CAROLINE ISLANDS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18, 23 January 1911, Page 7

CAROLINE ISLANDS.

THE REVOLT AT PONAPE. FORTIFICATIONS ERECTED. WAESHIPS SHELLING REBEL POSITION. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 23, 8.40 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. The German steamer from New Guinea brings news that the rebels at Ponape had erected fortifications. Two German gunboats and two warships from the Eastern Station were on the scene, and had commenced to shell the rebels' position. [It was reported last month that three German warships were hastening to Ponape, where the islanders were in a state of revolt. According to Mr. Langdown, an Island trader, the natives do not take kindly to the Germans, who are not good colonisers. Englishmen and Americans, on the other hand, get on well with the natives. The men in JNIr. Langdown's part of Ponape told him lie would be quite safe if they fought with the natives. The Caroline natives are of Malay origin and are daring fighters. They gave Spain a good deal of trouble (the islands were sold to Germany after the war with the United Slates), on one occasion killing every Spaniard on the island save one man, who swam off to a gunboatThe Spaniards then surrounded the main settlement on Ponape with a high wall. The natives are expert stone-throwers, these missies being almost as deadly as bullets at close range. When they take to the bush they are very formidable foes. Pouape is very mountainous, and the interior is covered with jungle so dense that a way has to be cut through it, and fighting in such country preEenta enormous difficulties.] WIRELESS IN WAR. ■»■ MESSAGES FROM AN AEROPLANE. SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 23, 9 a.m. ) NEW YORK, 22nd January. Lieutenant Beck, of the United. States Signal Service, sent wireless messages from an aeroplane while &couving over a supposed enemy's country to San Francisco. A skilled aviator accompanied Lieut. Beck. The messages wore received without error. The experiment is accepted as a proof of the effectiveness of aeroplanes for scouting in war-time. "JUST IMPEDIMENT." ■ * ' ■»-■ MARRIAGE SERVICE INTERRUPTED. A DISAPPOINTED BRIDEGROOM. By Telegraph —Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 23, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd January. During a marriage service at Sheffield the bride's mother stopped the ceremony, and pr&dueed a certificate, showing that the would-be bridegroom was already married. The cle>rgynian ordered the removal of the wedding-ring from the bride's finger. Outside the church the crowd threw i missiles and rags at this man. RAILWAY COLLISION. A FIREMAN INJURED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 23, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A runaway engine at the central station collided with a string of empty carliages, telescoping two and damaging others. A fireman was injured. "SWORD IN SHEATH." THE KAISER'S ATTITUDE. AN OLD MAXIM EXEMPLIFIED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyiight. (Received January 23, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Speaking at the Gernian national festival, Dr. Kottman said the J£aiser, in spite of prophecy, kept his sword in its sheath, though he always kept it sharp, thus exemplifying the maxim that those who desired peace must be prepared for war. A BLOW TO PRIVILEGE. GERMAN INCOME-TAX. REICHSTAG OPPOSES EXEMPTIONS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrisht. BERLIN, 21st January. The Reichstag has rejected the Conservatives' amendment to the Unearned Increment Tax Bill exempting from taxation the incomes of the reigning princes, including the Kaiser. i -i. ...H...1 vi in I GERMAN CROWN PRINCE. - ■■■ <&■ EASTERN TOUR MODIFIED. SOUTH AMERICA TO BE VISITED. By Telegraph.— Pi ess Association.— Copyright. BERLIN, 21st January. The tour of the CrowH Prince has been modified owing to the existence of plague in. Chisa. Hie Prince will avoid Manchuria, and on his return journey will probably visit South America, Hawaii, and Panama.