Various Cabled Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3540, 29 June 1905, Page 2

Various Cabled Items.

GERMAN WEST AFRICA. Capetown, June 2 fi

News has been received that th; chief Morenga defeated 1 'apt li 1 Siebert at Ames Karas mountains, in South-west Africa, with heavy 1 iss, capturing all the ammunition supp ies.

A MARINE COLLISION. Copenhagen, June 26,

The British steamer Ancona rammed the Danish training ship Georgs'.age offKastrup. The Georgstage sank ia two minutes drowning 22 cadet . Fifty-seven were rescued.

MISDIRECTED MANOEUVRES Paris, June 26,

Two squadrons of Dragoons and Cuirassiers manoeuvring at the Valbourne camp near Lyons, collided, and two Dragon officers were kille 1 and 20 Dragoons injured. Twenty horses were killed. FRANCE AND GERMANY.

Berlin, June 27.

The Kaiser recently impressed the representatives of the great powers that althought Germany kept a powerful army always ready, its mission was essentially peaceful, since Germany would never initiate aggression in Europe unless compelled by the weight of circumstances.

Paris, June 27.

France fearing a sudden Germa 1 attack through Belgium, urges the overhauling of the forifications on the Meuse and at Antwerp. MURDERS BY BLACKS. Perth, June 18.

Later reports show that most of the victims of the murders by blacks we e swagmen or men with pack-horses. They were killed m the vicinity of th •. gold-fields and the Ashburton river by being speared or tomahawked. Som s were murdered while asleep and the bodies mutilated. It is believed tin t in more than one instance they we;n cut up and eaten. The ringleader; have been arrested.