Cable News.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 97, 25 April 1916, Page 6

Cable News.

A DUTCH LINER SUNK. BOUND FOR HOLLAND WITH SALTPETRE. FIVE OF THE CREW DROWNED. (Reed. 9.55 a.in.) AMSTERDAM, April 21. The Dutch liner Lodewyk Van Nassau, laden with saltpetre, bound for Holland, was sunk in six minutes. Five of the crew were drowned. A British steamer, rescued the survivors. BOPP’S PLOTS. INTERESTING REVELATIONS. SAN FRANCISCO, April 20. Investigations here so far have not disclosed the connection of the German Consul' Bopp with the plot to incite a rebellion in India, as revealed by II arrest of Germans, Hindus, Turks, and others on the American steamship Chinn. Two American vessels, th Mavrick and the Annie Larsen, laden with guns and portions of submarines, cleared hc're for an Indian destination, with the object of stirring up a rebellion, but one was interned at Batavia and the other was seized by the American officials before she quitted American waters. The proofs of Bopp’s connection with these activities are now in American hands. Two Hindu revolutionaries who were taken off th r Mavrick wer e sentenced by the British authorities at Shanghai for inciting a revolution.

SHIPPING FREIGHTS. STEAMER COMPANY'S REQUEST. * THREAT OF STATE CONTROL. MELBOURNE, April 21. The Federal Treasury declined the Adelaide Shipping Company's request of an increase of 4/ per ton for shipping the sugar crop, which is now controlled by the Federal Government. They informed the manager the company must reconcile itself, or the steamers would be placed under t>ho control of the Federal authorities unless the offer of an advance of 1/ per ton was accepted. THE CLAN MACTAVISH. STILL ANOTHER ACCOUNT. (Reed. 8.30 a.m.). SYDNEY, this day. Letters from a Sydneyite aboard the steamer Clan Mactavish, gives interesting details of the fight with the Moewe, jind; the?. subsjequentj Jmoveh ments of the raider. [When the Moewe ordered the Clan Mactavish to stop, the Captain replied: "We are stopped." Simultaneously the Captain ordered the engine room to "open out to the full extent." The,Germans discovering a ruse opened fire and three shells struck the Clan, and the fourth passed through the engine room completely disabling the ship. The captain ordered his men to cease firing, but the gunners unaware that the Clan had surrendered fired the fifth shot which struck the boat deck and killed 15 coolies.

They found 250 other prisoners from various captured ships aboard the Moewe. In the run across to the American coast they captured the sailer Edinburgh. The Moewe coaled from the captured steamer Cowbridge, which was then sunk with 3000 tons of ccal aboard. Afterwards they captured the steamers Luxembourg, Flamenco, Westburn and Horace. Most of the crews of the captured vessels were transferred to the Westburn, which proceeded to Tenerilfe and landed the prisoners. GREEKS BEING MASSACRED. TURKO-BULGARIANS AT WORK, SALOMKA, April ,20. It is reported that the Turko-Bul-garians massacred four hundred Greeks at Adrianople and Demotica, The Turks at Smyrna massacred two hundred Greeks, and a similar murderous outbreak at Constantinople is reported.

NEW ZEALAND WOUNDED. INQUIRY IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. LONDON, April 20. Mr. Cathcart Wason, in the House of Commons, asked whether New Zealanders who may be wounded on the West front must be sent to Egypt, and if s o, whether the Government would reconsider the matter, in o view of the ample accommodation in the hospitals of the London distiict. There were many objections to Egypt, including the heat, the flies, dysentery and the infected soil. Mr. Tennant replied that he appreciated the point raised. The whole matter was under consideration.