Second Edition. LATEST MESSAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 73, 9 November 1911, Page 6

Second Edition. LATEST MESSAGES.

HOME AND FOREIGN

CHINA

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 9, 12.20 p.in.) Pekin, .November 8. \ The Chinese at Pekin declare that the- Court ordered the murder of Wus. Cannon have been mounted on the walls,of the:Forbidden City. '■ The Court is' preparing for flight, and has already sent its servants from Jehol. ' The revolutionaries are in possession of Fuchaii and Faichau tor the eighth time. A. Manchuplpt to murder, members of the Assemoly has been discovered. ’’ Two hundred carts have been transportedtvith baiacO treasure from Jehol to' a secret place. ' Conference with Mongol princes foreshadow the Court’s joining the Mongols, and seeking Russian protection.

1 Tlib Regent’ in order to prevent troops- arriving, proposed to cut the r'ailWay southward at Scengbai, but desisted on Sir J. Jordan (British Ambassador) declaring that Britain was entitled to operate the railway under’, an old agreement. Fighting is going on at Nankin. ’ The Mfinchus Ure strongly entrenched in positions commanding the city, EMIGRATION. ' London, November 8. 1 A'deputation of leading emigration agents in Britain complained to Sir 6'.' Reid of the inability to find shipping accommodation for all emigrants (Offering. Many of those accepted 'had given up farm's and situations, ■ and -were unable to get away. The Agents-Geiicral had done everything to secure additional space. Victoria, Queensland, and West Australia were riot' accepting more until those on hand were' shipped., The deputation urged that if further ships were not available, Sir G. Reid should stop advertising. He refused to- do this, on the ground that the matter belonged to the Agents-General, ■ but S remised to see if anything could lie one.. CRYSTAL PALACE. ' •..•London, November 8. r : ilt is reported 'that a syndicate, headed by -.the Earl of Plymouth, has ptirchased : the Crystal Palace for £220,000. ' .. ■ —■— || | jsi-m Malta, November 8. Directly General Frugoni landed on Monday ’with 15,000 reinforcements, he; resolved on a sally with a view to, the... oasis. __ The. Turks and Arabs at the time were attacking tlie-trenches on the east of the town. The scheme was carried out with admirable rapidity andjenergy. The out-t post advanced; alqp'g the .sea|ffront.-. The Turks, although completely surprised, made a determined resistance for two hours, but were driven into the interior of the oasis by the grenadiers, whose charge was covered by a fierce battery near Hamadicli. A’ correspondent lately at Tripoli says' the Arabs, ensconced in a labyrinth of walled, gardens, fig groves, cactus, and 'alleyways, atacked the Befsagljeri in the rear, exterminating two companies manning the trenches in front and rear. A frightful inpment ensued when the Italians realised; the 1 '-possibility dfmten tlibu-j sand rifles teing' firecf with fanatical rage upon -'-their - rear. pThis ex L ‘' plains the* Italian“blood lust and'-the: miserable stampede of Arabs, who had a lesson for revolting indiscrim- 1 inate severity, but retribution ‘should have been less like an orgy of slaughter, ■ 'l'*" , ' ‘ \'i/' '.Wfix ( ’1 i. ’ A WRONG INTERPRETATION. • ... London, November, 8. . Sir Edward Grey, in the 'Comritorisj/ said tlib' alleged publications ,ci ; ides by‘the British Ambassador >. Vienria criticising' the German pokey, and also Mr. McKenna’s speech, cabled on the 29th September, had been the subjects, of cpmnunicii'lbns between the British and German Governments. They were not of n ture to cause difficulties. The incidents' were construed in Germany as intentional affronts, and aroused great resentment. The Ambassador and Mr. McKenna were victims of newspaper errors.

THE KING. . > London, Novcmh’or 8. 'The King has cancelled his' visit to Malta owing to cholera. extensive”FßAUDS. Colombo, November 8. Williams, manager for Dad well and Co., has been arrested for appropriating £44,592, which it is alleged ho lost imer libber i speculations. ■ . ... . . MINE ACCIDENT. Johannesburg, November 8. A fall of rock at the Primrose mine killed a European and entombed sixty natives. THE NOBEL PRIZE. Stockholm, November 8. The NoI)cl Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Madame Currie for physics, and Professor Wilhelm Wien, of. W.urtenburg. AMERICAN STATE ELECTIONS. ■ New York; November 81 The State elections returned Democratic Governors in Kentucky, Massachussets, and Mississippi, a Republican Governor in Rhode Island and a Republican Assembly in New York State. ' Previously New York’s Democratic majority was twenty-four but now tlje .Republicans have a majority of fifty, i Socialists secured marked gains in New York and Ohio. SCAMPED CENSUS WORK. Ottawa, November 8. The Minister for Agriculture has given orders for an investigation of the census returns in the leading cities, Numerous complaints are made of scamped work. AMERICAN PEACE TREATIES. ,• New York, November 8. ■ The envoy to, the Coronation declared in President Taft’s presence at a tp'eteting at Cincinnati that while the Rebate had not ratified them as yet the peace treaties with France and Britain were certain, ; and it would only.be a brief time before a popular demand overcame the Senators’ attitude.