Foreign.
The Sultan has promised -to grant an Armenian amnesty. Saadeddin has been recalled.
The Porte has banished 800 Turks and many officials from Stamboul The Chamber of Deputies has rejected the proposals of M. Lookrey for a large vote of money for naval purposes. M. Meline, the Premier, promised to re-introdace the measure early in. 1897. M. Bernard, Minister of Marine, said the present; estimates, amounting to 72 million francs, provided for new warships, beginning with an ironclad and two cruisers, and the Government were maturing a soheme for the increase of the navy. News has been received that the Italian authorities have executed five Somalis for participation in the recent massacre of Signor Cecchi, the. Italian Consul in Zanzibar, and others. The Porte professes that to grant an amnesty to 9000 Armenian prisoners would provoke a Mussulman I rising. Four thousand navvies have been employed on the Panama Canal. The Portuguese have apologised to Germany for the affront offered to the German flag in Delagoa Bay.
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Manawatu Herald, 19 December 1896, Page 2
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168Foreign. Manawatu Herald, 19 December 1896, Page 2
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