LATE CABLE NEWS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13932, 14 July 1917, Page 6

LATE CABLE NEWS.

ALLIES CARRY OUT 810 AIR RAIDS MILITARY POINTS DAMAGED. (Per Cnble—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z, Cable Association.) Received July 14, at 12.50 a.m. LONDON, July 13. The Admiralty announces naval aeroplanes last night carried out raids against military objectives at Ghistelles and Varssennere railway dump, causing heavy explosions and an intense conflagration. We attacked with gunfire, the railway siding at Arren and bombed a train at St. Denis-Westrem, bombed Ostend railway lines and the electric power station and caused a firo near the latter. Several tons of bombs were dropped. All the airmen returned safely.

SERIOUS RIOTING IN AMERICA. STERN MEASURES ADOPTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association Received July 1-1, at 12.50 a.m. NEW YORK, July 13.

There have been unprecedented scenes at Bisbec in Arizona, where eleven hundred troublesome I.W.W. agitators -were bundled into cattle trucks and deported to Mexico. The men arc' mostly strangers and have fomented labour troubles and terrorised the workers for weeks.

The trouble culminated .bv the sheriff (Mr Wheeler) calling a ■midnight meeting of citizens. He enrolled two thousand deputies and distributed revolvers with orders not to shoot except in selfdefence. At dawn the deputies swept through the town ami searched the houses. They rounded up the strangers in the park enclosure, where they were kept till they entered the trucks. Shots were frequently exchanged and two I.W.W. were fatally shot, This is the beginning of a campaign to clear the country of German-inspired plots ami disloyal industry. 1 The I.W.W. terrorism has been rampant, in many western States. The situation is most critical. Received July 14, .12,20 a,in, LONDON, July 13. The death is announced of Mr Patrick O'Brien,M.P.

THE MESOPOTAMIA AFFAIR,

FURTHER. STATEMENT, (Australian arfd N.Z, Cable Association) LONDON, July 14. In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain, referring to the earlier move on Baghdad, prmly repudiated the charge that Ministers, for political reasons,.had deliberately sent men. to a hazardous gamble. ]je defended Lord Hardinge, the gravest' allegations were because lie trusted the military affairs too implicitly to the military advisers sent him. The debate was adjourned,