Beyond the Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 179, 5 August 1909, Page 4

Beyond the Dominion

SPAIN'S LITTLE WAR. j London, August 1. 1 The Daily Telegraph's Madrid cor--1 respondent says that 10,000 revoluI tionaries in Barcelona on Wednesday I were parading the charred remains of j their victims. j They placed bodies, legs and heads ion poles, and carried them along, shouting vivas and whistling the ! "Marseilalise." j They passed under the nose of the miltiary commander, who was at the head of the troops, but nobody dared order a volley to be fired on the revolutionists. The latest news from Barcelona states that order has been restored. COAL STRIKE AVERTED. London, July 31. The Scottish coal dispute has been settled. The employers have conceded a minimum wage of 6s per day for a period of three years, and suitable machinery has been devised for fixing any increase as the trade improves. London, August 1. Newspapers of all shades of opinion congratulate Mr Winston Churchill on his successful meditation and his firmj ness and tact in averting a disastrous j struggle. j It i 3 calculated that national stopi page would have inflicted on English ! miners a weekly loss of one million | sterling. j Gratitude is expressed to the Scottish mine owners whose concessions 1 secured the settlement. MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE. New York, August 1. Messages from Mexico report a tremenduos earthquake, over 1000 square miles of country being shaken on Friday. Five hundred lives have been lost, and both the towns of Chilpanzingo and Chilapa destroyed. Mexico, August 1. The earthquake shocks in Mexico lasted for fourteen hours, and were renewed yesterday. , AH the churches at Acupulco and also the buildings on the water front collapsed on Friday. A great tidal wave simultaneous with the earthquake swept away the inmates of many of the buildings. Mexico, August 2. The earthquake shocks at Acapulco continued throughout Sunday, and nearly every large building was ruined. Seventy-three shocks have been experienced since Friday. In Mexico city thirteen severe shocks were felt and great damage to property was caused. Latest estimates of the loss of life show that about a thousand were killed by falling buildings. THE CZAR'S VISIT. London, August 2. Twenty suspects, including two Russian anarchists, were arrested at Cherbourg. The Czar had a long audience with M. Pichon, Foreign Minister. "Le Temps" comments upon the fact that the Czar and President Fallieres did not refer to French and Russian friendships with Britain, and suggests that this was because of the Kaiser's hallucinations about Germany being hemmed in being hardly yet dissipated. M. Pichon, interviewed regarding the Czar's meeting with King Edward, declared it would excite the suspicion in no quarter. The Czar received a party of French Crimean veterans, and presented them with gold medals which are granted Russian soldiers for bravery. The French flept escorted the Imperial yagcht Standart to Spithead. King Edward welcomed the Czar and Czaritsa at Spithead, and subsequently an inspection ot the fleet was held. ZEPPELIN'S CRUISES. Berlin, August 2. Count Zeppelin's airship, making a continuous journey, travelled from Friedrichshafen to Frankfort, carrying seven passengers, and passing over Ulm, Stuttgart, Heilbroun and Darmstadt, making the journey under 12 hours. The airship rose through a hailstorm to a height of 3000 feet. CHINA'S AWAKENING. London, August 2. The extent to which China is following the methods of Europe is shown by the arrival in London from Har.ko'.v of a shipment of 46tJ3 frozen pig-'. These, with consignments of heef, : poultry, deer, eggs and game, mar!: ! the beginning of a new Chinese e.\- ! port experiment. The consignments ; were stringently inspected prior to ' shipment. COMMUNICATION WITH THE ' EAST. Port Darwin. August 8. I Easterii files contain, information i that the Governor c: the Straits Sot- | tlements has assumed administration of 15, <j0'.» square mil--.-- <. f the Malay Peninsula, which was eo led te Britain under the re--, n.t.'-.:.cr'-t-Siantes ■:■ treaty. This cor.jtss:..:. manes : .ssmle railfor cuitin.tr Briti-l. mmunication to the East, "and : ractical.y closes the Straits of Malacca. THE TOTE IN VICTORIA. MAC urro, August 3. At the annual m-t-tlug of the Vietorian Racing CAI the profits for the vcar were tAdld. The Chairman ! stated that the t-tocmt attempt to in- ; truduce the Totalisator Bill showed 1 opposed to it. It was decided to wait ;