BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1962, 4 January 1913, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

/ -to i BY EJ-EOTBIO TELEGBAPH OOPYBIGHT. PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION. THE VICEROY'S CONDITION. , Delhi, January 3. Lord Hardinge was free from fever yesterday, but is suffering from deafness. ~me constant aching of the wounds prevents sound rest. - PIG-HEADED PEASANTS. ' Paris, January 3. One hundred and sixteen 6ardine factories in Brittany have closed down, the fishermen having declined to adopt new methods to secure more plentiful catches. The abandonment of the industry will" affect 50,000 fishermen and women. TROUBLE BREWING IN SPAIN. l The Madrid correspondent of the Evening Standard mentions an omin- j ous report that revolutionaries are planning a great coup by means of a ■ general strike. A revolutionary I "emissary was excelled from France, I after collecting thousands of francs. I Ke had also been in England. THE S.P.G. London, January 3. / Bishop Montgomery has spontane- ( j ously relinquished a considerable por- ' / tion of his stipend in order to take up the secretaryship of the Society for the propagation of the gospel, with a vi.ew to decreasing family expenditure. EMPIRE' TRADE COMMISSION. London, January 3. * The Empire Trade Commission is sailing by the Medina for Australasia. NEWS BY AEROPLANE. HOW A FRENCH FORCE WAS ' SAVED FROM REBELS. SPECIAL TO THE SYDNEY SUN. ' ! London, December 26. ' Lieutenant Dohu, of the air corps of the French army, has demonstrated the value of the aeroplane in warfare in a dramatic fashion. A small French force operating near Mogador, on the Moroccan coast, was completely surrounded by rebels, and was keeping up a hopeless defence in the old castle of Dar El Kadi. The odds were tremendously against the white men, and they were losing heart. They were on the point of giving up when an aeroplane flew over the heads of the rebels, and circled above the Frenchmen. The pilot was Lieutenant Dohu, who had made a daring flight across the desert. He dropped a message, telling the troops that a relieving force was near at hand, and then flew back to the main army. i Although the guns of the cruiser Duchayla assisted the advance the reI lieviug force was compelled to fight all the way along its line of march, and for eighteen hours they battled - against the native levies. Piles of dead Moors around' the castle showed how effectively the defenders repulsed the furious assaults of tho native levies. . l--.rmftm«fflAn.i™ f i.-„?.lffl.iMy_B-. j