The Lyttelton Times. FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1903.
The Victorian BaxKament has been summoned to consider the crisis in connection with, tihe railway employees. The authorities at Saskatchewan (have rigorously suppressed an attempt to organise a Doukhobor pilgrimage simil'ar-to liast winter's. The leaders vrtxe 'arrested and the pilgrims sent back to their reservations. Owing to Yunglu's death, the Emperor of 'China .has telegraphed to Kangyuwei, tihe' reformer who fled during the late troubles, to return immediately, and promising that all will bo well. Kjangyuwei ttas sailed from Calcutta for Hong Kong. The American Consul' in Canton declares ■that 150,000 persons are starving' in the Kwa-ngsi province of China. Mr Morrison, an American missionary, has reports to licrd Lansdowne nra-ny flagrant cases of official atrocities in the Congo. ' He declares that no Government in the world is so wicked, not even Turkey. The tEmerald, * turbine 'steamer, has successfully crossed the Atlantic, despite severe gales. During experiments by the French n'ayal authorities at Da Rochellc, two submarine boats attacked a .number of ironclads forward .and then plunged and attacked tihem, aft. Eyewitnesses declare -that in actual warfare the division would have been iajmiihi'lated.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13121, 8 May 1903, Page 4
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