The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-10-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
Reports from places along the path
Of the recent typhoon in the island O
Luzon and the southern islands Of the
Philippine archipelago indicate great
loss of life and property. In the water
surrounding Samar and other islands
many coasting vessels and island
transports have been wrecked. The
coast guard cutter Leyte is q com
plete wreck and. eleven Americans and
twenty-four natives we're drowned. At
the town Of Sorsogon fifteen natives
were drowned. In the interior Of the
island of Samar thousands of natives
are homeless and the same report
comes from many Of the other small
Islands. The army posts in the south
ern islands have been destroyed.
The text of the Anglo-Japanese
treaty signed Aug. II has been issued
from the British foreign office. The
treaty contains eight clauses and a
long preamble. The latter states that
the object of the treaty is the main
tenance of general peace in Asia and
India and the preservation of the in
terests Of all the powers in China, by
insuring the integrity CT China and
the principle OF equal opportunity for
the commerce Of all nations.
The special committee of the Nor
wegian storthing. to which the ques-
ton was REFERRED he's decided by u
votes to 6 to recommend to parlia-
ment the adoption of the government
bill embodying the draft Of the treaty
providing for the separation Of Nor
way and Sweden signed at Karlstad
Sept. %. It'll
Following a long ana earnest debate
concerning the question of the re-
sumption of work the students of the
ST. Petersburg university decided by
a large majority to resume their stud,
les stbecause an open university will
be nor dangerous to- imperialism
than a university on strike"
The interisland steamer Canlabenia,
1902 tons, was sunk III the recent.
typEoon Off Ticao island, one Of the
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board were lost. She carried 5 Amer
leans, 1 Spaniard and IL native and
Chinege passengers and a crew of 81
men and officers. :
Between forty and fifty persons were.
injured in riots at Budapest when the
and adl1erents OF the coali-
ton parties, including students. clashed
opposite the Royal hotel and for two
hours there were scene of tremen-
dous excitement.
Mail advices received at Victoria,
B. c., IRON the South a include de-
tails of a disastrous typhlnon and tidal
wave in the Marshall group, causing
the loss Of about 100 lives. A wave
nearly six feet high swept the island
Of Walnut.
The coastiHg steamer Hsiesho, ply
between Shanghai Gnd Tientsin,
and WEES totally destroyed by a
mine ninety miles south of the Sham
tung promontory- Fifteen persons on
board the vessel were drowned.
Premier Rouvier and Prince won
Radolin, the German ambassador, have
the Franco German accord o
corning the Moroccan conference, thus
definitely terminating che difficult ne
Tue. sultan of Turkey persists in
his unyielding attitude regarding the
financial control of Macedonia. A
deadlock has been reached, ~necessitat-
ing fresh measures on the part of the
powers.
Deputy Zolta Lengyal, leader of the
radical wing of the Coalition party,
wants TO inaugurate a mutiny of all
the Hungarians in the Austro-Hungary
army in support of the coalition de-
mandS.
The negotiations between the Berlin
electrical companies and their am
ployes for higher wages have been
broken off aud a general strike Dr.
dered. Sixty thousand men are af-
fected.
Fifty thousand Bengalis, assembled
at the temple of Kolighat, have sworn
by the Goddess Kali to boycott British
goods as a protest against the parti-
ton of the province of Bengal.
The insurgent chief, Morengo, in an
engagement Sept. 26 in German South
west Africa captured 200 horses from
the Germans. Nine Germans were
killed.
The German governments definite
proposals to the United States for a
commercial treaty are about ready to
forward to Washington.
A tornado struck Malmesbury. Cape
Colony, a town of 5000 inhabitants,
and reduced it to ruins. A number Of
persons were killed.
The Swedish steamers Njord and
Robert collided in Finnish waters and
the Robert sank. Twenty persons
were drowned.
ECHOES OF FAR EASTERN WAR.
M. WHITE, the senior Russian peace
plenipotentiary, returned to st. Peters
burg Thursday and the enthusiastic
welcome accorded by the waiting