GABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9066, 9 November 1909, Page 7

GABLE NEWS.

(Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Pee Pbess Association.) TEHERAN, Nov. 8. The crnieer Fox captured 1200 rifles and 120,000 cartridges in the Persian Gulf. M. Giors, Russian Vice-Consul at Ardebil, telegraphs the safety of Russians and 2000 refugees. The Russian flag was respected. The Russian threat to punish Rakhima followers, who were freebooters, is regarded with distrust at Teheran. MOROCCO, Nov. 8. Two Spanish battalions and battery occupied an important position at Gurugu overlooking the bay and the plain_ outside the Melilla and Trugana Bensicar territories. The lower Mohomeds have now submitted. PARIS, Nov. 8. An explosion led to the discovery of a Russian terrorist propaganda centre and bomb factory' in Paris. Reuter states that a thousand convicted criminals are enrolled in the different French regiments under the conscription law of October, coming in contact with respectable youths. The Minister is determined to ask Parliament to sanction the reforming of this state of things. CAPETOWN, Nov. 8. The Earl of Selborne, South African High Commissioner, speaking at a banquet at Bulawayo, said that many large and important questions required settlement. Rhodesia would not enter the Union until South Africans and Rhodesians were chartered. He agreed that the time would be ripe when that time arrived for the Imperial Government to give the utmost assistance.

CALCUTTA, Nov. 7. The military police at Salchar despatched a rebel Russian raiding Southern Sylhett, India. NEW YORK, Nov. 8. The first of several indictments involving other trans-Atlantic companies has led to the arrest of Gipps, agent for the Holiday American line at New York, for violating the interState commerce law by receiving rebates from three railways. OTTAWA, Nov. 8. The Canadian Government has decided to borrow two cruisers from the Admiralty for the purpose of inaugurating the training of officers and men for the Canadian Navy.

LONDON, Nov. 8. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has informed the National Peace Council that AngloGerman Arbitration Agreement was renewed only for a year, because when it was expiring the question of inserting additional matter would be under consideration, but the British Government had since decided to favour a renewal for the remainder of the quinquennium.