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North Otago Times, 18 August 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)

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UUHMAN SOLDIERS' DISCONTENT,

Several letters from soldiers in German South-West Africa liavo fallen into tho hands of tlio "Vonvnorts,' 1 These, the journal sitys, roveal an oxlraordiuury 6tala of affairs there. Several casts of mutiny are reported, in one of which a police commissary was badly handled, and in another an ollicor was stabbed.

Tlio oflieors, it is eaid, treat their men very badly.' Numerous soldiers aro angry that they aro kept longer in tlio colony than fhe.timo lor which tlioy had volunteered. In a caustic article on the statistic!) of tlio German Colonial wnm, tlio "Vorwatrts I ', states that in German East Africa, betweou l&Sl and 1903, tbero have bei\n nine punitive expeditions, seven espoditnna against l chiefs and tribes, four cnuyaigns, nnd thirty fights) in 'South-West Africa since 1801 there were four campaigns nnd nino fights; in tho Cuweroons, thirty expeditions of nil sorts against tlio natives. Many of these expeditions lmvo beon inspired and organised and carried out by men who liava turned out to bo notoriously bad characters. ENGLISH TEACHERS ABROAD, i Tho French nnd Gormnii Governments; have, says tlio "Daily Chronicle,'' init- : iatcd, iii conjunction with tlio Hoard of Education, i: schemo whereby a number; of young teachers (men ami women in tlio caco of franco, men only in tho easel of Germany) can bo appointed as lent-, porary "assistants" for ono year in rrcncli lycees and colleges or Prussian, gymnasia respectively. . ; Tho niniit duty of tlio "assistant'' will' bo to conduct small conversation classes for'about , two hours daily. Ho will not' reecivo a salary, but ho will bo lodged nnd boarded fit tho institution to which lio is attached, subject to tho provision that iii .Germany, in certain cases, ai sum of about ilis may bo paid to hint in lieu of board anil lodging. Candidates lot' such posts nni6t ho teachers (or intending teachers) in see-', ondary schools, and should preferably bo graduates of eomo British university. ;

