YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2152, 7 August 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright LONDON, August 5. Official telegrams, froiii 'Tohornn report- that 1 lie Turks, with artillery, entered Persia, and destroyed the village ot Mavuuoh. nernl Urutuia, killing 18; men and CO women and children, mostly Christine:. and seizing a smalt camp, expelling the Persians. Mr. Ramsay 'JiTacdonald read a paper before the Economic section (if the British Acsoehition at Leicester upon labor legislation in Australasia. ' The British' etu:sev* Antrim has sailed from Gibraltar for Casablanca. ANTWERP. August 5.

The ducket- at a critical moment struck and obtained an increase oi lOd a day. This has since been withdrawn, and the employers are importing 1200 British dockers as a precaution against a similar situation.

CONSTANTINOPLE, August 5. Colonel Elliot, reported wounded at Gurodujuk, was actually captured by Miss Stone’s kidnappers of 1901. Tlioy were preparing to remove him to the mountains when the timely operations of Turkish troops enabled him to esenpo. ATHENS, August 5. Tho Government, replying to the Porte’s remonstrance, stated that officers leading the Greek bands in Macedonia should bo severely punished, hut their presence was mainly duo to tho fact that Bulgarians murdered sixty Greeks at Salonika and Monastic in May.

BERLIN, August 5. It is semi-officially announced bore that tho Kisser’B and Czar’s visits are purely of personal significance. Prince Billow’s organ declares that neither secret treaties nor surprises of any kind will result from the visit. THE HAGUE, August 5 The Committee of Examination decided by a majority , which included Britain, the United Sates, Italy, and Japan; against the rights of belligerents to convert merchantmen into warships on the open seas. The minority included Russia, Franco, and Germany. NEW YORK, August 5. Enraged by fresh attacks upon girls, New York mobs are almost- running amok assailing supposed culprits. The police rescued two innocent men, one of whom was about to be hanged. Another’s skull was fractured. Detectives in plain clothes are now making concentrated efforts to track the criminals. PARIS, August 5.

The Angers-Portors train was derailed while crossing tho river Loire near Ponidece. The locomotive, luggage van, and a third-class carriage with forty passengers, fell into the river. Seventeen bodies were recovered, and it is feared many more have perished. The derailment of a train at Ponidence was due to a portion of the Eron bridge sinking and bonding the flails. The victims are estimated to number thirty. MOROCCO, August 5.

A threat by the commander of the French cruiser Gnllileo to bombard has induced the Casablanca, authorities to permit 200 Europeans and Jews to leave. The tribemen, when prevented from attacking the refugees, in revenge desecrated the Christian cemetary, burning the corpses. Tho Sultan’s troops heavily defeated the Hackmass tribe, taking many prisoners. The defeat has improved the prospect of Kaid Maclean's release. The Europeans massacred at Casablanca were stripped naked and disembowelled. Their skulls were smashed. Some of the bodies, were half-burned and others dragged about the town.

SYDNEY, August 6. The question of professionalism is disturbing football circles. Its supporters claim that professionalism has come to. stay, and attributed its introduction to the niggardly policy of the present football bodies. Its opponents are strongly of the opinion that professionalism will ruin the sport. ADELAIDE, August 6. At la crosse Canada defeated South Australia by 10 points to 3. The ground was very wet. MELBOURNE, August 6. The Government statistician estimates the area sown in wheat will be 1,953,000 acres, against 2,263,200 last season., while the oat acreage will be increased by over 173,000 acres. Boomerang is nominal favourite for the Caulfield Steeplechase, Dog of War, Swimmer, and Birsdale following. PERTH, August 6. Heavy floods # have occured in Moora district. A largo area of crops is inundated. A quantity of stock has been drowned. Two families refuged on an island until assistance was sent them.