GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1018, 15 July 1911, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

“ A TACTICAL BLUNDER.” GERMANS’ NAVAL AGITATION. BERLIN, June 30. The agitation of the Navy League for the construction of more large cruisers as against the supposed intention of the Goernment to let the construction of capital ships fall after this year from four to two annually is regarded in dominant political quarters us a tactical blunder. Herr Erzberger, the free-lance of the Centro party, attacks the League for preparing fresh international trouble, and calls upon Admiral von Tirpitz, Secretary of the Navy, to dissociate himself from the action of the League. KING ALFONSO. A SERIOUS OPERATION. LONDON. June 29. The Madrid correspondent of (ho Evening Times declares that the condition of King Alfonso is graver than line hitherto been admitted. Another operation, for the removal of a diseased bono from the King’s head, has become imperative, but there is a general fear that the result will bo serious. GREECE’S NEW CONSTITUTION. ATHENS, Juno 30. The task of revising the existing scheme of Government has been completed, and the new Constitution, the outcome of the military revolution of 1908, has been adopted in its entirety by the Chamber of Deputies. The charges will curtail the most harmful influences, both judicial and administrative. The reforms to be introduced will also ensure the efficiency of the army and the navy, and by the establishment of a Council of State will regulate the working of constitutional institutions. It is claimed that this remarkable work just completed opens for Greece the path towards regeneration. LAURIER AND RECIPROCITY. LONDON, June 30. The Birmingham Post understands that

Sir Wilfrid Laurior is convinced that ho would command, in tho Canadian Commons, a majority in favour of reciprocity, but that in tho face of tho pronounced feelings expressed in tho Dominion ho does not desire to put, upon his party’s shoulders the responsibility of passing tlio agreement without appealing to the people. CHICAGO MAN’S OFFER. TO SAVE INNOCENT WOMAN’S LIFE. OTTAWA, Juno 27. Tho case of a young Italian woman, Angorino Napolitano, who is under sentence of death in Ontario for having killed her husband, has arourod widespread attention. So impressed withth-' woman’s innocence is Patrick Fallon, a man in Chicago, that he as written io tho GovernorGeneral offering to die on the scaffold to prevent tho Dominion from making a cruel mistake. About a dozen women’s c’lbs are appealing to tho Government to pardon tho condemned woman. JAPANESE EXPANSION. IN HAWAII AND THE PHILIPPINES. WASHINGTON, June 28. . The array officers who have been investigating Japan’s policy of expansion have submitted their report. They state that 79,000 Japanese have been settled in Hawaii, and that the number is increasing, but that ln d* l ® Philippines there are not more than SUUU. Reports show that tho coffee industry has passed entirely from American to Japanese, and it is predicted that the latter will before long control tho sugar plantations.