A MYSTERIOUS MURDER. A terrible murtler took placo on June 11 at Camberley, near Aldersliol, Twc luiddlo-aged' iilaideii eistois, who • lived together• in a largo villa, wero attacked in tlio afternoon by somo unknown pereon, and' the 'attention of neighbours was drawn to'tho matter 'by tho younger ol tho two appearing in the street with n torriblo wound in hor throat and soverc injuries to her head. She was able to bpwik onty a feiv words, and on visiting tho liouso -those-who had gathered about failed to get a reply to their knocks. Colonel Lonedale, n neighbour of the ladies', enteral tho hiiilding and, to his horror, saw the elder sister Iving face downwards in the entrance liall in a pool of blood. Assistance was procured) and medical men summoned, and it wins found that Miss Hogg was quito dead. Further examination showed that her head was half-severed from hor body, and hor tomplos boro marks of violent blows. In one hand she was tightly clasping a liammor, the handio of which wad wrapped in a raj, Tho police wero at once sent for. Meanwhile, tho medical men wero doing all in their power to save the lil'o ot tho other sister, but' up to midnight sho had not recovered sullicicntly to bo able to givu any Account of tht terrible occurrence that took jilnce during tho afternoon at lleathliold, She is in a most critical condition, and at present tlio medical men declino to.pronounce an opinion m to her chances of recovery. Tho body of Miss Hogg senior was removed to tho district council's mortuary, where it awaits inquest by tho West Surrey Coroner, Aa already stated, tho Misses llogg wero very wealthy, lived alone, and wero of occcntric habits. Aa a rule, they went out together, and woro always most shabbily dressed, there being nothing in their appearance to indicate thoir affluent position. They were supposed to have been in tho habit of keeping largo euins of money in tho house. Investigations by the polico established the fact that the younger sister left lleathliold by the front door. Iter sister's body was discovered immediately insido the hull. Thero wero blood! staina loading from tlio hall through tho! ground floor of the house to the back' door, which was found wido open. In a sink in a scullery near by was a bowl of blood-stained water, as if somebody' had recently washed their hands. The' most careful search of tho house and' grounds failed to lead to tho discovery of tho knile or razor. Several drawers; in tho hoitfo had been ransacked. Until Miss llogg can mako a statement, it will not bo known whether any money or valuables wero takon by the murderer. The situation of lleathtield, although thero nro other houses eloso at hand, would facilitate tho escape of a murderer, for, close to the back garden, which, is approached by tho back door, is a wood, through which the murderer had evidently duelled. So far as can bo gathered, no screams were heard proceeding from lleatlifield before the younger sister rushed out into tho road. On the opposite tide of the road to Heathfield i« Old Dean Common military manoeuvring ground, It is supposed that the culprit hid in ono of the bushes, and waited for a favourable moment to enter the house. The. Misses Hogg' were well-known intho district. Altogether they had lived at Camberley for fifteen years. 1 Later in the evening tho younger Miss' Hogg was able to mako a statement to the police. Sho said;— "I went out in the afternoon at two o'clock, aa ia my invariable custom, for a walk. I returned homo about half-past threo, which is also according to my custom. Then I retired to rest. I left my sister downstairs. I had not been Upstairs long when I heard screaming, followed by a loud call for help. I at once weut downstairs, aud halfway down met a horrid man, Without my interfering, he rushed at mo violently, lie hit me on tho head with some sharp instrument. That is all I know" A strungo feature of tho case was that though'there was money in tho house as well as other valuables nothing wnß luiesiug. Residents of the district re-1 ported to tho police tho' fact that they bad observed a strange man skulking about tho neighbourhood, but no trace, of such a person wan obtained, ! Subsequent investigations it was lator 1 reported had led the polico to discredit the tramp theory, and to suspect tliatj the crime woa committed by "someono nearer, home," Inquiries we're being continued at date of latest advices, j APPALLING EXPLOSION ON Ai LINER. A terriblo explosion occurred on Juno! It at Liverpool oil board tho American; inpr liaveriord, by which ten men were killed aud about forty seriously injured, j i'lio causo of the disaster is a mystery, ■ "ho llavorford is a largo steamer of 11,(XXI tons register, ongnged in tho pas-1 winger and cargo trade between Liverpool ! and Philadelphia. Sho returned to Livorpool tlio previous afternoon, aud aftor landing her passengers, who numbered ovor 200, at tho,Prince's Landing. Stago, proceeded to tho llnskisson Hock, where sho disembarked 800 head of cattlo brought from America. The llavcrford remained moored for tho night alongside ono of tho quays in tho No 3 of tho dock. Soon after daylight nest morning tho. shore gangs of cargo hands went aboard,! and wero soon busily employed in taking out the large miscellaneous freight; which tlio llavorford had carried. At half-past seven o'clock, without any! warning, a loud explosion occurred in' No 8 hold, So violent was tlio concus-i Dion that a heavy iron bulkkoad divid-l ing No. 3 hold from No. 2 was blown! down, and soon the whole area was in! flames. Several men had been in tho hatch-! way of tlio hold, fastening tho tackle on 1 to the caigo preparatory to it being raised to tho deck, when the explosion took place, These mon wero killed outright. Others on tho dock near tho mouth of the hatchway, wcro dashed against iron pillars, projections, and rails. ; flio scene wan truly appalling, addod to which thero was tho firo raging down. Mow in tho holds, I nM S i,f U0 " staggering'effects! nniniurMi l 0" ' m(l ,J ? en overcome, tho j'i ; J 'f" working the ship began ■ jjrea exertions and plenty of nt fjl nand, they succeeded in extinguishing l ! the ilamoj by Hooding the hold. At last it was possible to explore tho ■ : hold, and a sickening experience it was It Dead and dying men, without%bs. 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OH« eorpso without a head were liil'triu over tho cargo in tlio hold. A score of other moil seriously hurt lay about moaning for- help mid scroiumiig with pain I torn eoalda and huitits. On deck tlio 6CCHO was alihost ns biiil. Til all directions lay men writhing'in agony, with burns ami-injuries of various kinds,

I'm bodied, mangled, torn, and (lis. figured beyond recognition, were' raised front tlio hold in an improvised "cradle," by tho'siiiuo taeklo which had lieon used to lift out IJio cargo il few minutes before.

