CABLE BREVITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 13672, 4 May 1912, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

George Borup, Peary’s aide, who accompanied him to the North Pole, was drowned in Long Island Sound owing to a motor canoe being upset by a hfavysea. Speaker Willi,-., of Now South Wales, received through the post a package containing a cartridge similar to those used in a sparklet syphon. The letter actompanying stated that it was an explosive bomb. During a May Day meeting in Union Square, New York, the Socialists tore down the American flag and hoisted a red flag i instead. Die crowd howled “Tear that dirty rag down 1” ''The police ineffectually tried to interfere, but were powerless. The British Government has already ordered 20 aeroplanes and authorised tho construction of an additional HO. During discussion of the Samoan estimates in the Reichstag, Dr. Solf (Governor of Samoa) reiterated his opposition to marriages of natives and whites. The whole country, he said, would thank the Reichstag if it prevented mixed marriages.