GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13056, 26 April 1910, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY. VANCOUVER, April 12. The question of who will be the nest United States President is being discussed in the American Press, and Mr Roosevelt's name is being freely used. The New York Sun ,suggests that Mr Beveridge, the Republican leader of the insurgents in Washington House of Representatives, who recently agitated for the deposition of the Speaker (Mr Cannon) owing to his alleged favouritism in selecting the Rules Committee, will be given the Democratic nomination. lor.the next Presidency. KROOS AND LIBERIANS. LONDON. April 14. The Kroo tribesmen are reported to have the[ sympathy of all foreign residents in Liberia, the negro republic in West Afripa, in the campaign they are now waging'against Liberian troops. The Kroos are said to be an independent and intelligent race. They supply practically the only labour that is available in West Africa, the Liberians themselves being incompetent. Europeans are uneasy at the fact that the .‘tribesmen are rapidly acquiring arms, for if serious fighting takes place the lives of foreigners will be endangered. THE MT. M’KINLEY CLIMB. NEW YORK, April 14. Professor Parker, who always doubted Dr. F. A.- Cook’s story of his having Teaehed.the summit of Mt.-MeKinley, has announced that he also disbelieves that the-Fairbanks expedition accomplished the ascent. The expedition stated that it ascended the-northem side, while Dr. Cook claimed to have scaled the southern side. The leader of the expedition has explained; that he started to , follow Dr. Cook s route, but had to abandon it as impossble. It' was cabled recently that the Fairbanks expedition had reached the summit of Mt. McKinley, but bad failed to discover the written record which Dr. Cook declares he left there in 1906. INTER-TRIBAL FIGHT FIVE HUNDRED KILLED. LONDON, April 11. War has broken out between two tribes in North East Arabia, and fierce fighting has resulted, 500 men being killed in three days. It is believed that this disturbance is a reflex of the Albanian affair. FAMINE OF LABOUR FARM HANDS IN CANADA. VANCOUVER, April 11. Though there has been heavy immigration to Canada lately a famine of labour is being experienced by farmers in West Canada. The shortage-is increasing, and 7000 farm ’pands are urgently required in Manitoba, 'Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

GERMANY WAKES UP

democrats take the offensive

LONDON, April 11. Although further advanced than a good naoy countries in the way of industrial legislation, Germany has always been under the rule of the aristocracy. The Liberal and Democratic patties have either been too weak or too hampered by tradition to take any active part against the titled class. But Germany, it is said, is now awakening, and a new era lias set in so far as politics of the nation as a whole are concerned. The Liberal Democratic clement are no longer jia&dve under the rule of aristocracy and have begun to take the offensive.