25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 68, 13 December 1933, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Webb-Arnst Sculling Race (From “The Dominion,” December 13, 1908.) No trap of any kind can be Obtained at Wanganui for Tuesday next under £5 a day. The excitement in connection with the sculling race between Webb and Arnst is so great that even at the price named all the available vehicles are being engaged by picnic parties, who make a day of it by camping on the hills’above the river at the finishing point. Wanganui is sure that it will retain the championship, and every picnic party that is being arranged is confident that it will have nothing to do but shout on ‘Tuesday "Hurrah for Webb.” ■ ' • • • i Austria’s reply to Russia proposes that the signatories of the Treaty of Berlin (Germany, Russia, Turkey, Britain, Austria, France, and Italy) should discuss the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in writing, and submit the result to the conference of the Powers, which will then merely register the result arrived at. The St. Petersburg correspondent of “The Times” says that Austria, by her latest proposal, seeks to save her face, hoping for a preliminary agreement among the Powers to recognise* the annexation. It is suggested in some circles that the creation of an autonomous state of Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austrian sovereignty will afford a satisfactory solution of the imbroglio. •• . • Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor and aerial investigator—who recently declared that the aeroplane would cause a revolution in warfare equal to that effected by gunpowder, and that it would enable towns to be bombarded from greater distances —has made a further startling statement. .He declares that Germany, at an outlay 'of seven and a half millions, could build aeroplanes capable of landing a hundred thousand men in .England in a single night. Reuter states that Turkey has expressed a wish to engage the services of a British admiral to reorganise her navy. Mr. Asquith, Prime Minister, has assented.