MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 14964, 26 August 1912, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright,

While a boat was being lowered from the battleship Superb, at Portland, the falls gave way. throwing 17 men into the sea. Two were drowned, but five officers leaped overboard and saved the remainder.

Lord Chelmsford states that there is no foundation for the cablegram intimating that he has been appointed Governor of Bombay at the expiry of Sir G. S. Clarke's term. Mr Nielsen (ex-Minister of Lands in the M'Gowen Administration) has been appointed Government Commercial Agent on the west coast of America, with headquarters at San Francisco. Mr Bowman. Leader of the Opposition in the Queensland Assembly, has considerably improved. Serious forest tires are raging in the Hyeres district (France). The sanatoria are threatened. One hundred and fifty troops and 200 sailors are fighting the flames.

A deputation of /Egeans is proceeding to Rome to request Italy not to restore the islands she has seized and occupied to Turkey.

A dastardly attempt to wreck a Cana-dian-Pacific train has been discovered in the'Komarno district. The rails were removed from the track, and the spikes and bars are missing. A regular patrolman noticed the attempt in the nick of time to warn an oncoming train.

Speaking on Victoria's immigration policy, Sir W. Taverner paid a tribute to the shipping companies in providing the, considerable accommodation they had for ordinary third class passengers and for, by this means, contributing to the development of the Empire.

At Aberdeen the authorities have refused to release the suffragettes Leigh and Evans, who are being forcibly fed. The, King is now at Balmoral.

Persian trihesmen rushed Bunderabbas, and. raided the premises of several British subjects.

A pica-sure boat, in which were seven postmen, was upset at Onival, on the Somme (France,!. Four of the men .were drowned.

A decree has been issued which permits the resumption of Italian emigration to Argentina.

Count Sormani's residence at Milan was entered by burglars, who stole £4,000 worth of coins and £5,000 worth of jewellery. Three armed and masked men at Cleveland lOhioi. who were seeking to rob an express, held up a freight train in error, and secured only a small sum.

A great battle is reported in Lisbon to have been fought at Timor, a Portuguese possession in the Malay archipelago. The rebels are said to have been defeated, leaving 5.0C0 dead, while 4,000 were captured.