Forly-fivo injured men, somo of them very gravely hurt, were conveyed in nmbtilancw to tlio Stanley Hospital, Uootlo Hospital, and Northern- Hospital. Ono of them died en route to tho Uootlo Hospital,

In tlio afternoon two of tlio poor fellows admitted to tho Northern Hospital expired, after indiscribablo suffering, and two moro succumbed later. Somo of tho survivors woro in a critical condition. _ At first it was rumoured that a fiendI ish infernal machine outrngo had been t committed, but tho American Lino olliI cials givo no crodonco to this theory. ; Tlio basia of this conjecttiro is said ; to bo that a box containing a picco of ! mechanism, mid marked "For Manchee- ; tcr, England," was found in a position ■adjacent to tho seat of tho explosion. Tho otvncis of tlio vessel, howovor, say that the box in question is an ordinary' American packing enso need for forwarding valves or looso parts of logitiinato machinery of a non-explosive character, j Tlio officials of tho company hold to tho belief that eomo of tho cargo may hnvo given off vnp.oum during tlio voy-1 ago, nnd that tlicso becanto ignited,' through ono of tho dpek labourers strik-i ing a match for tho purpose of lighting! his pipo. • j Tho force of tho oxplosion was simply; stupendous; so great was'it that one o'f| tho victims was projected with cannon-i liko force clean out of tho mouth of tho' open hatch, and ho fell on to a staging | on tho roof of tho dockslied alongside which tho Havcrford was lying, All work on tlio vessel was suspended] until an inspector from tho Explosivo! Department of tlio Homo Ollico had an j opportunity of examining tho hold, I

JEWISH TASKMASTERS., 0,000 SWEATED TAILOKS ON STRIKE IN BAST END. In old Montague St root, a narrow thoroughfare oil Wliitechapol, in a woodon barn/Jiko Miilding, dimly lighted, wherein tho air was heavy with evil odouw,, somo hundreds of beady-eyed, dark-haired Jews packed themselves together to listen' to tho address of Myor iiirkovitch, loader of the tailors' striko, Outsido, further hundreds gatliorcd, waiting piitiontly for a place in tho niooting-lmll; waiting quietly, so that, although thero wero almost a thousand, only two policemen wcro needed. They wore Jews in rovolt against thoir

