British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 July 1913, Page 3

British and Foreign

(.BT ELECTHIC TEIiEORAPH-COPrRIGaiJ LPHR TRMB ABSOCIATI62 ' (Keeoived This Day 11.10 a.m.) BOOSEVELT SCENTS BATTLE. New York, July 30. Coventor Colquit, of Texas, asserts that he is in possession of reliable information I hat Mr Boosevelt is organising four regiments of cavalry witji the object of invading Mexico if war breaks out with the Tinted States. The Governor declares that the Stale department has been fully informed of ex-Pre-sident Roosevelt's action. 11.M.5. NE"W ZEALAND. Vancouver, July 30. The Minora Pacing Club entertained the officers of the New Zealand at a luncheon on the racecourse. Captain Halsey acknowledged the courtesy. The sailors toured the city and suburbs in automobiles. TROUBLE ON THE BAND. Johannesburg, July 29. The Government arc considering a scheme whereby the railwaymen forthwith will be asked to sign on for two years' service, accepting the Government's recent oll'er as a basis of the settlement of grievances. Those refusing to sign will be asked to resign. It is calculated that at least seventy per cent, will agree. Viscount Gladstone's despatches declared (hat the course of events after June 30, the date of the riot, showed the strike leaders' counsels wei'e set aside and the strike v.*s rushed. There was no orderly organisation or cessation from work. The Native altitude, he says, was fulKif peril. If reduced lo idleness in massed compounds they would be brought to starvadon by Hie railway stoppage. It was only too probable they would have broken loose and the horror of tin.' situation can hardly lie exaggeraici]. _ "Kvcry kraal in South Africa," adds the Governor-Gen-eral, "would hear of the while man's impotence." The strike committee lias issued a circular inviting the strikers to come armed to the Benoni meeting. was accumulating that the strikers intended io ustexplosives. Very little check was used over explosives at the mines and any miner was able to appropriate dynamite with slight chance of detection. The military was separated into sixty-two detachments along Jifty miles of reef, and only six detachments had fired. It would have been impossible for the Union Government to have dealt with the situation with its own police. Viscount Gladstone added that he intends formally to call the Ministers' attention lo the lessons of the recent events and is sure (hey will realise that the Imperial Iroops are not retained in South Africa to do work which they have performed since June 30.