LATE CABLE NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 February 1911, Page 8

LATE CABLE NEWS.

COMPULSORY SERVICE. SIR lAN HAMILTON’S BOOK. | (Received 4. 9.5 a.m.) London, Feb. 3. Lord Roberts characterises Sir I lan Hamilton’s book as being mis- 1 ehievous, unfair, and wrong in j every point. ' [The book condemned by Lord i Roberts is ’Compulsory Training.” ! by General Sir lan Hamilton, with | an introduction by the Right Hon. j R. B. Haldane, Secretary for War. ! The book states the case against j compulsory training—meaning the i National League’s proposal for the; universal training of the youths ofGreat Britain in the ruui.nents of} a soldier’s duty, proposals modelled j on the systems which prevail in j Switzerland and Norway. Sir lan} holds that if Britain adopted com-} p.dsory training and service on the I Swiss model it would destroy the i regular army. | i

VICTORIAN RAILWAYS. ■ (Received 4, 10.0 a.m.) Melbourne. Feb. 4. I Railway improvements are con- J templated by Government, involv- i ing an expenditure of over a mil- ■ lion. j IRISH BLIGHT. ! Irish blight continues to spread, f Twelve potato areas are quaran-j tined. i THE AOTEA INQUIRY. (Received 4, 9.5 a.m.) Capetown, Feb. 3. Two certificates of officers of the Aotea have been returned. With regard to the captain’s certificate, decision is delayed pending inquiry, into his statement that the occult-, ing light on the breakwater was} improperly- screened. ■

A BRUTAL MOB. 1 (Received 4. 12.55 p.m.) New York, Feb. 3. A crowd rushing to enter a train fatally trampled upon a fifteen-year-old girlMEXICAN REVOLT. .Mexican troops are retiring be-, foie the rebels. The Revolutionary, forces gain recruits each day.