FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14392, 6 January 1911, Page 6

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

A NEW KEUl'l' GUN, Press Association—By Tel. —Copyright. .Received 12.5 a.m., Jan. 6th. LONDON, Jan. 5. According to the new Naval Annual, tli-o " Taschebuch dor Kreigsflotten," Krupp's catalogue of ship and coast defence guns contains a new 354 centimetre- (14.'2 inch) weapon. This has ; come miTelessly into existence. The i "Taschebuch" declares that the bal- | listic data relating thereto guarantees ■ its pre-eminence, j BULGARIA. SOFIA, Jan. 5. In a debate on a motion fur a coiii--1 mitlve t.i inquire into tlio Stjunbuluil' Cabinet's purchasing too costly war nmti'n'ai, it was stated that foreign advisors urged Turkey in 1903 to at-" tack Bulgaria without a declaration of war. Bulgaria's active army was incre.'sed to 180,000. Correspondents state that the iiiteriiatinniil control of Macedonia prevented a. aconflict in 1906. TO END DISPUTES. RecfflVjd 10.45 p.m., Jan. sth. LONDON, Jan. 5. Majjr A. Woodroll'e, Captain H. Toppin and Lieuts. Jf. Nanson and C. G. Moores, have been lent to Peru for tliree years, to demarcate the frontier, between Peru and Bolivia. They sailed yesterday. Peru has agreed to submit her dispute with Eucador to the Hague Tribunal.