Beyond The Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 186, 30 August 1909, Page 4

Beyond The Dominion

SULTAN MULAI HAFID. London, August 25. The British Consul at Fez has protested against the cruelties inflicted in Fez upon the captured followers of the pretender to the throne by the hew Sultan, Mulai Hafid. The "Standard's" correspondent reports that Mulai Hafid ordered the right hand of each man and woman to be cut off, and the stumps plunged in boiling pitch. Two important prisoners were ordered to lose their right hands and right feet, and had their teeth drawn. Another correspondent declares that one prisoner was ordered to have bis lower jaw shattered by a blow from a hammer, another his eyes gouged out, a third the palm of his hand slashed, and then salted and sewn up in a father glove.

CONQUEST OF THE AIR. London, August 25. Mr Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, interviewed in London, thought the experiments at JRheims were a great triumph for the Americans. The Wright machine was the most -sure, and dependable of all. With others there was always a half-nervous apprehension that they might descend at any moment. He added: "How I wish we were doing more towards this work, which may alter the history of the world." AMERICAN RACE RIOTS. New York, August 25. Troops are hurrying to Monroe, in Louisiana, where serious racial troubles have occurred. The whites lynched two negroes, and one of the kinsmen of the murdered blacks ran amok with a shot gun. He fired at everybody who came within range, wounding twenty-three whites before the police killed him. The mob seized the body and burned it in the public square. The negroes in the neighbourhood are arming. EARTHQUAKES IN ITALY. Rome, August 25. A series of earthquake shocks was experienced in the Siena district, South of Florence, yesterday. The shocks were severe and several people were killed by falling buildings, while many were injured. A number of houses and convents collapsed. IRELAND'S ADMINISTRATION. London, August 25. In the House of Commons, Mr J. H. Whitley, Junior Lord of the Treasury, estimated that Ireland's contribution to the revenue of the United Kingdom for the current year was insufficient to meet the cost of purely Irish services by upwards of a million sterling. FLOODS IN VICTORIA. London, August 25. Maharaj-Kumar Sir Prodyot Coomar Tagore, hon. secretary of the British Indian Association,' has telegraphed from Calcutta to Captain Collins, Federal representative in London, his sympathy with the sufferers by the Victorian floods. He offers to raise a subscription if it would be acceptable. SOUTH AFRICAN FOOTBALLERS. Capetown, August 26. The South African Rugby Board has decided to accept invitations for tours of New Zealand and New South Wales in 1910. It was resolved to ask the English Rugby Union to reconsider its decision not to send a team to South Africa next season. AMERICA'S TRADE. London, August 26. The New York correspondent of the "Times", Mr G. W. Smalley, reports that a general trade revival is evident in the United States. The postal receipts show that business has improved in every part of the country. EXPORT OF GRAIN. Ottawa, August 26. Mr Hill, president of the Great Northern Railway of Canada, speaking at the luncheon tendered to the Science Congress today, said that by 1915 the United States would cease to be a grain producing country. THE VANISHED WARATAH. London, August 26. The Lund liner Commonwealth has arrived at Durban from Australia, and reported having found no trace of the Waratah, now over a month overdue at Capetown. The steamer Karoola has sailed, and taking a zigzag course in search of the missing liner. There is less business doing in connection with the Waratah, but reinsurances could be effected yesterday at 90 guineas per cent.