DELAYED CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 156, 30 December 1911, Page 2

DELAYED CABLES.

THE LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. THE CUT-THROAT McNAMARAS. New York, December 19. In the current number of the Outlook Colonel Roosevelt has an article on the Los Angelas dynamite outrage. He refers to the McNamara brothers as "depraved criminals who have on their seared souls the murder of innocent persons. The mimlcr-s, although committed nominally in the interests of organised labor, differ no one whit from those of the 'Black Hand' band." "The MeNamaras were mere cutthroats, whose acts were fraught with a heavy menace to society. Though great as the menace was to the community, the menace to honest organised labor is far greater." THE OLIVE BRANCH. MISSION TO GERMANY. Berrlin, December 20. A good deal of stir lias been created among the labor organisations by the prospective visit of British Labor leaders to Berlin. It has been decided by the Labor organisations in England that a contingent of shining lights in the movement shall visit Berlin in the spring as a peace demonstration.

WHEN WAR WAS A MATTER OF HOURS. BERLIN'S VERSION OF TROUBLE. Berlin, December 22. Regarding the German version of the recent crisis that brought this country and Britain so perilously near war, it is no secret that the object of the Government is to square itself with the people before the approaching elections, and to prove to them that it betrayed no weakness during the negotiations. Incidents disclosed by the German Foreign Setretary, Herr Von KiderlinWaechter, show that on three different occasions war between England and Germany was merely a question of hours. A large section of the German Press advocates that England should be recognised openly as an enemy, and that the Government should make that clear in its future policies.

FATHERLAND'S NAVAL SCHEME.

"WILL PEOVOKE ENGLAND TO WAR."

Berlin, December 22,

The Germania, the official organ of the Centre Party, declares that Germany's impending navy scheme will provoke England to war. The total outlay on the scheme will be £17,500,000 distributed over seven years, witli an additional expenditure each year of £2,500,000.

WAR IS CERTAIN.

BRUSH M.P.'s FORECAST.

New York, December 22.

Mr. J. Griffiths, a member of the British House of Commons, declared in the course of an interview that war was certain to take place between Britain and Germany within six years.

A BANK TRUST.

NEW YORK COMBINATION.

Washington, December 20.

There is a movement in the present session of Congress to block all action in the Aldiich Central Bank currency plan. This movement gathered considerable momentum under the eloquence of Representative Lindburgh (Republican). A resolution is now under consideration which provides for the appointment of a special committee to probe the financial situation, which Mr. Lindburgh declares is under Morgan-Rockefeller control, their interests having absolute power over the money resources of the United States, and with it the domination of the country's industrial life. Mr. Lindburgh says that there are seven banks in combination in New York, which dominate the entire financial system of the country, through their control of the immense reserve deposits. The Aldrich scheme is in the interests of a trust maintained and governed by different methods than those of other trusts, though it is the father of them all. Its reserves are loaned to interests that are favored by its banks, to juggle stocks on Wall street, but it is tied up when the real owners of the stock need it in time of financial stringency. A tabulated statement which was submitted with the resolution shows that those banks owe to other banks throughout the country £90,000,000. LONDON FORTUNE-TELLERS. CABINET MINISTER'S WIFE VICTIMISED. London, December 20. Scotland Yard is just now conducting a vigorous campaign against palmists, clairvoyants and others, who are always prepared to reveal the future for a consideration, This action is being taken as the result of a robbery of which the wife of a Cabinet Minister was lately made the victim while on a visit to one of the fortune-telling fraternity. It is reported that the lady lost quite a largo sum. Desperate efforts were made to keep the case out of the newspapers, but the incident leaked out yesterday during a police court prosecution. FEATHERWEIGHTS MATCHED. WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP. San Francisco, December 20. John Kilbane, who has been forcing his way to the front of late, has accepted the offer of a purse by the Pacific Athletic Club in Cleveland for a fight with Abe Attwell for the featherweight championship of the world. The contest has been fixed for February 22. STRANGE STORY OF THE SEA. The captain of the German steamer Elmshorn, on that vessel's arrival in Melbourno last week, told how he had picked up at sea a French sailor, who had been clinging to a plank for 12 hours. The castaway said he was a member of the crew of the French steamer Elolibaks, which had been wrecked while towing another steamer, the Liberia, to Marseilles. The Liberia rescued two passengers and 12 of the crew of the Elolibaks, but the sailor picked up by the Elsnrhorn drifte'd away on his plank. NOT DECADENT. ENGLISH NATION CHAMPIONED. London, December 20. Frederick Townsend Martin, the millionaire author and society man, who wrote "The Passing of the Idle Rich," has denied the allegation of Count Vay, the Hungarian diplomat, who says England is a decadent nation. Mr. Martin, in an interview, said: "English statesmen see clearly the causes of the decline and fall of othor

nations, and provide safeguards in regard to Great Britain. Nations which have fallen have had their strength sapped by extravagance and idleness. "Count Vay talked about wealth being the sole qualification of present-day society. I consider that the London social world is composed of charming, cultured people, who, much as they enjoy the entertainments of the rich, dare not cross the threshold of a house unless the host and hostess are refined. Gold alone does not save anyone from ostracism in the metropolis."

RUSSIA'S FRESH UPHEAVAL. TO COME OFF NEXT YEAR. St. Petersburg, December 20. An inspired article in the ultra-Con-servative organ, the Novoe Vreniya, gives a warning that the Russian revolutionaries are preparing for a fresh upheaval next year, which will take the form of a gigantic rebellion among the peasantry. Propagandists throughout the country are telling the peasants that the Czar promised to give them their lands. The author of the article is M. Mlenszykoff, who concludes with a tirade against the Jews, whom he accuses of being the chief cause of all the prevailing unrest. It is affirmed in progressive circles that the article is intended, to prepare the public for a number of reactionary measures, amongst which will be the making of it an offence for members 6f the Orthodox Church to become Protestants or Catholics. TRAGEDY OF A FIRE. Tragedy attended a disastrous fire, which occurred at Warragul, in Gippsland (Victoria) early one morning last week. The Club Hotel, a two-storeyed wooden building, was burnt to the ground, and a young man named John Marrabel was killed.

The building was a very old one, and the Are had a good hold before the alarm was raised. The inmates had a very narrow escape. The billiard-marker, a man of 72 years of age, tied two sheets together and climbed down the verandah posts at the front, and jumped from a window at the back on to a lower roof. They all escaped with nothing more than their night apparel. Marrabel was assisting in saving the contents of a neighboring building when lie was killed by the explosion of a gas-cylinucr.