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Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3753, 9 April 1908, Page 3

Cable Summary.

London, April 7. In anticipation of Mr Churchill's promotion to the Cabinet, Manchester Conservatives are strenuously preparing for an election. Earl Crewe and Baron Tweedmouth have been created Knights of the Garter and Thistle respectively, in succession to the late Duke of Devonshire and Lord Linlithgow. Mr Chamberlain, in acknowledging a resolution adopted by the Conservative Association's meeting at Catevhall Valley, said he believed the tariff reform and preference had taken a firm hold of the British people. He had never, in his long experience, known any new policy received with so much acceptance in so short a time. Mr G. N. Baine's resignation of the secretaryship of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers has been accepted. Pekin, April 7. Four Japanese, apparently out of private revenge, entered the American Consulate at Mukden and attacked the native staff. The ConsulGeneral had them arrested and conveyed to the Japanese ConsulateGeneial. No apology was offered. Calcutta, April 7. Disaffection among the Indain telegraphists delays 400,000 telegrams in India. Some messages are a week old, and business is being disorganised. Several messages have been stolen, including one of the Viceroy's. There is an outcry amongst the commercial men in India over the intention of certain European States to opose the continuance of artificial code words at the Lisbon Telegraph Conference. Berlin, April 7. A lieutenant of-the White Dragoons has disappeared from Metz. He is suspected of selling military secrets, including the details of a new quickfiring gun. Lisbon, April 7. Three were killed in the riot at Lisbon yesterday. The police fired a volley after a round of blank cartridges. The Monarchists swept the country, only six Republicans being elected, including four in Lisbon. St. Petersburg, April 7. Twenty-three Russian officers were court-martialled and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for writing to a Kieff newspaper a protest against the inaction of the troops during the anti-Jewish pogroms.