CABLE NEWS. BRITISH STEAMER FIRED UPON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 8 April 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH STEAMER FIRED UPON.

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i ♦ _ TWO PASSENGERS KILLED, BRITAIN DEMANDS REDRESS. LPBESS ASSOCIAXIOM.I LONI^ON, April 7. Insurgent Arabs on the banks of the rive 1 ! Tigris fcibjected the British steamer Blosssilynch to a heavy rifle fira . A Turkish patrol en the steamer accompanying thei Blosselynch returned the insurgents' fire. Two of the Bloss«lynch's passengers were killed afid severfi wounded. In response to Britain's emphatic den?and fr.r redress^ Poatci promises to punish tlui aggrresors. .