LATE CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 54, 6 March 1911, Page 8

LATE CABLE NEWS.

* . • By Teleerapb.— Pre»« Association.— Copyright*, i (Received March 6, 2.30 p.m.) KING TO ENTERTAIN CHILDREN. , LONDON, sth Marcn. King George will entertain 100,000 London children at the Crystal Palace on 30th June next. A strong committee has been formed to carry out the ar-rangement-3. AUDIENCED BY' THE- POPE. ! i ROME, sth March. ! The Pope gave a private audience to Sir John Downer (ex-Premier of South Australia) and Lady Downer, of Adelaide. SERIOUS BALLOON ACCIDENT. ROME, sth March. The balloon Albatross fell from a height of 1900 metres at Turin. Luckily it landed on some trees. Six of the | aeronauts were seriously injured — one ! desperately. TORTURE. ST. PETERSBURG, sth March. A farmer and his wife were murdered at Novo-Mikha-ilovskoye, Northern Caucasia. The villagers tortured' the murderer by placing red-hot stones against his feet until he confessed, implicating two others, who were similarly tortured, though they protested their innocence. 1 EMANCIPATION OF 1 THE SERFS. ST. PETERSBURG, sth March. The jubilee of the emancipation of the Russian serfs was celebrated throughout Russia. The "Te Deum " was sung in the churches, there were military re- i views and lectures, free meals were given | to the poor, and memorials to Alexander 11. unveiled. FAMINE IN CHINA. SHANGHAI, sth March. The famine m the Anhui and Kiang-su i districts 16 becoming more severe than that of 1906. There has been a large J exodus of population southwards. j