LATEST CABLES.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 48, 20 July 1908, Page 4

LATEST CABLES.

The German Court Scandal.

BERLIN, July 18

Upon the advice of medical experts and at the Crown prosecutor’s instance Prince Eulenborg’s trial on the charge of perjury in connection with the Harden case has been adjourned indefinitely, the grounds given being that the Prince is physically incapable of following the proceedings and conducting his defence. In court, Prince Euleuborg, raising himself on his couch earnestly but vainly implored that the case proceed. He urged the painful suspense and the uncertainty of his recovery and the prospect of his death before the charge was cleared up. The general impression is that the trial will not be resumed.

The Kolapore Cup.

LONDON, July 18,

The Kolapore Cup, shot for at Bisley, was won by the Motherland with a score of 762. Canada was second with 758 and Guernsey third with 751,

The Olympic Games.

LONDON, July 18.

At the Olympic Games Beaurepaire won his heat in the hundred metres swimming race, Turtukover getting second in another heat. Kerr was scratched in the final of the ten mile walk which was won by Lanier in 1 hour lomin, 57secs., this establishing a new amateur record.

Imperial Conferences.

LONDON, July 17.

Mr. H. J. Tennant, M.P. for Berwickshire, speaking at the Liberal Colonial Club, said that he hoped under the wise guidance of the Earl of Crewe, thTs Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Colonel Seely (Under-Secretary) the Colonial Office would do something to give reality and permanency to the plan for a secretariat of Imperial conferences. He added that the Club’s object was to foster and stimulate an intelligent attitude on Colonial questions. Lord Burnham is President, Lord Northclifle Hon. Treasurer, Mr. C. A. Pearson Chairman of Executive, and Mr] Harry Brittain Hon. Secretary of the committee appointed to invite the leading oversea journalists to an Imperial Conference. Many newspapers warmly support the proposal.

The English Railway Signalmen.

LONDON, July 17,

The Master of the Rolls has upheld the Great Western Railway signalmen’s claim to submit to a Conciliation Board items of the National Programme prepared by the Birmingham Conference.

As a result of this decision various boards must meet to discuss the signalmen’s demands for an eight hours day, single booking for day work, time and a quarter overtime on week days and time and a half on Sundays, also an increase of the wages of those working more than oight. hours and an increase in the case of the London workers. A War Forecast. BERLIN, July 18. General Blame, who has presented a remarkable report on the German General Staff, states that Germany can put 4,750,000 soldiers into the field in the next war. The cost to Germany would be £300,000,000 annually, apart from indirect financial and commercial losses which would be far greater if several European powers were involved, as seemed likely, when the added cost would be proportionately greater. General Blume estimates that a Eurojiean war of the same duration as that <4 ; Russia and Japan would cause at hit 900,000 casualties and would becom ; a | veritable orgy of blood.

The Air Torpedo. BERLIN, July 17. The Krupp Engineering Company hovs acquired the patent rights of Colonel Urge s new Swedish air torpedo whick invention CClar ° *° an D loo * l making A Lightning Catastrophe. PARIS, July 17. Lightning struck some buildings on a farm at Saint Christopher, France in winch fourteen persons were sheltering from a thunderstorm; thirteen of the number were killed. Explosion in a Customs House. NEW YORK, July 17. While the Customs Officers of Boston were trying to open, with an axe, a box of detonating caps landed from the Hamburg-American liner Betliania an explosion occurred. As a result the officers, an inspector and a warehouseman jured. kl and stveral bystanders inThe A.M.P, Society in London. LONDON, July 18. Following on the decision of the Australian Mutual Provident Society to extend the ramifications of its business an office has been opened in London and Directors have been appointed. To the North Pole. LONDON, July 18. Commander Peary lias sailed in (be slop Roosevelt from Sydney Cape Breton Island for the Arctic. He declares that he will spend tlree years in his attempt to reach the Pole. 1 c The British Licensing Bill, LONDON, July 18. In the House of Commons the resolution proposing the use of the guillotine 111 the Debate on the Licensing Bill was carried by 209 votes to 89. [This curtails the debate and prevents stonewalling tactics, the bill being passed resnl'f^ 1 th<! ? 0,, . 8e tjy Bectio ns. The tent on of t e i!"rl‘ aSl " eS the nna,t<! ™blo inWm r ® G t m ernment t 0 I )ass Licensin„ legislation this session in the face of opposition:/ and CBl>i “ The Persian Constitution Troubles. TEHERAN, July 17. Sata Khan, the leader of the constitutionalists, is defending two quarters of Tabriz against Rnkhiir. Khan’s soldiery who hold the rest of the city. (Sula 'that'! a, - ,p< ' a , ,s to . Britain on the ground f' at ,/ ftVln ß been instrumental in obtaining the constitution she ought to uphold TEHERAN, July 18. The Elders in the chief quarters of Tabriz having agreed upon concerted action against the Government forcesVhe priests harangued the crowds and thonKhan’s° h ei^ Jzens proceeded to Rakhini Khans headquarters and threatened a holy war unless he withdrew. Rakliim without waiting to parley, withdrew his horsemen to the suburbs and the mob tne roßl <lcnces of the Shah’s wealthiest supporters. Many of Rakhim’s horsemen were isolated in the town and killed and the majority of the infantry melted away into the crowd of civilians.’