LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 891, 14 May 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh Received 11 p.m., May 111. London, May 10.

The Mullah’s followers laugh at the small wounds caused by the British solid bullets. They declare that the Mullah causes them to heal quickly. Details of the capture of Sokoto show that COOO fanatical Fulani tribesmon fought desperately for hours. Showing inditforence for the fierce Maxim iire, they charged within a few yards of the British square. Despite their wounds they died crying “ Allah.” The chiefs heroically defondod the Emir. Tho Standard’s correspondent states that the captured city is seven miles in circumference, hut much inferior to Kano. M. Plaucon, Russian Charge d’Affairs at Pekin, declares that ail Manchuria is open to foreign travellers. Passports are unnecessary. Thu reported re-occupation of the Lia-aon forts is due to troops resting there while proceeding south.

Received 12.11 a.m., May 11

Mr \V. T. Maud, artist mid war correspondent of tho London Graphic, after a narrow escape during the rcceut attack on Major Gough’s column in Somaliland, has died at Aden of syncope. New York, May 13.

Tho stevedores’ strike at Valparaiso is spreading. The police fired upon the strikers, killing and wounding a dozen. Trade is paralysed.

London, May 13,

Applicants for the Transvaal loan for amounts under two thousand receive nothing. Thoso for two thousand and upwards receivo two and six-tenths per cent. A thousand attended the King’s levee at Ilolyrood, and six hundred ladies in morning dress attended the Queen’s court. A picturesque bodyguard of archers under the Duke of Bucclouck was on duty at tho Palace. The King conferred a baronetcy upon James Steel, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

In the Houso of Commons Mr Chamberlain stated that all recent interruptions in the Pacific cable occurred on the land line between Bamfield and Vancouver. Tho Clyde engineers are resuming work.

Six tribes, numbering twelve thousand, are attacking Tetuan. The suburbs are ablaze. The famous orange gardens have been destroyed. The British consul and all British subjects have left, and tho town is almost deserted. The Sultan is sending three thousand reinforcements.

The House of Commons agreed to the lid income tax. The British Government has invited Marconi to attend the International Telegraph Conference, to bo held in London. Brussels, May 13.

Countess Louyay is suing King Leopold for seventeen million francs, her share of the late Queen Mario’s property. King Leopold offers her six hundred thousand. Berlin, May 13.

German opinion regards President Roosevelt’s Watsonville speech as an alarming development of Monroeism. The newspapers do net anticipate that America’s preponderance in the Pacific will be soon realised, and suggest that President Roosevelt is trying to arouse enthusiasm in regard to the navy, and is indulging in presidential electioneering. St. Petersburg, May 13.

Admiral Alexiefl has informed M. Plaucon that a majority of the Russian troops have evacuated Mukden Province.