Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 24 December 1891, Page 2

Foreign.

Zanzibar will be d« glared a free port in February. The Herald states that the American.naval authorities are preparing to transport an army of 15,000 men to Chili in case of necessity. 1 The American navy is secretly I massing in tho South Pacific. •; Tli3 Chilian Government has settled the chains made by the German and Swedish resident? for compensation for losses sustained during the late revolution. A revolt has broken out in E-spirttn Santo, a province on tho Atlantic, south of Bahia, ard the situation in Eahia also is critical.

'!he rebels in Espiritu, Sank | -,] Province, have deposed the Vice-Go-vernor and surrounded the capital. j [ The Secretary of State has assured I v General Montt, President- of Chili that he i 3 confident that an amicabl ; -] settlement of the diffieu ty will U t made, after a complete enquiry inU ; the disturbance. j The Tribune confirms the state- I . ment that the United States Navy i; ! preparing for war. i j The refugees from Khartoum state ■ 3 that for nine years they were it I . ignorance of the events of tha world. •> Khartoum, they say, is in ruins, anu , a smail force could easily capture the ■ 1 Soudan. <