Foreign

Manawatu Herald, 5 October 1895, Page 2

Foreign

.Gwetnors * of' 11 ~Anierican States advocate recognition of the Cuban rebels, and some advise an negation of the inland. ■, The leaders of the outrages in Swatow have been arrested, but only since the arrival of the German cruiser. I

The French demand .reparation for the recent attack on the French missionaries at Cheug-tu. France has received full satisfaction i-Ji' the attack on the French mission station at Cheng-tu, and the assault on the J^ np a 6 gg^-j^; The Russian oo*grßmeiit has fMtJefl to nia«B 90,666 troops at Viadivo^tock before the spring. . The Armenia^ ib the Turkish capital attempted to -larch to the Grand Vizier's office:.- to present a petition. The Patriarch tried to dissuade them without avail, and the Armenians sboutitig ''Liberty or death J" persisted in their march. ; : 'JL'bejr? advance was resisted by the ofiisjials, and a stubborn fight followed. Major Shervet B^y, aide de-camp to the Minister of Police, andseteral guard* who tried to bar their way. were shot. In the fray that followed 150 were killed or wounded, .principally Armenians Five hundred arrests have been made. I * is reported to be in a Btatio tif panic; ' It w ;js : allied that the Turkish troopp slaughtered a number of the wounded in-fcold b'ood, also that the Armenians 'killed two Judges in' the Lav/. Court.