Summary of News.
Tho missing medico Miss Hickman j is accounted for— little tiff some- ! where More killing for pleasure in the Alps. An error in deciphering a cable has cost America n few thousands. The U.S. consul ut Beyrout was not even hurt. The revolutionists in the Balkans put forward proposals ; meantime the suicidal carnage goes on. The dynamiting of the Duda-Pcsth train is considered to be the worst thing tor themselves that tho revolutionists have done. The Turkish troops seem to be badly led or unwilling. The Turk has the reputation of being a "sticker" in war — remember Plevna — his heart in not in this work. Japan says that, if Russia is to get concessions in Korea she will also have an open door. Had tht* British people known four years ago what the Elgin Commission has revealed and disclosed, there would have been a change of Government.
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Southland Times, Issue 19138, 31 August 1903, Page 2
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150Summary of News. Southland Times, Issue 19138, 31 August 1903, Page 2
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