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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42775, 7 September 1905, Page 2

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* ri ; Brussels, Yesterday. The Cunferouce of the BritishBelgian Association's Chamber of C .mmerc > being held at Liege protested against the proposal of a select committee for Cape Colony t» largely increase the taxa ion of manufactured imported goods, London, Yesterday. Reuter’s Tiflis cone-pendent reports that hordes of Tartar refugees are , terrorising the souh'-east Caucasians . by a series of engagements fought at -Shusha between Tartars and Armeni ins behind their regular positions. There are terrible scenes of. pillage ,nd murder, hundreds bping Che condition at Baku is hourly b' *- ■.. . coming worse, Thor© Are innumorabW % incendiary fires, nnd tlje rioters &Ttd several work shops ,in Balantuan -üburb. The troops are powerless to V: -uppress the conflict of Tartars and 1 Armenians. " v St Petersburg, September 5, ; A b .ttle is raging at Baku, Tartars attacked troops and Armenians, over 100 being killed. ~, t " The newspaper Russ, in,a remark-, q able article advo rntts friendship with England for the maiuteuais6io£ Euro - pu a equilibrium and considers the Vuglo Japanese treaty useful since it . will secure Russia from fantastic and ruinous Asiatic adventures. _ ' London, September 5. Numerous Japanese trading colonies !>ave been established in southern Manchuria, especially Nuichwang, Mukden, and Dalny. There are 6000 -ri; Japanese at Niuehwang where there' were only 100 before the war. ; Bishop Kinnion states that though advised not to notice the proceedings of the Agapemonites, he will enquire if there is any new depar ■ ure or anything to give proper cause lor interference, The Pall Mall Gazette, referring! ' , Mr Deakin’s reported intention to • amend the Immigration Restriction Vet, says that it is a step in the right direction, and that our ill-paid surjlus . : <-7 abour may yet find its feet in Australia. Paris, Yes erday, French war correspondents in Manchuria comment unfavourably on the - 1 revailing disorder, ignorance and apathy which have brought- about the < omplete disorganisation of the Russian army. # f Two American ladies in Paris, fails? ing to catch the Cherbourg expresg,’ motored in rain and wiml 217 miles nty 4 hours 38 minutes, and caught the Transatlantic liner. Constantinople, Yesterday, q " An Armenian named Vartanean, a naturalised American, was sentenced to death at Stamboul for killing Apik Undijian, a wealthy Armenian, for-\.. declining to conti ibttte to revolutionary . funds. Yartnian is an emissary of ; - Armenian revolutionaries in America,