CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7913, 21 September 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(Per Press Association).' (By Electric Telegrajph-Copyright). BT. PETErlßßOti(_, September 20. The Russian newspapers comment on the Thibetan treaty with illwill and sarcasm. Some predict trouble;

1 _. • • ■ LONDON, Sept. 20. -.King Edward . will < attend: Captain Scott's lecture at Albert Hall m November on the work of the Discovery. The Globe states that Mr Balfour and Lord Lansdowne have initiated a'diplomatic action to prevent a secret understanding between Germany and Eussia ■so developing as to necessitate the enforcement of the Anglo-Japanese treaty. It is naturally a-business of the greatest delicacy and difficulty, but it has only been undertaken as the most urgent necessity. Germany, to all intents, is aider and abettor to the Russian endeavour to cru.h Japan and annex Manchuria.

. NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Dowie describes himself as the Divmeiwoainiissioneci Hiji Priest on E&rth and First Apostle of the Christian Catholic .Churches «vnh power to appoint other A^osi,!es, hear confessions, and forgive sins. He wore a richly.je welled mitre which he described as of the pattern given by God to Moses, and added that he wished to make Zion the Mecca of the Christian World