BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 319, 17 July 1907, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(BY BLBOTBIO TBLMBAPH— -09P-_UaHX.> ____. pbbss -dqaciAraoit.] RUSSIAN BANK ROBBERY. St. Petersburg, uly 15. Eighteen armed robbers captured and looted the steamer Sophia in the Black Sea, and escaped in boats with 50,000 roubles belonging to the Russian Bank. THE RAND STRIKE. Capetown, July 16. The Rand strike is collapsing as the mine managers are willing to absorb the strikers, with the exception of the ringleaders. THE JAPANESE SPIES. New York, July 15. The two Japanese spies arrested in California have been released. NEWFOUNDLAND. London, July 15. In order to settle the Newfoundland fisheries dispute and other pending questions, Router understands that Canada, Newfoundland and Britain are willing to refer 'the Anglo-Ame-rican treaty of 1818 to arbitration at the Hague Convention. THE NAVY. Received July 17, 7.52 a.m. London, Juuly 16. Tho Admiralty has decided to station three cruisers permanently in West Indian waters.