VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10657, 12 June 1912, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

GERMAN KAVY

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IN ADDITION TO TH'OGi; AUTH-

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Received This Morning, 12.15 o'clock

BERLIN, June 11. Admiral \ on Rooster, an the annual congress of the Navy League, urged the laying down of five additional armoured cruisers before 1917, apart from those provided for in the latest Navv Act.

NAVAL MAT-TICKS

MEDITERRANEAN PROBLEMS,

GOVERNMENT SHIRKING POSITION, (Received last night, 11.30 o'clock.) LONDON, Jumo 11. A report in the Daily Mail protests against the half measures implied m the Malta programme. The Government, -it says, is shirking instead of boldly facing the real Mediterranean problems. "We are not," the report states, "entitled to ask {lin-other Power, however warm and sincere a friend, for a remedy in consequence of our negligence."

RUSSIAN TROOPS

IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS

Received This Morning, 12.45 o'clock.)

LONDON, Juno 11

Advices have l)etvn .received that the Russians have moved three squadrons of Cossacks and two companies of.infantry into Kashgar City.

SEAMEN'S STRIKE

INCREASED WAGES DEMANDED.

ATLANTIC LINERS HELD UP

Received This Morning, 12.45 o'clock,.

PABIS, June 11. The seamen's .strike at Havre for an increase in wagGs is extending. Several' Atlantic liners are held up.

WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

PREVENTION LAWS STRENG-

THENED

(Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.)

LONDON, June 11. In ih" House of Commons a Biii strengthening the laws against tinwhite slavo traffic, was read a second time.

THE TITANC ENQUIRY

RECOMPENSE REFUSED,

THE QUESTION OF BOATS

(Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.)

LONDON, Juno 11

The Cnnard company has refused to ho recompensed for the picking up of the Titanic's survivors. The White Star Company .has presented gifts ranging from a hundred guineas to the captain,-' and two month',s pay to the crew. The Hon. A. Carlisle,'- managing director of Messrs Harland and Wolff, states that he showed the White Star Company his plans, providing for more .boats than the Tiitanic possessed. It rested with the company to decide the .number. He signed the report of the Advisory Committee of the Board of Trade, recommending fewer boats than the Titanic carried. He admitted that it was difficult to explain why he had signed, aa he did inot -approve of the number. Mr Have Lock Wilson also signed, though he did not approve.