VERY LATEST.
TOWN EDITION.
THIS DAY.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received December 13th, 9.20 a.m. MISSIONARIES IN CHINA. Shanghai, December 22.
A Chinese literatus has been sentenced to death for threatening a missionary at Kiang. The Dowager Empress decorated the missionary, and issued an Imperial decree thatjlmissionaries preached good morals.
AN OUTRAGE AT BANGKOK. Bangkok, December 12.
The Siamese authorities refuse to apologise for sacrilege in breaking into a church in Bangkok, which was searched for illicit spirits. The French inhabitants insinuate that the British inspired theoutrage.
THK KHEDIVE PLAYS SECOND ■FIDDLE.
Cairo, December 14.
The Khedive dismissed a number of Anglophile Moslem charity oflicials, but Lord Cromer reinstated them.
Received December 13th, 10.40 a.m. DREYFUS RETURN IN G.
Paris, December'^.
The French. Government are taking extensive precautionary measures in connection with the rumoured arrival of Dreyfus. A thousand guards and; police have been detailed to prevent the followers of M. Deroulede and other antiDrefusites making a demonstration in the streets and at the railway station. It Is expected that Dreyfus will be lodged at the Conciergerie in the Palaeo de Justice, and so render it unnecessary for him to traverse the streets en route to thb tribunal. It is believed that M. Freycinet will order Colonel, Picquart’s re. lease, General Zurlinden having refused (o doro,
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 9226, 13 December 1898, Page 3
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