CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20095, 2 June 1914, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(United Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, May 31. The renovation of the apartments at Hampton Court where Cardinal Wolsey lodged, revealed an oak panelling obscured by papered canvas, also two ancient moulded doorways with their original iron heoks for hanging massive .stone doors, line stone fireplaces and beautiful ornamental ceilings, all excellently preserved. Immense crowds at Liverpool witnessed the commencement of ;the Aquitania's maiden voyage. The invention for the safety of life nfc sea provided by the- new wireless call termed the safety signal, to be used at wireless stations, will serve to transmit to vessels urgent information as to icebergs, derelicts, approaching storms and other dangers, consists of "T.T.T.," lepeated at short intervals ten times at full power. BERLIN, May 31. Aviator Plock has been released. The "Tagliche Rundschau" says that Britain has definitely rejected France and Russia's request to join the FrancoRussian naval convention. Sir Edward Grey intimated that the Government desired in deference to British sentiment, to maintain good relations and avoid a. step which might be regaided as directed against the latter country. | NEW YORK, May 31. | The whaling steamer Harman picked up Captain Bartlett off Siberian coast, where he went across the ice after his j i steamer, the Karluk, was lost. The I Harman will attempt to break through the ice and reach the Karluk's marooned crew. CAIRO, May 31. An imposing military procession of British soldiers _-buried" the remains of Napoleon's soldiers, recently discovered at Alexandria. DURAZZO, May 31. The international commission "considers that the revolution wias planned and te<\ by the Young Turks, and has requested the Powers to remonstrate woth the Porte. LONDON, May 31. In a gas explosion at the Sillcstoce collieryj.Wharncliffe, eleven were killed. The rescuers, after three hours' dangerous work brought the injured men to the surface, but most of them, succumbed. The news caused the breaking up of cricket and other sports, and a wild stampede to the pit-head.

SOFIA, Miay 31. An official statement accuses a Parisian cinematograph operator of the reconstruction of the siege of Adrianople, representing the Bulgarian troops by a heterogeneous mob, mostly gipvsies, supported by Servian artillery, while tho Turkish soldiers are photographed in their paa-ade uniforms iand complete equipment. Gipsies, wearing veils, represented Turkish women alleged to have been assaulted by Bulgarians.