CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 379, 30 April 1908, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

London, April 28. The scout ship Attentive rammed and destroyed the Gala in the night manoeuvres off the Kentish coast. The Gala was cut in halves and sank. Engineer Lieutenant Drought was killed in his berth. Fifteen destroyers accompanied the Attentive which struck the Gala abaft the engine room. The fore part sank and the after part with the crew was towed into shallow water. A destroyer then went in and rescued them. The destroyer Riddle was also damaged and returned to Sheerness. [The Gala was a torpedo boat destroyer of 590 tons and 25 knots. She was built in 1895. The Attentive is a vessel of 2940 tons and was built in 1904.] London, April 28.

The Daily Express declares the enlistment of a territorial army is a failure. Instead of 75 per cent, of the volunteers and 90 per cent, of the Imperial Yeomanry enlisting. only 30 per cent, have done so. Very few yeomen have enlisted. New York, April 28. President Roosevelt in a message to Congress urges in the strongest terms legislation limiting the use of the injunction in the case of labour disputes, and also suggests legislation increasing the National Government to regulate the inter-state business of the great corporations. He protests against the growth of class consciousness, declaring the abuse of the process of injunctions by employers must breed class consciousness and therefore class resentment. While condemning the demagogue who preaches envy of wealth, President Roosevelt caustically remarks “His counterpart is the hard cruel muUi-millionaiie who is the least enviable and the least admirable of citizens, and whose sou is a fool and his daughter a foreign princess,”