CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 24 September 1896, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The Times' Constantinople correspondent wire 3 that there is every promise of the situation improving. The French Statute of Limitation prohibits the extradition of Tjnan. Foreign. The Forte has adopted the proposals of M. Tchikhatcheff, Russian Minister of Marine, to strengthen the defences of the Straits of the ~ Dardanelles, and it is believed here that if the British war vessels enter, the Sultan will invoke the aid of Russia. The Black Sea fleet and troops in Southern Russia have been placed on a war footing, and the fleet ii under orders to proceed to the Bobpboms direct if the Russian Ambassador in Constantinople telegraph*. Greek and English families are leaving Constantinople. ...' The Kurds have muttered 600 Armenians at Khtrpat, •« town in the Diarbekr Province of Asia Mmn t, situated on the eastern branch of the Euphrates, which has already been the scene of atrocities. No bar Pasha has sent £400 for the distressed Armenians in the capital. Three thousand miners on strike, armed with guns and dynamite, attacked those working in two of the silver mines in Leadsville, Colorado. Five were killed and many injured, while gr^at damage war done to property. Tynan has appealed to Mr J. B. Ewas, American Ambassador, to pi'evc-nt his extradition, and declares that if successful the latter will re> odvo the thanks of millions of Irishmen. Mi- Eustia has notified the French Gowramtnt that Tynan is an American subject. Tha majority of the French newspapers regard it as impossible that ;he man can be extradited.