DELAYED CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 13, 10 July 1911, Page 7

DELAYED CABLES.

ARABS' BLOODY STRUGGLE. DAGGER-FIGHTING AT CLOSE QUARTERS. London, June 28. Messages from Jlodeidnh, an Arabian seaport of the Red Sea, and 100 miles N.N.W. of Mocha, state that there has been a big uprising in the Yement district. A mob .of armed rebels cut up Mohamed Ali Pasha's column close to Glieczan. 100 miles north of Hodeidah.

At such close quarters wag the fighting conducted that 500 of the Turkish refugees who were wounded were covered with dagger cuts. The Turkish gunboat Sutebbe intended to shell the Arabs, but, instead, ehelled Gheezan, killing and wounding several hundred soldiers.

Later on, however ,the ship's crew captured four big guns, two Maxim guns, and 2000 rifles, together with a lot of ammunition.

The rebels eventually decamped into the country.

A little to the north of Gheezan is the vilayet Assyh, where Arab nomads recently captured a garrison relief force of 30U0 officers and men that was on its way from Mecca to .the vilayet.

JAPAN'S DISLIKE. AMERICA GETS MOST OF IT. Vancouver, June 28. The Seattle Times says that it is apparent that America is bearing tne brunt of Japan's opposition to the fourPower subscription of China's new loan of six millions.

The loan is at 5 per cent, and allotments of equal amounts were made to Great Britain, Germany, France and America. The amounts were heavily over-subscribed in London and Berlin immediately, the subscription lists being closed almost as soon as they were opened.

The operations has been taken as a eerious affront by the Japanese. At a recent meeting of the Pacific Society, Dr. Hasagawa delivered a vehement tirade against the United States. He declared that the fact of China being backed by America was the sole cause of the unfriendly attitude adopted by the Chinese towards Japan on every matter which concerned the two nations. He also stated that the anti-Japanese feeling in China is becoming acute.

STILL UNHOBBLED. AMERICAN RECIPROCITY PROPOSALS. t Washington, June 28. Senator Penrose, chairman of the Republican Committee of Finance, expressed the opinion to-day that the Canadian reciprocity proposals would not fail by reason of the new coalition of the insurgent Republicans with the Democrats. He said that the differences between these political elements were so radical that the present combination would not continue. It would be a short-lived union.

OORELLI'S DEBUT. DANCES WITH BEARDLESS YOUTHS AND ANNOYS WOMEN. London, June 28. Miss Marie Corelli, the novelist, who! has been for many years a hermit at her home. Mason Croft, Stratford-on- ] Avon, appeared in society last, evening. Her debut was quite unheralded. I She attended (he fancy dress ball of the Royal Society of Water-color Painters. During the evening she danced with many journalists, and this caused some surprise, as Miss Corelli is known to abhor the profession. She had a number of beardless youths as her dancing partners. The. women illustrators were distinctly annoyed to hear tile 'distinguished i novelist announce that she did not care I to meet any of the women, preferring I the men's company.