Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 21 March 1895, Page 2

Foreign.

A baud of three hundred subalterns attacked and completely wrecked two newspaper offices in Madrid because of hostile comments that had appeared in the columns of the papers with reference to the army. The members of the staffs of both papers were also severely maletreated. As the outcome of the military officers' riots, the principal feature of which was the attack on two newspaper offices, the Spanish Cabinet has resigned. In Congress, the Minister of W a

spoke iii pailatioii of the Aotioti of the military* whereupon the tfwSß representatives left the gallery in\ik body as a protest agaiiist the MittiS- '■ teFs attitude. , . . Subsequently the editors, of the local papers interviewed MiiJistert on the subject; arid threatened tUtt they would nbt hot publish i singMh paper unless they were guaranteed that a repetition of the conduct of the military would not be permitted by the Government. fhe ftgdro reports that Jn UM course df ari interview Lord Croitteri British representative in Egypt, d«« clared that anarchy was certain W follow the evacuation of the country by the British, and that it was in* possible even to consider such a stejk at present. He added that the atti* tttde of France in encouraging tur? bulence in the country only served to prolong the term of Biitwh oMtt* Ration"* The King of Swaziland, having. submitted to Transvaal rule, hw, been proclaimed paramount chief bt the President of the Republic. ./ The Spanish troops suppressed A rising anlodg the natives of Mind** tiaoi olie of the Philippine IslatidsV but with the loss of 200 men killeg * and wounded. M. Ribof s new scheme of social H reform includes the reorganisation of the labour unions on non political lines, mutual assurance, pension* for the aged, and the abolition of &• : tax on the transfer of land. \ ; Of the 267 men entombed by ta« colliery explosion at Troppan, 910 haVe been Rescued, but all hope of saving the remainder has been given up. The Indian border tribes are able to raise a force of 20,000 fighting men to assist Uinra Khan, the ruler of Jandol, in his invasion of Chitral in support of Amiral-Mulk, thesew Mehtar, who has been ordered by the British to leave the country. Urara Shan can raise a similar number of men, and serious trouble is feared. ' Twenty five prominent members of the New York police have been indicted on charges of corruption. The Salta officials defy the National Government, and refute to allow Jabez Balfour to be extradited till the local suit has been decided. The Prussian Diet has voted two and a half millions for the construction of light railways. ■ - During the discussion on the proposal, it was stated that these lines would not pay immediately, but the outlay on their construction was necessary in order to assist the farmers.