NEWS OF THE WORLD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14926, 31 August 1910, Page 4

NEWS OF THE WORLD

The following items have appeared in Iha Australian papers employing the independent, cable service :—■

OTTAWA, August 19. In a speech at the Summer Science Bohool at Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Henri Bpurawa, the Nationalist leader in Quebec, warmly advocated the annexation »f Canada by the United States. He pointed out that Imperial Federation meant an , Imperial Council with, a .preponderant British influence. The conditions in Canada, he declared, were all for annexation, rather than for Imperial Federation. NEW YORK, August 19. Mr ■Hudson Maxim, df New Jersey, 'declares that he has perfected a gun which will meet every demand in aerial warfare. The new weapon, he says, will firo from every point of the compass. - BERLIN, August 19. A telegram from Mainz, in Rhenish • Hesse, reports that while some military inancotivres were in progress yesterday, I an explosion of dynamite occurred, as a jrault of which 15 soldiers were buried | under a great mass of debris. Whether F any of tho victims have been killed is I not yet known.

VANCOUVER, August 19. Speaking in Victoria la&t night, the Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid G Laurier, said he did not believe that the pooplo were in favour of the gift of a Dreadnought to the Motherland. His own opinion was. that the nucleus of the new Canadian navy would prove of great ser- : ■ vice not only to the Dominion but also to tho Australian and-other fleets of the Empire. .. : ,

' LONDON, August 2L Ex-President Roosevelt has been invited to open the Central Canada Exhibition on September 12, Tho London port authorities have been ordered to make a careful , examination of.'.all arrivals from tho Continent, in order lo prevent the introduction of cholera. .

,Tho German trade unions connected with tho iron industries will consider in a fow days whether they should join the shipbuilding strike. In the event of their deciding to come out (he total number on strike will be 300,000.

It'is reported ithr.t Moissant, Latham, Farman, and I'aulhan will compete for a special prize of £5000 that is to be offered for a non-stop flight from Paris to Cler-mont-Ferrand, 212 miles S.S.E. of the Frencli capital. Each aviator must carry a passenger.

King George has sent a gift of £5 to James Doughty, the oiliest circus clown living, who, notwithstanding his years, is still performing.

The leading Norwegian newspapers arc urging Norway's historic right lo the ownership of Spitzbcrgen, the group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, between Franz-Josef Lan and Greenland, with its reindeer products. The claim, it is said, ife likely, to jeopaTdiso pending international .negotiations.

August 22. Following the murder of a Khurdic-h chieftain, Mitgia Kervali, the Kurdish tribes in. the Urumiah district, Persian Armenia, have declared open war. They attacked about a dozen villages, all of which were destroyed. A hundred villagers were put to death, the most horrible atrocities being perpetrated upon tho. women. A force of Persian- troons

.that.was sent to dear with the Khtirds 'was driven, back after a desperalo battle, . '/ Political circles are just now discussing ; a'grievance that Lord Kitchener, is said •to have. If there is anything »n the humours that are going about, the hero . of .Khartoum is a much-disappointed man. '■■' According to .these reports King Edward - used his influence to secure the appaint- ■ ment of Lord. Kitchener to the Governor- ■■'■ Generalship of India. The late King was .supported in the effort by-Mr Haldane, Secretary of War, but, so the sloTy goes, Lord Morley, Secretary for India, do-, clinod to entertain Kitchener's nomination, and the appointment of a military Viceroy was therefore abandoned. A London paper publishes a story in -.which Moissant, the young American architect, who lately made himself famous "by his cross-Channel flight, is represented supposed originator of a bold scheme for ending the 'Nicaraguhn revolution:', At, the' outset of tho insurrection v tho suggestion was made by a certain officer to General Zelaya. who was then President of the Republic, that, he should purchaso somo airships in Switzerland and use them for carrying his army across the mountains. In this way, it was pointed out, tho Presidential forces ; could easily negotiate what would otherwise bo insuperable obstacles, and would then have no difficulty in suppressing t*io revolt. It is now supposed that Moissant was the "officer" who conceived this daring enterprise. Although ho is 6aid to have proceeded to the Continent to arrange lor tho purchase of the airships, the schemo never materialised,, and tho young Chicago archiect was not heard '- of again until ho made his late sensational flight, BERLIN, August 21. ' The Czar and Czarina will'visit Germany next week. The journey is to be undertaken in tho interests of the .Czarina's health. While- •in Hesse the Czar will meet the Kaiser, with whom he will hold a. conference, from which big results aro prcdicetd by politicians. ' Dr Emil Reich, the celehrated historian nnd lecturer, makes tho gloomy prediction (hat an Anglo-German war must take pltce. He declares that the antagonism between Britain and Onnnany can be terminated by nothing short, of a conflict. "'lf," he 6ays, ''the Germans are victorious over tho British fleet they can invado England unci hold it for some time. ' Tho British. wit» their present army organisation," the doctor further declares, "could never invade one town in Germany."