EUROPE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 19, 6 May 1908, Page 11

EUROPE.

Strawberries grown by means of electricity are the latest dainty in Paris, rhe fruit is for od by electric currents. The berries thus grown are excellent in flavour and of large size. The total membership of the German Navy League is now upwards of a million. Its official organ has now a circulation of 375.000 copies. King Edward and Queen Alexandra, in continuation of their tour, have left Stockholm for Christiania. Owing to severe depression of trade in Germany, unemployment is general in almost all industries. Mount Etna is again in active eruption, the spectacle being a magnificent one. Signor Pellegrini, Secretary to Signor Zanardelli during the latter’s Premiership i n Italy, from 1901 to 1903, has published a statement that Zanardelli secured the sanction of Britain, France, Germany, and Austria to the ultimate establishment of a protectorate over Tripoli. aeries of extensive forgeries of French rente coupons (interest warrants on National stock) was recently discovered, and following up the slight clues available detectives have arrested a man named Hill, a counterfeiter and distributing agent in London, and Miller, his agent for Germany, at Weisbaden.

New Electrical Wonders, M. Armengand, president of the French Society of Aerial Navigation, has in vented an apparatus for supplementing the power of vision by artificial devices based on the employment of electricity making it possible to see immense dis tanees, possibly from Paris to New York The announcement has created remark aide interest. A Danish inventor, named Knudsen has demonstrated at the Hotel Cecil tlj< powers of a machine for transmitting pictures by any wireless system. Great Floods in Moscow. One fifth of the city of Moscow hm been inundated by the overflowing of th< River Moskoa. The floods continued for several days and fifty thousand residents of the lowci lying portion of the town suffered, bein’ rendered homeless and having their ef

fects destroyed to a greater < r less extent. I’l e damage occasioned is estimated at three millions sierlmg. ASIA. China has protested against the Japanese .-.lminist ration oi Korea. including that of th- ( hient territory between Korea and China. •Serious native riots have occurred in Annum, the disturbances being originated by anti-French representatives of the educated class. Britain is negotiating with Siam in addition td the acquisition of Kelantan and Tringano. for the cession of Kedah and portions of Kahman and Patani. in Malacca. Ked h x contains a strip of valuable tin country.. A bomb was thrown at a carriage in Muzallapore. near Pallia. Bengal, killing cue of the occupants. Miss Kenm\ly. and the cnaciim :n. and so seriously injuring Mrs. Kennedy that little hope of her recovery is entertained. Pnids ?ud News has reached Teheran that tne Kurds have again commenced their raids on Persian territory,, in the north-west of the Empire. A body of raiders three tip u-an.l strong pillaged the villages of l.’rumiah. Khoi, and Salmas, between Kurdistan and the C aspian S.ca. They looted everything of value from these villages and massacred two thou S iml men women and children, who were unable to escape. The Persian Government i> hurriedly collecting a force of 10.000 troops to proceed against th© Kurds, who have captured .and horribly maltreated 2000 women and children. Disaster* to a Japanese Cruiser. As the result <>f an explosion, the training cruiser Matsushima sank oil’ the Pescadores, in Formosa Channel. It is feared that 200 have parish© I. The Matsushima w anchored at Mekong when the m .gazirr exploded. tearing a huge rent in tin vessel’- hull. Sbe foundered almost immediately, ar.-.', only the bridge remains visible above tin surface of the water. Two cruisers who were anchored near her iiumcdiatvjy despatched their lamts and rescued 14 1 of the <?re\v, including some of the officers. The tot -.1 complement of the vessel was 300. and the missing thus total one hundred and fifty. The majority of the officers, including the captain. perished. There were fifty-eight cadets aboard the vessel, and man\ oi these wet drowned, including, it is feared, the sons cf the Marquis (Kama. ex-Cornmiiwlerin t hief of the Manchurian Army.