Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1892, Page 2

Foreign.

The Ameer's troops who were despatched against the rebellious Hazaras mutinied. The position of Afghanistan is critical. Two British mail carriers have been shot at Gomel. Professor Armenius Vambery, the Eastern authority, considers the rebellion a serious matter. He believes it to be due to Russian intrigue, and is confident that the Ameer must eventually appeal to England for assistance. The Sultan's troops are reluctant to attack the Morocco rebels who are threatening Tangier.

Frick, Lovejoy and Potter, Mr Carnegie's managers, and five of Pinkerton's pifficers, are charged with murdering workmen during the recent riots At the inquest upon the victims of the Pittsburg riot the, jury found that the itrikefs wera killed while in an unlawful assembly, and did.notaitempfc-'to fix %he blame on anyone individually. A severe earthquake has been experienced in Chiapa, a State in the south-east of Mexico, and San Cristobal, the capital, has been destroyed. A serious affair is reported as having occurred at Somatash, in the Pamirs]; *>m? jjhe 4sDund4iSjft |me betw.eeri '- Afghanistan- SMtt Some Afghan troops came into collision with 80 Bussian soldiers belonging to one of the parties now .in tha f district. The Afghans killed five of them, and captured 16, whom they hold as prisoners, and refuse to release. .; <i ,- ■• ;\ • ■• .■ r >....;■ „, Th« Bussians. vow ihat in' future they will neither give nor take quarter. ; • is reported . that among the Huzara rebels who have been captured are five Russians, who have been sent in chains to Cabul. The Viceroy proposes to sand the Commander-i4-Chjef,! I^ord p^berts, to Jellalabad, to meet the Ameer of Afghanistan with a, strong The Sultan of 1 Morocco desires 4 to resume negotiations, . with, Sjr, ; C. Euan Smith' after Mr Gladstone' has assumed office. . .