ADDITIONAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 15, 12 July 1911, Page 7

ADDITIONAL CABLES

The following cable*, appeared on June 24, 2(i, and 27 in Australian papers employing the independent Press Cable service:—

A correspondent, writing to the Standard, complains that Australian and Canadian military officers were overlooked in connection with the Coronation honors.

According to statistics just issued in Paris, Franee ranks first in the consumption of alcohol, of which 32,000,000 gaJlons, or almost 1 gallon per head, are consumed annually. Statistics issued by the United States Department of Commerce discloses that the imports of wool for the current year will approximately amount to Km',ooo- - valued at £3,500,000 The United States army officers who have been investigating Japan's policy of expansion have submitted their report. They state that 79,000 Japanese have been settled in Hawaii, and that the number is increasing, but that in tile Philippines there are not more than 8000. Reports show that the coffee industry has passed entirely from Americans to Japanese, and it is predicted that the latter will before long control the sugar plantations.

Well-known writers, discussing the Coronation, seem impressed by the striking proofs that it afforded of the popularity of the monarchy. This popularity, it is considered, i.s far stronger now than at the accession of Queen Victoria, whilst the bitterness and class antagonism that characterised that period are shown to be much reduced.'

New York papers publish advertisements announcing that the Crystal Palace in London is for sale. The announcement is qualified with the statement that it is earnestly hoped that solneone may come forward and save the historic building for the British people. The total value of the property with the surrounding land is estimated at £1,500,000. A terrific tornado, which lasted for three hours, swept over Valparaiso and harbor. 'Die town was in total darkness and the streets were strewn with'debris. Numerous ships collided in p the stream and several persons were drowned. The crew of the armored cruiser Esmeralda performed many heroic feats in saving lives, At Iquique over 100 loaded lighters were sunk in the harbor, and the Italian ship Cavaliere Campha also foundered. It is feared that considerable damage has been done to the town and the nitrate fields in the interior. The loss, so far as it is known, is estimated at £2,000,000 «

To prove that the boundary line between Canada and the United States was not fixed according to the award made by the Emperor of Germany in the San Juan Question is the task upon which a party of British engineers has just entered. The object of the survey is to sliow that If the delimitation had been made correctly many small islands and a large portion" of San Juan Island itself would have become British territority. The triangulation has already begun, and upon the data secured by the experts now engaged in the work will be based a claim for 'the cession of the territory in question, which is the key to the salmon-fishing industry of Puget Sound, and which, if ceded, will; give Canada Complete control of an industry worth £3,000y000 annually. The salmon fisheries dispute between Canada and the United States, which has remained undecided for several years, is believed to underlie the new movement.

While practically declaring that true reports had been received of horrible atrocities perpetrated in the rubber countries of Peru and Ecuador, the British Government have asked the Peruvian legation in London to apologise to Truth newspaper and Mr. Hardenberg, a railway engineer, for having accused them of participating in a scheme to blackmail the Peruvian Amazon Company, whose headquarters are in London. According to latest advices, the Peruvian Government have promised to do all in their power to terminate the atrocities, and the attitude of the British Foreign Office suggests that they intend to keep Peru to the task.

The case of a young Italian women, Angerlno N'apolitano, who is under sentence of death in Ontario for having killed her husband, has aroused widespread attention. Wo impressed with the woman's innocence is Patrick Falcon, a man in Chicago, that he lias written to the Governor-General offering to die on the scaffold to prevent the Dominion from making a cruel mistake. About a dozen woihen's clubs are appealing to the Government to pardon the condemned woman.

Tim Rev. IT. S. Nichols, who for the last 2fll years has been stationed as a missionary in China, and who has returned to New York, states that with its fiscal system involved and its people impoverished through successive droughts, and embittered through constant injustice, China will soon be plunged into the greatest of all civil wars. Sir Herman Bernstein, who has just returned from hi.s animal visit to Russia, declares that tile condition of tlie dews in that country is now worse than ever, lie adds that the entire Russian Press headed by the Novoe Vremya, a semi-official organ, is assailing the .lews with renewed activity.

The Herman army manoeuvres this year will be on a scale of unprecedented splendor. It is expected that the Kaiser himself will lead the 2.10,000 men who will be in the field. The most spectacular event will be the attack 011 the capital by half the army, comprising the Second and Ninth Army Corps and a cavalry division, which, for the purpose of the mimic warfare, will be assumed to have effected a landing on the Mecklenburg coast. The defence of the city will be under taken by a corps of the Guard, a picked cavalry division, and the Army Corps Reservists. Many notable foreign visitors, including the Prince of Wales, will be among the spectators. There was another exciting scene at the trial of the Camorrists in Viterbo. Teuislano, head of the prison guard at I'oz/.ouli, where many of the prisoners have been confined, submitted a list of the Camorrists who, he asserted, attended the banquet at which the death of Cnoccolo and his wife was decreed. Quickly noting that the names were given in the same order as they appeared on the list presented by the informer Abbatemmagio, the prisoners, loudly declared that the latter and Teuislano had prepared the lists together. The occupants of the cage worked themselves up to a state of great excitement, and it was some time before, the witness could go on with his evidence. Reliable advices from Albania tell how critical is the situation just now in that disturbed region. Fifty thousand troops are massed within ii dar's march of the Montenegrin frontier. Mr. Chas. Crane, of Chicago, who has arrived in Vienna after having travelled from Qetinje, describes the wholesale devastation in which the Turks are now engaged. Everywhere they are burning the crops, and otherwise laying the country in ruins, and killing those whom they make prisoners. Mr. Crane says that a large number of Albanian women and children were caught between two Turkish wings, and that it 'would have been impossible for them to escape. Twenty-five thousand women and children fled to Montenegro. These, hapless creatures, when Mr. Crane saw them, were starving. The only food on which they had been subsisting was boiled grass roots.