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Manawatu Herald, 27 October 1892, Page 2

Foreign.

Despatches from Dahomey state that Colonel Dodds is preparing to. again engage the Dahomeyans in battle. The French troops are 2000 strong, while the Dahonieyans number 6000, including the Khjg's body guard A railway bridge near Evan sville, in Indiania, was set on fire in order to wreck tb train by which a number of Republican negroes, who were to attend a ineetiug in the city, were travelling. Fortunately the engine driver was warned in time, and he managed to atop the train just before it reached the burning bridge. During the Columbus celebrations at Los Angelos, in California, a quantity of fireworks accidently exploded, killing three persons and fatally injuring nine others. The Svet claims the Hindoo Ivoosh as the Russian frontier in Asia, and asserts that Russia is quite able to settle the Pamir dispute without reference to England. The insanity of the captain of the Russian warship Zabraka, who seized the Canadian sealers off Copper Island, has been confirmed. The American vessels were seized under similar circumstances, but were restored and the mistake admitted.

An impression is held in the United States that there is a secret understanding between Eussia and Japan respecting the treatment of sealers in Behring Sea.

Advices from China state that the river Hoang Ho has broken its bank 3, and 50,000 people have been drowned,

It is feared that the disaster will result in famine, and that quite 1 ,000,000 people will die of starvation.

The Chins in "Burmah are destroying the roads for the purpose of obstructing the advance of the British reinforcements.

'l he. floods in Sardinia continue, and five villages in the vicinity of Sanapereti are submerged. Several hundred people have been drowned, and thousands of sheep and cattle lost.

Six thousand people have been rendered homeless by the Sardinian floods The survivors describe the shrieks of the victims as something terrible Large tracts of fertile country have, been converted into lakes.