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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1227, 16 December 1882, Page 2

An attrocious attempt to murder, almost unprecedented in the annals of Austrian crime, has occurred at Vienna. A young clerk in a merchant’s office had kept company for some time with a shop girl, who was at last disgusted with his jealous conduct. She, therefore, resolved to put an end to the engagement, and went to some friends at the Central Cemetery, where the young man followed her. Meeting with a cool reception, he fired at her three times with a revolver, but the weapon fortunately missed fire. The girl’s screams brought to her assistance a policeman, who, while struggling with the aggressor, received a bullet in the abdomen, and was seriously wounded. The occurrence having taken place in the graveyard, it has caused great sensation in Vienna.

The correspondent of the “Cologne Gazette ”in Egypt makes some very serious charges against our troops in Egypt. In a long and circumstantial letter, dated Cairo, September 22, he formally accuses the captors of Tel-el-Kebir of having ruthlessly shot, massacred, and robbed the wounded Egyptians who were found helplessly lying behind the parapets which they had been unable to defend. Two of his informants, he says, were a correspondent of the Stockholm “Dagblad,” and an Auttrian colonel named Thurneisen, and two other persons told him the same story, but begged him, for fear of jeopardizing their livelihood by conflict with the English, to withhold their names. He adds: “By none of the numerous English officers with whom I have spoken on the subject has the killing of the wounded been contradicted. Many admitted it, saying, however, that they could do nothing to prevent it. Colonel Metheun, to whom I spoke yesterday at head-quarters, admitted it, but strove to tone it down, and frowned when 1 spoke of ‘ murder.’ He remarked that the soldiers could not ask every wounded man whether he would perhaps fire at a better opportunity. The soldiers were carried away by the heat of the fight, and spared nobody. This explanation is only partly correct, for only a small portion of the wounded, judging from what I have heard, were killed in the heat of battle, the greater part being murdered long afterwards by plundering English soldiers.” The same correspondent tells several stories of plunder by the British soldiers. “The Times” correspondent at Berlin, who has previously called attention to the character of the letters published in the “ Colonge Gazette,” says :—“The confi-dently-urged charges of this writer are all the more surprising as most of the evidence he adduces in support of them is of a secondhand nature, and as he was also informed by a high British officer whose attention he drew to the subject, that only those Egyptians had been despatched who had feigned death and fired at the backs of their advancing conquerors. The matter is serious enough, however, to merit strict investigation, and inquiry will show whether the moral indignation indulged in by a writer who has shown a decidedly envious and carping spirit in most of his descriptions of the campaign in Egypt, ought not rather to be turned against himself, either for not having sufficiently sifted out the truth, or for having wilfully perverted it.”

A new dock has been commenced at Sebastopol, it will be three years in the course of construction, and is to cost 30,000,000 roubles.