CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1672, 16 December 1911, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

. * j BY TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. (pElt PKESB ASSOCIATION.) NEGOTIATIONS FOR RENEWAL. Berlin, December 15. Negotiations are now in progress with Austria for a renewal oi the Triple Alliance. The Italian Government has already signified its willingness to renew the alliance, and it is -enorally thought that the differences between Austria and Italy arising out , of the war conditions in the Adriatic can be adjusted to allow of their again becoming allies. ROYAL CLEMENCY TO POLITICAL PRISONERS. London, December 15. In the House of Commons, the Hon. E. S. Montague staffed that out of 220 political prisoners in India, 183 t were baing released or portion of their sentences remitted, in connection with Die Delhi Durbar. DOCTORS Al\D NATIONAL INSURANCE. A meeting of 2000 doctors ai Manchester resolved to refuse to act under the Insurance Bill, axK( favoured forming a National Medical Union tosafeguard professional interests. (Special to the Sydney San.) MURDERED IN A LIFT. „ New Xoi'fc, December 7. Isadore. Vogel, a diamond merchant, ■■ was murdered in the city to-dar. ■ His lifeless body was discovered in tvie lift of a building in. the business quarter, and it was evident that he l liad been done to death in the most < atrocious fashion. i It was evident that .robbery was i the motive for the crime, for a {Vackft : ' of _ diamonds, worth • about £3000, ' which Vogel was known to, have in his possession at the time, was found missing. The janitor-of the building and the lift attendant ftavr® been arrested and, charged in connection wiiih. the trj"-\ edy. • a ARMY., ITALY HAS A TOTAL OF 130.0010 MEN. ,m - Home, Decoder 7. h I erfjortionlwi PHvoepxf ,iiilff vfHgbq J.He hitli-division of t'nr- Italian army has arrived in Trip jlF v making the Turks 0 L30,00T Opera * n e According to an offi-^ :r ;c report tho Italians to date liave_ 1000 mvi. THE FRENCH PREMIER. DANGEROUS* itAS IN DIPLO--IMACY. Paris, December 7. The Repubßquo t'rancaise confirms the story of a Geneva paper that theFrench Premici - , Caillaux, attempted to bulldoze King 'Alfonso over Morocco. King Alfonso was informed by M. Caillaux that-there must be decisive action on the part of Spain, otherwise the Spanish dynasty might be , threatened. To this communication King Alfonso made the curt retort, ''Spain is not Portugal," and then informed Great Britain and other interested Powers, of the- incident. Following this the Premier, in an interview with tho British Ambassador in Paris, made certain remarks about the Anylo-Fverich entente that were of such a.character that the hitter reported 'them to London, and President Falliercs was finally compelled to intervene. . The Republique Francaiso declares that M. Caillaux is "a dangerous man in diplomacy, J '