General Cable News.

Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 15, 28 November 1905, Page 2

General Cable News.

CONSTANTINOPLE, November 25. The combined squadrons of the Powers left Perseus, steaming toward the Turkish island of Mitylene. The final reply of the Sultan is to the effect that if the Powers persist in their demands and resort to coercion, the Porte cannot assume the responsibility of events, as Moslem opinion will be justly incensed at the attacks on the Empire’s rights. The Sultan’s veiled .threat, regarding disorders which may follow the naval demonstrations, has been taken to mean that massacres of foreigners in Turkey may follow. This has aroused great indignation in diplomatic circles. It is reported in Vienna that owing to the character of the Sultan’s reply the solution 0 of the difficulty will rest with the warships’ operations. The Powers have warned Bulgaria, Servia and Greece to remain neutral and passive during the demonstration. The German Government claims that the Germain Ambassador has again urged the Sultan to yield. The Sultan has placed in Germany orders worth £2,500,000 in recognition of her having refrained from taking part in the demonstration. ST. PETERSBURG, November 25. The Governor-General of Warsaw has secretly instructed ten governors in various districts to consider the eight-hours-a-day agitators as rioters and organisers of gatherings as insurgents, and to shoot them until all are exterminated. The lock-out, owing to the workmen ceasing work each day on completing eight hours, has now become general. Fifty thousand are idle. AdmiJal Birileff, replying in council « to the workmen’s delegates, refused the eight hours a day at the Admiralty yards. The peasant conscripts at Ekaterinburg have refused to take the oath until their * demands for land have been satisfied. A regiment of soldiers, with sailors of the fleet and harbour hands at Sebastapol, are in a state of mutiny. While RearAdmiral Pisareveski was in the act of forbidding the holding of public a sailor fired and seriously Avounded The mutineers, carrying a black coffin and red flags, mardhed the streets for three days in spite of the Admiral’s <• Avarning to leave the town. Detach-* ments of troops have left Odessa for the scene. Sinister rumours are prevalent as to the disaffection of the 14th and 18tli naval battalions at St. Petersburg. LONDON, November 26. The second test match, New Zealand footballers against Ireland, was played at Dublin. The weather was dull and the ground soft. Over twelve thousand were present. Ireland had a fine team, excepting one being all old international players. A hot contest Avas anticipated, as there was every evidence of Ireland’s desire to secure victory. In the first spell NeAv Zealand scored 5. The second half was a ding-dong one, and New Zealanders had a lively time on the defensive. At the finish New Zealand had scored 15, Ireland nil.