BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Grey River Argus, 6 October 1905, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

THE BERLIN STRIKES. BERLIN, Octobpr 4 Thousands of strikers -ttied to stop the Berlin trams. The police dispersed Uiem with drawn swords but nobody was .injured. Numberej .CjF pTovincaaSl .engui^ hands and stokers are working in Berlin und^r police protection. JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR. LONDON, Oct 4. Russia is seeking to charter a Liverpool steamer to convey 880 Japanese prisoners to Japan. It is believed that these TepTesent a.l the prisoners captured who were conveyed to Europe. DISTURBANCES IN AUSTRIA. VIENNA Oct 4. Cavalry and infantry have suppressed fresh disturbances in the streets o» B-unn. DANISH STATE MORTAGE BANK. COPENHAGEN Oct 4. Tlie Danish Government submitted to '.he Riksdag a bill creating a State Mortgage Bank which guarantees Credit Foncier bonds. REVIEW OF JANANESE FLEET. TOKIO, Oct 5. Offer the ratification iof peace: 'tineMikado reviews, in Tokio bay, 200 war ships including the converted cruisers. Hi,*, hope is expressed that a British squadron will be present. THE HAGUE CONVENTION. LONDON Oct 5. Great Britain has accepted the principle of the Hague P/.tacc Conference and asks for particulars of ite scope and character. WASHINGTON. Oct 5. Mr McCa'U, president of the New York Life Socfety, testified that it-iree-fourths of the legielthion introduced in State legislatures was blackmail bills designed to badger and harass companies. A LIBEL CASE. LONDON, Oct 5 Mr Homer, a member of the House of Commons, is suing the newspaper Truth for libel in conni?ction witrT-K:-maxkable/ cjiarglesi regarding ai cheque transaction aboad. ARBITRARY ARRESTS IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG Oct 5. General Trepoff dfeclaitti that it is impossible tb abolish the system of a** bitraTy arrests till 'courts with summary jurisdiction are «stablisls-fl. LORD BRASSEY'S OFFER. LONDON. Oct 5. Lord Brassey explains that he did n.f.t supply the funds Do construct the houses' ■in Calabria for the sufferi-irs by the. earthquakes. He merely' suggested de signs for clteap cottages. MOROCCAN MURDERERS SURRENDER, Benytisef, the instigator of the murder of Madden, the Austro-Hungarian Vice Consul at Mazagan on June 12th, has*, surrendered and his five Moorish acorn. plio3e have been arrested. The "object of the crinia was to recover title deeds xn Maddens possession.. " CHOLERA IN GERMANY. ' LONDON, Oct 5. The cholera in Germany is dying out and there were only 89 fatal out of 261 case's. ' • *"