MISCELLANEOUS CABLES
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Troops have been mobilised to combat the forest fires in Russia, A huge expanse of ground at Archangel is a mass of flames, and 100,000 acres of peat bog at Orsha is burning. The "New Freie Pressse.' (Vienna) says that negotiations with, the rebels at Ihirazzo have been resumed, and a 10-days 1 armistice has been arranged. Twenty cases of bubonic plague occurred in Hongkong last week, and there were 16 deaths-' In the House of Commons, the Colonial Secretary (Mr Harcourt), in reply to Mr GinnelL said there was no reason to believe that any natives of. Ocean Island had died of starvation, or been imprisoned for theft, or deprived of their lands, or flogged for non-payment of taxes.
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Evening Star, Issue 15540, 9 July 1914, Page 6
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125MISCELLANEOUS CABLES Evening Star, Issue 15540, 9 July 1914, Page 6
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