BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 306, 10 September 1908, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

The processions on Labour Day were unusually lirge and orderly in New Ycrk, Chicago and various centres of Canada. President Roosevelt proposes to ask Congress to add 25,000 men to the United States Army. Dinizulu, the Zulu chief, who is in prison awaiting his trial on charges of treason, etc., and who burst a blood-vessel on August 20th, has recovered. The British imports for August decreased by £6,544,000, the exports by £7,012,000, and the reexports by £547,000 as compared with those of the previous August. Advice from Constantinople states that the Young Turkish party hesitate to arrest Panitza, who assassinated three Bulgarians, adherents of its internal organisation, in December last. The wisdom of the British-'Government in declining to withdraw its officers is widely commented upon as justified, inasmuch as the Young Turkish party’s decision may lead to a renewal of bloodshed in Eastern Macedonia. Extensive fires have been raging in the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and much damage has already been done. Chisholm, a township in the former State, was destroyed, and the city of Duluth, on Lake Superior, was threatened. The amount of the damage so far is estimated at a million and a half dollars. At latest advices the fires in Minnesota had been checked, but 12,000 persons were homeless. The Trade Union Congress has opened at Nottingham. Mr D. J. Shackleton, M.P., in his presidential address, said the unemployment question was most urgent. The first necessity to afford relief was the shortening of hours of labour. He thought the various Governments should promote a great international congress in London. The “ Daily Telegraph ” declares the suggestion to be impracticable. Support for limitation of armaments is unattainable and any attempt to secure limitation of hours of labour would meet with still less--favour.