taskmasters, determined to deliver Lliein- - 0; selves from the llorteo of Bondage, Six thousand of them have risen, says 'i | tlio ' Daily Chronicle," and aro de-maud- ® ing tho abolition of the sweating eye' i'toiu; tho substitution ot ut weekly wage, ■ r ; instead of piece-work; and tho reducf ! 101 i °'. interminable working davs Mto fixed hours, from eight to eight, with iinn hour lor dinner sml an hour for 'M.lunch. Waistcoat makers, btitton-holo I mnkeitf, trousers makers, jacket mak- ; cw, mtichinors, pressors, all. conio out "!on striko, and, unaided and without , | "iiKM, they moan to light for'their libi city against the evil conditions which aro isapiiiiig tlioir liv'w.' nil ji'''koviteh, tlio chairman of No, : 11 ranch of tho Amalgamated Society of 1 ; tailoia, said to a "Daily Chronicle" re- . preventative, "Wo began with 500, and • now wo Imvo o\Tr G,OIX). Tlio money wo ;; started on was .I' 3 lib, collected from ; . members. U'o aro lighting without; >, money, but wo are ready to die before wo ; compromise. We hnvo not even got tho 'Support of tlio Amalgamated Society of lailoiti, They tell us the time is not ■ npo tor it. We will not bo sweated any J! longer, • 1:, [ u " ,y°" that if some people knew . now tlio clothes tliey wear are made (hoy 3 would tear them to pieces. They aro 9' IH|| do with the blood and Iho lives of us i sweated ones. Most of us are eoiisumpfive. 4 ]\q start work at four in Iho' t morning «nd wo work till midnight, Hut now \vo aro altogether in tho light, . and wo will show Englishmen'that wo,' I (too, know how to redress our wrongs," )! komo °( the men have terrible storiw ;. jo tell of tho lioiim tliey work, Their are, they say, being crushed out' | Of them by rulhkw cmployers-by their own people, Jews who are mauler tailoiti' ; mid who act lis middlemen for homo of j'tlio big \\ cut-end and City houses, whoso , names are household words, < >j } .vo worked for thirty-two hours at a : f.fn? ■ ,*' 0,10 hollow-cheeked man. tj ilimy-two hours! And afterwards I' r' couldn l eat or drink—l lost taste. The. j work luiu to bo done if you'ro employed' (; to do it, and these swealors, instead of , i on H ll oyiug a lot of practical men tp 1 .f meet tho rush of work, take on plain' ,;machino men, and under proisem, under' ij; direction of one practical man. It' |, ia tho master's interest not to give all' jj tho work of expert men." •I. 1 l! e P#thelic part of this strike' .]id tho iorlmn altitude of eomo of tho' (imen, who (jav they aro quito ready to\ -.starve. It doesn't make much di'llei- . once, anyway. Even when. w 0 work, wo t;«out got a living said one, do--j epainugly. ,! Mli UIfYAN POIi I'I'ESIDL'iVCY, I I' , « .. ~~ I j mi i t ' oS l )a ' t 'h of ■'« no 8 says: i 5 —lho Bryan boom for Pre3iilency is as- , sunimg serious magnitude among the j j "Oinocrats all over tho eonutry, especi-' )| ally ill tlio wcot. Several western State havo declared for Mr lirvan 1 lor President in 1903, and Bryan cfuba> .■aro again being formed in tl places. ' At tho Missouri Stato.Convention, ex-: Uoyernor rrancicj, who was formerly an tjactivo opponent of Mr Hryan, made a ; | speech on Ins behalf, urging the Demo- (' Cj'ulio party to cmloivso hn eandidature. , Here, in New York, the Democrats aro ) planning a big roeeplion to Mr iiryan when he ret urns from his Euiopean t trip. II Mr Bryan should be nominated ,' ns now Ecenia most likely it will bo the i third timo that ho huu run for tlio Prcaidency. r! I; BALLOON FATALITY. i r! A balloon fatality occurred on Juno 11' ' I, . Ilowarth, near Keighley, the victim, i being a young woman named Lily Cove : i who, as a pupil of a woll-known aero- i ' i"! i fidmead, had made over: tivontv suecesslul descents by means of a i parachute. On tho occasion of tho accident, Miss 1 ■ lovo was giving an exhibition in cornice- ; (tion with a local fete. Tho balloon was • successfully inflated, thero was practic-' 'I ally no breeze, the light was good, and all I tho conditions wero favourable for a' successful performance. Tho balloon roso ! steadily to a great height, amid the, : cheers ot tho onlookers. When it had ,reached the altitude desired by Captain' 1 ! Uidmoad, and tho movements of the aero. ■ nnutg woro just barely discernible to tho " crowd beneath, tlio paracliuto was do- 1 taehed and began to descend, For somo i , unexplained reason, howovcr, when still ■ i at a consitlorablo height, Mi® Covo an-! peared to lose her hold of tho paracliuto, ■ and to tlio horror of tlio spectators, fell 1 rapidly towards the ground. 1 Almost boforo the spectators realised I what had happened, tlio unfortunato • young woman had fallen into a hold near : 1 onUen lieservoir. A rush was mado to ; • the spot whoro the body of the tinfortuu;ato girl lay, and many willing hands I i wiero ready to rondor hor assistanco. i ; Medical aid was at once summoned, but! . lifo was found to bo extinct. Captain i • Jiidincad was almost frantic at tho torj J'iblo occurence, j MOBBED IN MADRID, ' Mr Kohort Hamilton, a London insnr- . ance clerk, had hard luck in Madrid on the occasion of tho bomb outrage during tlio Itoval wedding festivities, 110 was arrested on suspicion, and whilo boing ■ conducted through th'o streets by tho police, waa nobbed and seriously as- . Baultod, a doctor having subsequently to : be called in to dress hia wounds, In tho evening, according to his own account, : ho ivas taken boforo ft judgo, and was j interrogated by a Mr Powell, ropresont- ! ing tho English police. Apparently he ■ got no sympathy from tho latter, tho conversation having.,been as follows; [ "Now', look 1i0r0,,, Itobort Hamilton, i you nro very much to blamo, You como .to a foreign country, yon go about as ifyou too in London, and, wlion you know there had been a bomb thrown, instead of remaining quiotiy at homo, you go about aa if nothing had happened, and 'you, who speak the languago and ;know. : i tlio Btato of excitement in which th'o peoi, \ MM V •

