Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-28
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TO the Advertiser

A Durazzo dispatch to The London
Times CO December 23, says:
AFTER four days of fighting in the
district between the Daltschi, ten
miles north of ,Alessio, the Turks
were driven out of the Neutral Zone
| on Friday. They lost several hun
SerYian losses are said to have
amounted to 200. - d
"A Greek steamer has brought to
Durazzo great quantities of war
stores and twelve guns from Salonica
for Servians at Alessio" That Tur-
key viii refuse to pay any pecuniary
| indemnity to bring about peace in
the Balkan war is regarded as certain
in London today. y 1t is reported that
| all the ENJOYS received minute and
detailed Instructions concerning eX-
actly what recession from heforiginal
demand they are allowed to make.
Dispatches received today from So
| fla say that Bulgaria is actively pre-
pairing to resume hostilities against
Turkey, and state that youths not
ordinarily liable to military service
until 1914, were being conscripted,
! and regular troops kept in readiness
to resume hostilities.
Determined that the plans of the
Panama Canal Notifications shall not
become the property of possible for
eign military advisers, Col Goethals,
chairman of the Canal commission,
has resorted to the order to exclude
photographers from the vicinity of
the works going up at Torpet Maru-
garia Island, and the islands in Pa
mama Bay. So. ~ ..s,l.sss--..:.
English Channel for the last few;
days has caused serious loss of life
and property on the French coast
A sailing vessel was driven ashore to-
day on the Island of Brehat, off the
Britanny coast, and torpedo boat has
been sent from Brest to bring off the
survivors of the crew Many fishing
vessels have been lost with their.
crews at various points along the
north and northwestern coasts of
France 49, ~ $50. 81. Il. -, 4.s -.
Wireless reports today state that
the United Fruit Company's steamer
Turrialba, which ran on a reef off
Egg Harbor, New York, recently in
a binding. blizzard, was safely float.
ed by tugs and is expected to arrive
at New York tonight >s
With the declaration that the Unit
ed States should raise all its sugar,
the department of agriculture today,
issued an appeal to the American
farmer to go in for the cultivation
OF the sugar beet. There are 2,000,-
600 short tons of beets now imported
annually, says the department. which
should be raised at home. H..
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Persistent reports that King George
is suffering from severe attack of
Influenza were emphatically denied
today by His Majesty's private secre.
tary. :. ...- ..~.... ....-..-. Il
Secretary John Heydler, of the Ma
tional League, left today for Aiken,
South Carolina, where he will assist
President johnson, Of the American
League. and President Dreyfuss. of
the Pittsburg National League Club,
to draft the schedules for the big
league baseball season for 1913. Al.
though April 10 has been announced
as the opening date for both leagues,
the full schedules will not be made
public until the middle of February,
when the National and American
Leagues will have their schedule ratf-
fication meetings in New York.
Testifying in New York today be-
fore the committee of aldermen in
vestigating alleged police graft, Po-
lice Commissioner Waldo defied the
probers to force him to disclose the
records of his department unless he
wished to-. a..
Asked why he hampered the spe-
cial examiners investigation of po-
lice departments, Waldo said:
Il do not propose to let a lot of
youngsters go through the records
and tear them to pieces. The whole
matter was started merely to create
a sensation"
A son was born yesterday to
Prince August William, the fourth
son of the Emperor, and Princess
Augusta William, who was Princess
Alexandra Victoria, of SchlesWig-Ho
stein. Prince William and the Prin-
cess were married October %. 1898,
and this is the first child of the
union.
]. r. Keene. who has not been in
good health for a long time, is re-
ported today in a worse condition