Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 27 December 1894, Page 2

Foreign.

Sir William Lockhardt, who com* mands the punitive expedition against the "Waziris, is advancing rapidly and dispersing the natives. ' The position of Signor Crispi, the Premier, is now much stronger, as further forged documents have been discovered.

He retains the fall confidenoe of King Humbert. Cardinal! Satolli, the Papal dele- j gate in America, has published an * 4< edict of the Pope under which Roman Catholic members of the Oddfellows, Knights of Pythias and Sons of Temperance are placed under the ban. The case against Captain Drefus, : of the French Artillery staff, who was arrested on a charge of selling secret military plans to foreign spies,,,.. rests on a document; stolen froift tfif ' ! German Embassy. • ; -.: The German Minister threatened to leave Paris if the document wai ,'. ' used, hence the trial is being con* ducted privately. : The Court has sentenced a (jteis ■ man lieutenant to five years on ft - charge of espionage. Drefua has been sentenced to In- I carceration for life in some fortified : place, and ordered to pay the costl of the prosecution. •. The Czar explains that the eon* : struction of the Siberian Railway It - purely in the interest of peace and civilisation, and that he hopes to „■ have it cheaply and rapidly com* pietcd. A nursegirl at Nijni Novgorod has confessed to the murder of 17 children, who were entrusted to her care.