"l'lenso, sir," replied Mr Hamilton,' ovorybody was rejoicing, 'und 1 did not consider 1 wits doing wrong when rejoicing on tlio occasion.of tlio luippy evuut! pi. tlio union of Spain and Great Bri. ) tarn." . _ • . I Ho replied: "That is no jtifltifieation > I consider you huvo acted lilto a lunntio You have no connectio(i with tlio bombi, that a all right, You ought not to bo oekod up for. that, but you ought to bo 'locked up as a wandering lunatic. You nayo acted us if you too out of your' mind, . i ( Mr Hamilton rccoivod no apology from ' tho bpanish authorities, and mado noj chum for compensation, nor, it is said, 1 has ho nny present intention of doing f so. Ho is obviously a very humble- 1 spirited poison, who regards himself ns! rather honoured by tho ailcution liotcm- 1 | poranly attracted, j NO SLODI3 ALIEN PILOTS. : , By making a special effort tho Stand-,1 ing Comniitteo on Trade woro able to'' finish tlio consideration of tho Morchtuit ! (shipping Dill on Juno 13. ' I A now elntifc'o provided that tho port ' .at which tho seaman wits'shipped, or a 1 port in tho country to which, ho belonged, ■> or somo other port agroed to by tlio eca- • man, should be a proper return port foi ' tlio purpoi'o of repatriation. ' 1 , Mr Austin Taylor moved that n port I in tho United Kingdom should also lie ut I proper return for all discharged seamen, > Mr Kearley said foreign seamen were ' sometimes "dumped" in lirilnin mul < loft to their own resources. i Tho amendment was rejected by 31 to 5, ! Ml* Lloyd George undertaking to givo liirlher consideration to tho matter bo- : twoen now and the report stage.' 1 Mr Lloyd George, according to promise, i moved a new clause providing that after i J lino 1,1801!, a pilotago certificate should , not bo granted to the nmslor of a ship unlcsj ho was a lirilish subject. It was ' originally intended to bring tho clanso i into offeot after the passing of tho Act, hilt in anticipation of the Hill passing in- ' lo luiv n large niiinlJot' ol iiliciis wore now ' applying lor certificates; henco tlio f change. The clause would now affect 1 the renewal of any certificates held by ' aliens at present. | Somo mouthers considered tlio etauso 8 would seriously hurt trade. f Mr Lloyd Geoige said it was a question ' of national safety. The Director of Na- ' vnl Intelligence had expressed the view 'J that the granting of certificates to aliens ' was a possible source of danger to this (I country. ut The clauso was then added fo (he Hill, c which wati ordered to be reportod to tlio House. ] r CLHIMCAL

I In ordor to secure corporato action on j the part of tho Church of England on so- ; cial questions, a conference of clergymen, held at Morecambo on Juno 13, decided lo lorm n Church Socialists' League. Tlio speakers included tlio liev. Stew, art D. Iteadlani, father l'aul Hull, tho Her. Conrad Noel; the llev, Lewis DonUldson, of Loicwtor; Canon Moore Edo ;of Durham; the Jiov. W. E. Mold, ot 1 i Newcastle; and Councillor Richardson, ; iniiici-j' oiganiser, of Diirham. All. spoke I strongly on the nceil for tho propagation : of ,-Socialist teaching, : The liov. Stewart lleadlnm expressed Ins desire to see the' abolition of Chinch : patronage, declaring that the people had been rubbed of their privileges by tho patron. They wanted lo mako peoplo un> dcrstuiid that they woro (ho Church, I'flo wiw convinced Hint the only Iruo . foundation for their Socialist work was to ' be loiiiul in the Catholic .Church of Eng. land.