EUROPEAN TOPICS.
A SIBERIAN HOEEOE. [Special to Press Associations ST PETEESBU EG, March 20. The Viedomosti publishes a statement that a gang of exiles chained together were enveloped by snowstorms on the march, near Tomsk, in Siberia, and that two hundred and eighty, of whom sixty-two were political prisoners, perished. Only ninetyone escaped. March 21. The Eussian Government will demand a limit of thirty miles of coast in the Behring Sea islands, and ten miles in Kamschatks, for sealing purposes. PAEIS, March 21. The French Government has published a note in which it is admitted that Germans supplied the Dahomans with Gatling guns during the late war. EOl’E, March 21. The Pope declines an audience to the German Emperor, unless the ceremonial is similar to that of 1888. VIENNA, March 21. The Austrian War Office claims to have secured the secret of tha manufacture of a bullet-proof cloth, which will resist bullets at short range.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIX, Issue 9992, 22 March 1893, Page 5
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