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CABLES.
MORE BILFAST KIOTS,
SRISK REVOLVER FIRING IN THE STREETS.
ARMOURED CARS USED,
LONDON, August 30. Two persons were killed and twelve injured in sectarian rioting at Belfast yesterday. There was a renewal of the disturbance in the morning. Brisk revolver firing took place in the streets-Foree persons were taken to hospital. Police and armoured cars cleared the streets and quietness was restored but not without considerable excitement,
LATER.
One
Revolver firing in the streets was renewed this afternoon. Passengers on tram cars sought safety from stray bullets by lying on the floor. person was killed and four injured.
IRISH RAILWAY STRIKE.
LOCOMOTIVE MEN STRIKE IN DEFIANCE OF UNION.
TROUBLE THREATENING TO SPREAD.
LONDON, August 30.
Contrary to the instructions of their union, the locomotive men of the Great Northern Railway in Belfast struck at midnight against the proposed establishment of a 10 hour day. The trouble threatens to spread to Dublin and Dundalk,
BELFAST TRAIN SERVICE COMPLETELY SUSPENDED. The strike on the Northern Railway of Ireland was due to the refusal of the company to join other companies in arbitration proceedings in Dublin but when announced in the afternoon the company decided to accep: the findings of the arbitration tribunal. The men who struck in Dublin in the morning have resumed. There is still no news of resumption in Belfast where the train service is completely suspended..
CHURCHILL'S ADVISER.
POWER AND INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL IN COLONIES.
LONDON, August 30.
Mr. Churchill bas appointed Sir C. H. Bedford his honorary adviser on questions relating to power and industrial alcohol in the colonies and pro-
tectorates.
[LC. Colonel Sir Charles Henry Bedford, D.Sc., MD, MRCS, FIC
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
To mark the anniversary of the birthday of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands the Consul General fo the Netherlands held an "at home" at the Holland Cub this morning. the Gover, the Colonial Secretary. Representa es of His Excellency
the foreign consts and a large num ber of the Colony's Dutch residents attended the function.
sent
A remarkable tale, which ought really to belong to the middle ages and not the 20th century, is related by the Nichi Nichi. A colonel bas jast
in his resignation trom the Japaceso army, and is reported to be on his way to Manchuria to join the bandits which make a pest of themselves there. Formerly this particular officer took part in the suppression of banditti and Koreans in the Chientao district, but now he appar- His partienlar ambition seems to ently intends to join the other side.
be
10 command a band of mounted braves. Apparently it is not a mere freebooting quest on which the colonel is engaged, for hints are forthcoming of a deep mysterious motive to assist Japan on the Asiatic continent, and a number of young Japanese are joining him in this enterprise.
In the recent storm which swept practically all of the Japanese chast a great many steamers are reported to have had great difficulties in weathering the storm. The "Heiei Maru" of the Tokyo Saghalien line is reported to have been wrecked in the Irake channel on August 16, The Akcheno Maru is said to have had a difficult voyage from Kobe to Yokohama and narrowly escaped encountered a heavy storm some being wrecked, The Kitano Mara
etc., has bad extensive experience in India where he has held a number of distance out to "sen-and-barely· 24- responsible medical posts.}
AMERICAN STEEL TARIFFS.
SHEFFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE'S APPEAL.
WASHINGTON, August 30.
Mr. Arthur Balfour, head of a deputation from the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, appeared before the Senate finance committee and appealed against the prohibitive American tariffs on tigh grade steel. He declared that he did not ask for favouritism but we were anxious to pay our debt to America and this was only possible by trade.
LEAGUE COUNCIL ASSEMBLES.
CHINESE REPRESENTATIVE TO PRESENT FINANCIAL REPORT.
LONDON, August 30.
The Council of the League of Nations assembled this morning under the presidency of Mr. Wellington Koo. The agenda includes the financial report of the League which will be presented by the Chinese representative.
ALLIES PLEASE ATTEND.
AUSTRIANS AND HUNGARIANS IN CONFLICT.
caped being swamped. The Okinawa Maru of the Department of Com- munications started out from Yoko-j hama but foresaw the storm and returned to Yokohama harbour. The wind and rain is still continuing in the Western part of Japan and in the Eastern part the rain has stopped and the waters are becoming calm.
POISON MYSTERY.
PRETTY YOUNG WIFE AND
KICH OLD MAN,
The mysterious death by poison of M. Perineau, a wealthy merchant off Treux. Eure-et-Loir Department, is puzzling the police of that smali provincial town
blonde, has been arrested and charged Mme. Perineau, a young and pretty
with having administered cyanide of potassium to her elderly husband in order to gain possession of his fortune, which was to come to her by the terms of his will. Mme. Perineau protests that she was passionately devoted to the dead man, and has not the slightest idea of how he came to take poison.
M. Perineau died on the sight of
LONDON, August 30. Reports reaching London speak of a number of collisions at Oedenburg between Austrian gendarmerie and Hungarian armed bands whom the Austrian authorities state belong to the Hungarian regalar army. Anti-June 23. His wife says that she did cipating still more serious developments, Austria has forwarded a protest to the Allies suggesting that the Allies see that their orders are respected.
FIGHTING IN MOROCCO.
STRONG MOORISH FORCE SURPRISES SPANISH POSITION.
MADRID, August 30.
A telegram states that a considerable Moorish force made a surprise attack on a Spanish position 23 miles from Alkazarbekir and carried advanced posts after sharp fighting.
DE VALERA'S REPLY.
NOT EXPECTED FOR SOME DAYS YET.
LONDON, August 30.
It is announced in London that Dail Eireann's reply is not expected
for some days. It will be sent to Mr. Lloyd George in Scotiand when it is received.
CANON SHEPPARD DEAD.
.LONDON, August 30.
The death is announced of Canen Edgar Sheppard. [The Rev. Canon Edgar Sheppard, D. D. Oxon, KC,V.O.. had been Canon and Precentor of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, since 1907, He had held several other important clerical positions.]
NEW PORTUGUESE CABINET,
co.
LONDON, August 30;
Senhor Antonio Granjo is forming a new Cabinet.
not go to bed that night. She gave as a reason for this that it was St. John's Eve, and in accordance with a rural superstition she had to remain awake to prevent her fowls from sitting on their eggs, as that would bring a | year's misfortune to the house. At midnight she took up two glasses of water to her husband. He put some salts in one of the tumblers saw him an hour later be had and drank them. When she
fallen to the floor and was dying. She fetched a doctor, who found the merchant dead. Dissatisfied with the symptoms, he informed the price that a post-mortem must be held. It was then found that M. Perineau had swallowed a large dose of cyanide of potassium.
His pretty wife admi's having
wholesale chemist some months, but bought some of this drug from a
asserts that her husband meant to use it to remove stains from some pictographs...
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