ADDITIONAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 260, 24 March 1911, Page 3

ADDITIONAL CABLES

KAISER'S SON SERIOUSLY ILL. I (From the Australian Service). The Kaiser's third son, Prince Adelbert, is seriously ill. The young Prince has appendicitis, and as he is a very delicate youth the physicians fear to operate. PROTEST AGAINST ADVERTISING FOR WIVES. The women men'b.'rx of tlw United Irish League of Canada are forwarding a protest to the Br''t : sh Premier and tht leaders of the Laboi' Party in Er.glind protesting against ihe privately-promot-ed campaign of advertising throughout Great Britain for wives 'or the northwest of Canada. Tis'.s practice, they maintain, tends to commercialise and take away the holiness of matrimony, < will degrade wemanhcol, and may cause untold misery | A LEGACY SACRIFICED. Tn conmv'.iou wi f !i marriage of the Marquis of Glulinn id 'H-v and Mrs. Stirling, who vai divorced in Edinburgh in 190!), the Mar!]i>s" liy his alliance, ichs a legacy of £30,000, which the late Lady Mens bu(|H-Mth ?d U" liirn n t>i" comltion that lie married a society lady. A BISHOP DISMISSED. The Portuguese Government have decided to dismiss the Bishop of Oportc, on the grounds that he urged tfoe priests of his diocese to read a forbidd/ n pastoral letter and also urged the people to revolt. Several priests were arrested while reading the letter to congregations. The missive said that while it was the duty of good Oalnolies to support constituted authority, even though that authority seemed to he hostile to their faith, if the new laws were unjust and contrary to the law of God must be unbending on the side of religion. . , BOXING. .Jack Lester, "the Kistlitin; Demon," has left San Francisco oil his way to Australia to meet Bill L'.ui<» in Sydney on Easter Monday. FATAL AVALANCHE. An avalanche, carried away a workmen's tent at Tiflis while the occupants were asleep. Nineteen were killed, sixteen seriously hurt, and there were seventy cases of minor injury. WRECKED CllfeW SAVED. The- imperilled crow of the British steamer Manchuria, wrecked on a little island off Norfolk, Virginia, were all saved. There were twenty-three souls on board. Nine were carried ashore in the breeches buoy-. KILLED BY A SXOJVStyDE. The new power-house of the HydroElectric Company at Jordan, California, was struck by a snowslide. The buildings were wrecked, eight persons killed, and several injured. FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE. General Bonnal, who was responsible for the statement recently cabled to the effect that the Fraiico-JJnssian alliance was at fin end, has had more'to say on the subject. He add.s'that Russia came to France because she was dissatisfied with the Treaty of Berlin, and thought (hat France was keenly desirous of revenge against Germany for the loss of Alsace-Lorraine. "Little by little," says the General, "Russia has tired of waiting for 1' ranee to make an aggressive move. Finally the Dreyfus case came along, paralysing our offensive forces, the Japanese war weakened Russia, and the idea of revenge was dropped." S AILORS ASPHYXIATED. Three sailors from the cruiser Tennessee were found dead in a room at the Hotel Washington, Hoboken. They had been asphyxiated "by gas, and the jet was still turned on and the gas escaping when the room was broken into. UNITED STATES TROOPS IN MEXICO Travellers returning from Mexico believe that the sudden mobilisation of troops by the United States authorities has resulte4 from .information that Mexico has been planning to cede or adjacent thereto to Japan as a naval lease Magdalena Harbor and the islands base. !