GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 5, 6 June 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

TRIBAL WARFARE. INDIAN FRONTIER TROUBLE. (Sydney Sun, Special Service). London, May 24. Severe inter-tribal fighting has taken place on the Swat river on the frontier of British India and Afghanistan. The Khan Nawagi, whose sympathies were with the British, has been deprived of power and another chief, Raumura, who was the stormy petrel of the Chitral campaign, has been* invited to accept the vacant khanship. The Chitral campaign, one of the many tribal battles fought between the British troops and the Indian frontiersmen, took place in 1894 and resulted in the rebels being subdued. Colonel Onslow, M.L.A., who was then an Australian officer serving, with the Indian forces, accompanied the British expedition and ac--quired distinction. BRONZE AGE MEN. SKELETON DISCOVERED. London, May 24. ( The skeleton of a man believed to be of the bronze age has been discovered in a cave at Aosta. There were bronze rings on the legs with inscriptions on them. The writing has not yet been deciphered. FRENCH PAPERS SUPPRESSED. GERMAN ACTIVITY. London, May 24. The Diet of Alsace-Lorraine lias unanimously passed a motion condemning the policy of the Central German Government in suppressing French newspapers. | The Diet declares that the province will work out its own future regardless of Chauvinism. QUALIFIED TO- WED. STRINGENT MARRIAGE LAW. San Francisco, May 24. North Dakota has a stringent new marriage la.w. It provides that no man under 25 and no woman under 21 shall marry. Other persons prevented from marrying are common drunkards, habitual criminals, epileptics, imbeciles and idiots. If a person has been affected by hereditary insanity, pulmonary tuberculosis or any contagious or venereal disease, he may not marry within that State without receiving a license, which will be granted only on a doctor's affidavit that the applicant is qualified to marry. THOUGHT THEY WERE RAGS. GOBELIN TAPESTRIES. London, May 24. The fate of a priceless Gobelin tapestry hundreds of vears old has just come to light. In 1863 the tapestries were presented to the museum at Pau. Recently a Government inspector was checking the inventory of the museum, and found that the tapestries were missing. After a prolonged search pieces of the tapestries were found in a sack in a cupboard. The caretaker then explained that his wife thought the "rags" were valueless, and had cut pieces out of them to line her child's trousers. Afterwards the rest of the cloth was used as dusters.