VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8386, 22 March 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

OUTBREAK IN ROUMANIA. ' Received March 21, 8.6 a.m. BUCHAREST, March 20. Peasants at Bottosani, Roumania, set fire to Jews' houses and attacked the military, who killed four. The outbreak is spreading. Twenty thousand Jews have taken refuge in Austria. * THE JENA. Received March 21, 8.25 a.m. PARIS, March 20. M. Bos, Reporter for the French Naval Estimates, blames the Ordnance Department for disregarding warnings, extending over five years, respecting the decomposition of the powder on the battleship Jena. M. Bos declares that other vessels have not changed their powder for thirteen years. i Received March 21, 10.42 p.m. PARIS, March 21. In the French Chamber of Deputies the Minister of Marine announced that the Senate had accepted the appointment of a Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Jena explosion. He added that the-ammunition had been overhauled in September. MILK-BLENDED BUTTER. Received March 21, 8.6 a.m. LONDON, March 20. The Agents-General are asking the Board of Agriculture to include in the Butter Bill a prohibition of the sale of milk-Dlended butter. FIGHT WITH A ROBBER TRIBE. Received March 21, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, March 21. The Tibuk tribe of robbers, in Central Africa, have recently given trouble, and a' punitive expedition comprising upwards of two companies of infantry were despatched to the robbers' stronghold. The infantry, showing smart work, closed upon the enemies' water holes and then gradually stormed the Tibuks' stronghold, consisting of piled-up boulders. The infantry, who wore padded coats and blankets, were constantly harrassed by the discharge of poisoned arrows. The Tibuks' casualties totalled 300. On the British side Lieutenants Chaytor and Thompson were wounded and eleven infantrymen were killed and forty wounded.