CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 236, 10 April 1907, Page 4

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

-^ [BY KLBOTAJO TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT.] [PXB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] KING OF ITALY IN GREECE. Athens, April 8. King Emmanuol was feted at Athens. AMERICAN TREATIES. New York, April 8. Baron Sternburg, German Ambassador, and Mr Elihu Root, have reached a basis of vivendi continuing the application of the German miriii mum tariff to American goods, pending Congress's action on the commercial treaty. It is officially admitted in Washington that an Anglo-American treaty has been drafted for the joint commission relating to all complex ques- | tions connected with water boundaries between Canada and tho United States and the whole subject of fisheries. Messrs Bryce and Root may reach an early vivendi pending the Senate's approval of the commission. THE MOROCCO MURDER. Berlin, April 8. The Sultan of Morocco's admission of responsibility for Dr. Mauchamp's murder is interpreted in Berlin as a pledge that Europeans will herealter be protected and reforms will be unimpeded. CHINESE ANTI-CHRISTIANS Lcr.don, April 8. An Anti-Christian movement is in progress in Taiguan. I BRITISH DEFENCE. Lot don, April 8. Mr Haldano, in a memorandum, explains that the special contingent is designed to meet wastage in war, not the needs of mobilisation. Comparison between the territorial forces and the citizen forces of the Empire cennot be overlooked. The lessons of war have beeff taken to heart by Natal, Canada, and Australia, and unless we now set our house in order we will be soon compelled to follow wneSß it should be our pride to lead. The War Office is about to discharge 1000 from the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich, and 800 from the gun factory and Royal carriages department Some orders lately issued to the arsenal have also been withdrawn. THE KING IN SPAIN. Madrid, April 9. Thero is great popular rejoicing in Cartagena. King Alfonso, Queen Christina, and the infant Ferdinand, aboard the Giralda, met the Victoria and Albert at sea, warships escorting the Royal yacht to port. The Spanish party, the Premier and high ' dignitaries accompanying, boarded the Victoria and Albert. The two Kings and two Queens embraced each other affectionately. The visit was returned aboard the Giralda. Newspapers in Madrid declare that the visit has ratified the understanding, and will strengthen Spain's position with the world. Paris, April 9. A Paris journal remarks that the Kaiser's indefinite postponement of his visit to Madrid shows that he understands that Snain is under Britain's political influence.