BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, June 12.
Lord Roberts, in a weighty letter to the press, emphasises the pressing necessity «f the universal training of the youth of the nation to shoot. He appeals to the LordsLieutenants of the counties, the mayors, and the local authorities to originate rifle clubs, and also invites contributions amounting to £100,000, in order to place all organisations on a permanent footing. He adds that if the British soldiers in South Africa had been able to shoot better most of the unfortunate incidents would not have occurred. BRUSSELS, June 13. . The Commission of Inquiry into Congo Free State affairs has presented its report to King Leopold. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 13. Severe earthquakes are experienced at Sutari daily. NEW YORK, June 15. Mount Pelee, on the island of Martinique, is again in active eruption. Chicago advises that by a flood in the Mississippi one million dollars' damage has been done to the railway, one million to crops, and several millions in the Hamnibof and Keokuk districts. OTTAWA, June 13. Sir Frederick Borden, in the Dominion House of Commons, declared that the Militia was increasing yearly and was larger to-day than ever it had been since the Fenian raid in 1870. There was no difficulty in recruiting a permanent force. The Canadian was the best paid in the world, receiving lodol a month, and a substantial increase after the fust year service.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, June 12.
Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 53
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