CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10191, 18 March 1911, Page 3

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Press Association.

The British Labour Party has issued a manifesto protesting against the huge Naval Estimates which it considers are a menace to international peace.

The £2OOO prize for the flight round the statue of Liberty has been awarded to De Lesseps by the Aero Club. Both Moissant and Grahame White were disqualified, the latter being alleged to have fouled. De Lesseps finished last.

German steel firms are vigorously competing for the supply of railway material to Japan for widening the gauge of the Tokio-Shumonosiki railway and construction of various new lines involving an expenditure of 23 millions, spread over a period of 13 years.

Thomas Walsh, an ex-sergeant of the 87th Regiment, died at Newcastle yesterday, aged ninety-seven. He served under General Pollock when avenging the massacre of Pollock's division at the Khyber Pass. He served through the Sikh and Crimean wars, the Indian mutiny, and in the 70th Regiment took part in the Maori war;

The Central and Pennsylvania railroads have been fined respectivley £7OOO and £4OOO for illegally granting rebates to the Standard Oil Trust. The litigation was begun in 1907;

Mr Roosevelt, at Albuquerque, New Mexico, denounced Senator Lorimer as unfit to hold public office, and attacked Senator Haskell, of Oklahaine, on similar grounds.

In the House of Commons, during the course of the debate on the Army estimates several members criticised the action of the War Office in giving the contract for supply of the meat for the. troops stationed in the Curragh to foreign countries. (The Curragh is a large undulating down in the centre of County Kildare, Ireland, the property of the Crown, and the training ground of the army. It usually accommodates some 12,000 troops.)

The Evening Standard says that military circles consider that Lord Kitchener's time is being frittered away. A suggestion has been made that Kitchener should be employed for five years in developing the overseas armies and acting as adviser and intermediary between the respective, Governments, framing a concrete scheme of defence as outlined by Sir Joseph Ward and Mr J. Smuts, the South African Defence Minister;

The Sydney Daily Telegraph, discussing the gravity of the relations between America and Japan over the question of supremacy in the Pacific, urges Australia's danger. It goes on to say that we must rely on the Imperial Navy to protect us, and the latter may be fully occupied in European waters. In the light of such an outbreak W3 can see the importance of colonial efforts going to strengthen the Imperial fleet, and realise the grim joke of Australia being ready, with Its own little navy twenty of twen years hence!