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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 October 1911, Page 3

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FROM THE LAND OF UXCT/E SAM. !»Y KLBCTRIC TKLEGRAPn--CO?Yni»HT.j I Jl'»R FREBS ABBOr.iATION.-3 (Received This .Day, 11.35 a.m.) .NEW YORK, October 20. A gang of desperadoes raided Colorado town. Kokedale, and terrorised tlio residents, using Smarms and bounding several people. They "potted" the country Attorney, who barricaded himself in h;is office, j The gang finally departed, and a po-\se has been organised to hunt them down. At Hi hernia, New Jei'soy, a blast ; destroyed the partition 'between two shafts in the iron mines of the [ AYharton Steel Company. Water flooded the workings, and twelve men were drowned. The victims were mostly foreigners. -Sixty men were overwhelmed, hut- all escaped save those unable io make their way out of the flooded gallery. ITALY'S WAH. THHKISI-L 'IROOI'S STmnORN R ESI STANCE. HOME. Ociobe i'2o. The Italian:; bombarded Horns (on the Tripoli coast), destroying the barracks 'before the Turks raised the white flag. The Italians landed at Rengha/.i, and although meeting with .strenuous opposition, they captured tlio barracks by assault, after the licet had twice bombarded the town. 'I he opposition was due to the natives resenting the ftali.au occupation and slopping the slave traffic, which was largely eenlred in ■ Benghazi.

Father head of the Benghazi mission, states that young negroes wore forced into slavery. Arabs conducted the trade from Wndai. in the Sudan, with the contrivance of tin 1 authorities. He further states that the Sultan of Wadfli was the greatest dealer, nnd made armed expedition*. Children in slave caravans were packed in two's and three's in b a !/•=•■. while adults were chained together. Shocking cruelties are alleged.

I RTUTfSH I'HOT EST TO ITALY, j LOXDOX, October 20. ! Ihe Daily Graphic states that Sir ; Edward Grey (Secretary for Foreign ; Affairs), has protested against lti aly's proposal to bloeade two hunidred miles of the Egyptian .sea board. .-Ancient controversy as to i Egypt's sea boundary lias eonse- ! (|iient.lv been revived. CONSTANTI NOI'L-K. October 20. I The Porto li.is officially notified | the Powers that contact mines have j been .set ;it Salomca ;ind Smyrna. ! TKIMMMI.I-; TRAMWAY ACOL j DEXT. j LONDON, October 20. A _ iramcar at Mossley j (Lancashire; got out of control on jan incline, an:] ,-omoisau'tcd over a j bridge forty feet high. Five per- [ voiis wore killed and fourteen nj j ured. The conductor's legs were ; torn ofi and 11 driver's limbs broi ken. | SF.YFRE I! KfU'K E. I FOR M.P. FOR OXFORD fXI- | YERSITY. | _ LOXDOX, October 20. i 'the Oxford Magazine, recalling j th'e circumstances' of Lard Hugh j Cecil's election, severely cencures Jhim for forgetting that Fniversity .members :ne delegates rather than j representatives, and for parti'-'pat-ing in an unexampled scene of row- ! diness and indole nee towards the | Premier. LABOUR CO-PA RTX ICRS. LOXDOX". October 20. Lord Courtney, the'.'Right Hon. T. | Hurt, Labour M.P., Mr Fenwick, M.P., Mr .H. Lever. and Mr Benjamin Brown have issued a pronouncement on liohalf of a. Labour Co-pa rtuershi]. Association, urging great employers and trusted Labour Leaders:- to consider whether copartnership Mould not. largely solve the ind'iislrial problem. A DEATH. LOXDOX. October 20. Advices Iroin Georgetown. British Guinea, state tint 'the diary of Mr Da vies, the American Missionary, who was supposed to have been poisoned for preaching against polvgamy, shows that he died from fever, and the aboriginals have been cleared o[ all suspicion. ATSTRALfAX LABOUR

TROUBLES. " SYDNEY, : . Tlio wluiri labourers are not 11 jusniinons in their desire to continue the strike. A meeting Inst night, with the- object of appointing pickets. broke up in disorder, without •' ).v dcJiiiile action. The only work (I'jno on Interstate wharf is tlie loading of small (jiianritics of perishable live stock by sailors and consignees. MLLROI RXE, This Day. A inceting of the Steamship Owncs' Fedc;viioii .!us decided to ref.iso cargo for Sydney until the ■ trike is settled.

POIUTiT. This Dav, .Mount Lvell engine drivers have ignored fi':. l Miners' Pim/ris demand that t!i:'y (rase work. Shnpkeepers arc 1 seriously considering the rjno:: n ol '.in extended credit.