CABLEGRAMS.
■ ♦ [rim PBKBS ASSOCIATION—COI'TMOKT.] (Received May 23, 1.13 a.m.) AUXILIARY CRUISERS. London, May 22. Fourteen of the largest steamers of the Hessajyeries Maritime and Transatlantique Companies are about to be prepared for immediate equipment as auxiliary cruisers. A commission is now sitting to decide as to the strength of their armament. M.P. IMPRISONED. Mr Thomas Condon, M.P. for Tipperary, has been sentenced to ono month's imprisonment on tho oharge of having incited the Irish tenants to conspiracy. THE DAMAGE BY THE FLOODS. New Yokk, May 21. It is estimated that quite 250,000 acres of land were flooded in consequence of the embankments of the Mississippi river bursting, and the damage is put down at 4,000,000 dollars. GERMANY. Beijun, May 21. In compliance with the suggestion of the German official press the Austrian Government are sending largo reinforcements to positions on the Galician frontier. Tho Emperor and Empress drove through the city to-day and received a tremendous ovation. After the marringo of Prince Henry tho court will remove to Potsdam. GALICIAN FRONTIER. Viknna, May 22. ThreoGermanGenerals have hiidaudiencea with the Emperor Francis Joseph and subsequently madp. an inspection of tho military posts on the Galician frontier.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5227, 23 May 1888, Page 4
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