca, and M. Fallicres squadron in northern waters has been so successful that a new and more powerful apparatus is being installed, by means of which it is confidently expected to bring Paris and New York into direct communication. When New York saw for the first time a "sheath skirt" in the Direetoire stylo in the street tho result was a riot. A mob of ton thousand -persons gathered round the unlucky wearer, a pretty girl of nineteen, tho daughter of a wealthy broker, who innocently bought the garment in Paris to astonish her friends, believing it was the latest phaso of fashion. Impatient to show the treasures her father's wealth hud purchased, she crmo from her seaside home with her mother to dino at a fashionablo New York restaurant, wearing a tighWitting green gad white gown of the-sheath variety. As she stepped from a train, revealing white silken hosiery, a boy pointed and jeered. A crowd thronged round preventing her escape. A solitary policeman .was overpowered, and the crowd grew until it stopped traffic. Polico reinforcements were hurried up from neighbouring stations, a,nd drove the crowd back with fists and clubs. They cleared a way for tho women to a motor-car, in,which they wore hurried out of the city without waiting to dine. Their friends .meanwhile were marvelling as to tho oauso .of their detention. The gown, the cause, of tho riot, was mud-3tained and torn in the scrimmago boyond repair: The latest Parisian 1 novelty in female coquetry is the "planting" of eyelashes and eyebrows.' The'operation is very-delicate and painful. A long hair is singled out of the patient's head. A needle is threaded • with it, and forcod in and out of tho . skin along tho edge of Jihe eyelid, forming ,a scrios .of - loops. -These .loops, are then . cut; at th'e. pair of scissors, and the rows' of' lashes thus obtained are curled upwards.with curlers.

JULY 23. • The German War Office' announces that it is prepared to enter into negotiations with motor-car manufacturers and private owners for subsidising their vehicles. To persons providing themselves with cars answering to certain War Office requirements, and pledging themselves to maintain the cars on a "war footing" for a period of at least five years, tho following subsidies will bo granted:—A purchase subsidy for each car, payable npon its definite transfer to the military administration, of £200; maintenance subsidits for each car for five years, payable at the ond of each year, amounting to about £50; a premium for tho use of domestic German petrol or benzine. The first two clauses refer to cars of 30-Lp. The War Office reserves-tho right to make better teTms for cars of considerably higher horsepower. Any aspirant for subsidies is required to negotiate with tho War Office boforo acquiring a car. ■ A girl of twenty-two years, small institute and with tranquil features, mot. death at dawn to-day in the prison yard of Freiberg, in the presence of 200 spectators, who camo in formal evening dress to witness her last moments. She was Greta Beier, the daughter of tho Saxon burgo- ■ master, who in May, 1907, killed her lover after forging a will bequeathing all his property to her. She was sitting with liirn and playfully bado him open his mouth and shut his eyes in tho manner of." the game. She slipped the muzzle • of a piptol between his teeth and pulled -• tho triggor. She moved without a tremor to the guillotino, and listened quietly to "■ the reading of the death-warrant, making : a sign of resigned acquiescence as the ■ decree and tho signature of the King of Saxony, who had declined to stay tlie execution, were shown to her. Finally— , always toore tranquil than those who watched her—she submitted to the shackles and bent her body. She cried m a firm, clear voice, "Father, I yield my spirit into Thy hands," and as she < uttered the last'syllable the knife fell. '"