AMBUSHED BY REBELS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8209, 13 August 1906, Page 3

AMBUSHED BY REBELS.

News baa been received from German East Atrioa that the distiuguish--aa Garmau Staff Surgeon, Dr. Viehe, and thirty-five native followers, have been]j massacred by native rebels, under the warlike chieftain N'Uosi, in the vicinity of Songea. About there weeks ago Dr. Viehe and his followers had encamped in the forest, when the rebels sprang oat of an am bash and attaoked them simultaneously on all sides. Before they had* tiuia to organise resistance (ill of them had been butchered. NEW 'SIAMESE' TWINS. A pair of 'Siamese' twin sisters from Bohemia who, although of totally different temperaments—one being shy, the othor merry and ou*- . spnken—live very happily together will shortly appear at Vienna. The twins have separate poises and constitutions, and if one is ill the other does not necessarily suffer. They sleep well, ouo lviug on her right side, the other on the left. The girln are well educated speaking French, English, and German, ■ and flaying the violin and the -zither. They pre to be examined under the X-rays by Professor Schrotlier, in order to dotermiue whether there is any danger in an operation ; to separate them. A NEW BRITISH GUN. The London correspondent of the Petit Parisien states that considerable nervousness prevails at the British Admiralty owing to the fact that a ntmber of leakages of the ■ highest importanoe have ocouied dnring the last few months. There • are, says the correspondent, several foreign spies in Loudon pre.3onc moment. A document has disappeared relating to new quiokj firing gun of high power, from which great results are expected, although the final experiments havß not yet been made with it. According the Petit Parisien correspondent, • the Admiralty now knows that all the details of this gun, as well as • otheir important documents, are in the hands of a foreign Power. 0 VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE. A disastrous earthquake that • caused coniderable damage to pro- , ■ pert? and widespread terror and; alarm was experienced in South Wales between 9.40 and 10 o'clock on Thursday, morning, June 23rd. This movement of the earth, which was in a south-westerly direction, was felt over an area of over 20,000 square miles extending from Shrews bury in the north to Birmingham in the east, and Bath and Tavis took and some distriots of Cornwall in the south. It was nearly firteen ruinates passing through the district. The dibturbance was felt at its greatest severity , throughout the thickly populated mining district of South Wales. Houses rooked and ■ chimneys fell all over the wide area of the disturbance. The readout eof towns and villages everywhere were seized with panic, and rushed out: of theif houses into the streets : screaming with fear. At Neath a woman was so terroratricken that she was rendered dumb, while at Newport (Mon.) the fear caused by the shaking earth j made many persons temporarily blind. The miners at work underground were janic stricken, aud there wore pitegus sceness at the pit mouths. > . visit To Panama. Mr Roosevelt intends to go to "Panama in November to see with his •own eyes the condition of the canal. He is expected to stay at 1 Panama for from five to ten days, and to embody his observations and conclusions in bis annual message to Oourgess in December. Besides considering the engineering and sanitary problems and seeng the psogrees already made, it is understood that Mr ( Roosevelt is much ■ interested in the condition of the workmen, and intends to question the men working with pick and shovel, and if they are dissatisfied, to itssue orders for the improvement of their food and housing. The President will mane the trip in a warship, and the Navy Department promises a perfect wireless service so that Mr Roosevelt at all times will be in direct 'communication with Washington.