CABLEGRAMS

Evening Star, Issue 14307, 4 March 1910, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS

(From Februarv 14 to 18; published ill Iho Australian Press by the Independent Press Cable Association of Australia.) A Berlin message states that a man attempted to force his way into the Boy a Palace, and was arrested. It is presumeil that he intended to attack the Kaiser N ilhelm 11. ~ , , i At New York Mis Hendruk has been awarded .612,000 damages for the alienation of her husbands niTcvtioi*. ncamst Laura Biggar. a well-km.wn artie*;. A publication issued by the \ aticiin gives the lirst reliable .statistics in connection with the Messina eaithquake. It is calculated (hat the dc.nl at Medina numbered SO.OOC 1 , of whom 20.CC0 aie slid uuburied. T>« death -toll -A Calabru was 16,500. Tin) relief fund now amounts to £300,000. Inchan Angam. who acs'.-siuated Prince Ito at Harbin .-ome time ago. and who har. been convicted and sentenced to ceath. was a raembci of the ho.c.wi Liberal partv, and hu. assistants in ivnea secretly honored him a.- a maityr. Special precautions have Wen oulcicd to pievent any demonstration at Seoul o:i the occasion of his execution. After having shot to death his wife and mother-in-law, a negio named William Withers successfully defended for three hoars his house against about fifty members of tho Toronto police force, who were armed with revolvers. The determined negro used seve;al shotguns, after which ho" ended the siek-e by' pulling a bullet into his awn head. It i.s thought that altogether he. fired about eighty louuds, while it is estimated thtrt the ammunition used bv the police was about 150 louuds. A Chinese Christian clergyman of Honolulu is awaiting the opinion of the Comity Attorney of the Tcnitoiy with respect to a request made by him for the enfon ement of the anti-opium laws. He contends that there is no real etlorl being made to stop tho sale of the drug, and he urged the authorities to take immediate action in

tho matter. ; Information received in New \ork by tho American Jewish Committee shows that tho relentless persecution of the Jews at Odessa, at tho instigation of M. Toluiutcheif, is unabated. Advices from Constantinople state that the troops who occupied Athens .v.i Febluarv 16 were moved thither in expectation ot an attack on the Greek N'avy. The Army League discussed the expediency of disarming and then separating the warships. The new British Army aivjhip lias been perfected. When tho new military dirigible was launched at Faruham it tlew fur an hour over Laffan's Plain. It is iudiihaped, and is 120tt long, with two propellers on each side. Count Doperigny, a French archaeologist, has arrived at "British Honduras, Central America. He reports the discovery of an ancient buried city on the frontier of Iritish Honduras. It is declared that the rains indicate that the inhabitants of the city had attained a high degree of civilisation, even approaching that of the ancient Uomane. It is reported that money in being systematically collected by the Hindus on the Pacific coast of America in support of a propaganda of sedition and the smuggling of arms into India. In consequence of the scarcity of beef,' the hog market at Chicago has re.n lied the highest point for fifty ycais. Prices have jumped up to 59s 2d per ewt. The steamer Yukatau, bound from Slagwav to Seattle, struck an iceberg in ley Strait. The vessel tank, but the ~L-.-enty passengers i.an.iged to reach the snore in

tmall boiits. Sir K. Shackelton will lecture m the United States during March, and then explore Northern Alaska. The United State* Congress has authorised the taking of a referendum at Hawaii on the question of Prohibition. Four negro patents in a smallpox detention camp at Oklahoma (Tinted States) were frozen to death on February 17. Nino utheri; are in a critical -state. Tile sloop Jeanonie Dare. (oiii;mii'ig a, cargo of petroleum, blew up while 1.-rthr-d at one of the wharves at Pro! o:i February 18. The captain of the vessel and "tie of the sailors were fatally burned, while tin other members of the crew were terribly injured. The accident is attiihutrd to a sailor carrying a lighted candle into the hold where the petroleum was stored. It iti being urged in French naval circles that Brest should bo made the real naval base, of the Atlantic. since_ the .Mediterranean is no longer a defensive centre. Dr Jameson denounces the efforts of the i Cape Premier (.Mr Merrimaii) to resuscitate ' lacialiem. He says: "We want the he.-t man's government, independent of paity or t»ce. Pending a repudiation oi Mr Merriman's policy by General Botha or other responsible leaders, the members of the Progressive party miibt buckle on their armor." In the Dominion House of Commons- on February 16, Mr Goodeve quoted authorities to show that experts laid it down that for a navy to be -effective it ihould be in a position to strike rapidly and together, and to destroy an enemy's Beet. The Bill under discussion was prepared with the obvious object of being all ihings to all men tinder the cover of darkless. Dr Chisholm upbraided the Government for taking little, interest in aerial navigation. He declared that Canadian airships would be nio'ro useful than Dreadnoughts, but he favored an outlay of 6,000.000d0l for the provision of Dreadnoughts for Great Britain. Loyalty to His Majesty the King and also the conception of Imperial duty were the features of a speech delivered* by Colonel MT.ean. who painted a graphic description of German designs as a naval Power, and declared tint these who counted on the friendship of Germany did not know that nation. In the case of Madame Paratt, wife of a Parisian chemist, who was found at her 'Husband's residence heavily chained between '.he bed and the wall, it" was proved that the woman's body was horribly scarred. In November last, while in her chains, she gave biith to her fifth child. The advance guard of ex-President Roosjvelt's shooting party arrived at Gondoroko Gondait on February 17. Mis Roosevelt and her daughter have sailed from New York for Khartoum to meet the ex-Presi-dent.

The 'Asahi.' which is one of the leading lournals of Japan, declares that Jaruu must ;ake decisive steps to compel the naturalisation of the Mikado's subjects in the United States. Such attacks on Japanese as weie contained in the Bill introduced by Mr Hayes into the United States House of Representatives are becoming wearisome, and it is time that Japan took action. The Japanese Foreign Office, like the 'Asahi,' declares that the Bill is premature. They iltio declare that the country does not favor Ihe emigration of the Mikado's subjects, who are required by Japan. Advices from Tokio state that interest was arousid in official circles on February 17 by a report that several thousand Japanese rifles had been landed on the Tayabas coast. It is feared by some that Japan is planning to instul an armed force in the Philippines It is al-o said that the cruiser Chattanooga has been despatched to Lemon Bay to search the ship which brought the rifles. On the other hand, it is believed by many that the rifles were deliberately brought "in by Japanese traders to encourage the natives to rebel against the Americans.