, 1914-01-17

pickering are prohibited and the troops are
authorized. to shoot ~prowlers ut sight, the
penalty beng death for those found with
dynamite III then possession. The strike
regions are divided into vine srens, each in
chqrge Of officers with absolute discretion.
At Johannesburg, Mr. Balu, the Secretary .
the Federation, and g band Of irreoone labIe-
eutrenehed themselves III the Trades TIA
with supplies of food and ammunition, and
detied arrest. The police attempted to
rush the fortress, but finally prudeutlv
resolved to starye the garrison ont. Sttik-
ers attempting to reach the Trades Hall are
being repuIsed by the b~urghers with bay
onetS. The West Rand miues are working
under military protection. but the East Ran!
mines have stopped work, y signnImam has
been courtmartialted and sentenced to one
years imprisonment for stopping u train,
TITUS enabling the strikers to attack the train
Grew. 4 skeleton train service is being
maintained III the Trsnsynal and Cape COLONY.
The Mayor of Pietermaritzbur having
declined to form IL Citizens Cotumittee,
Colonel Clark undertook its formation, aud
compelled the Mayor to serve upon it.
The British League, which has been form
cd for the support of Ulster, includin4 All.
miral Lord Charles Berestord, the Duke of
Bedford and Yiscount Castlereagh, appeals
for assistance for the support OF the dis
tressed if Home Rule is established aud civil
war ensues, with the results Of bIoodslud
and famine.
The War Office issues full page advertise
mtnts in the leading newspapers for the
promotion of recruiting The advantages
Of the service are also being demonstrated
by means OF moving pictures.
The Gladly Mail remarks that the Royal
Oak" AMI the "Royal Sovereign whose
keels have been laid, are two thousand rous
under the estimates, 8ud that their guns are
to be 133 inches instead Of Is, and they Will
use coal INSTEAD of oil.
The ''Staudard' SAYS that Sir Thomas
Liptou's challenger, shamrock Fourth, - IS
to be a centre boarder, and considers this
remarkable when American boats are APP
preaching British models.
Severe cold is beng experienced in Eng
land and on the Continent. Several deaths
have occurred in Paris. While sixty recruits
marching across a bay near st Petersburg
were overwhelmed by u suowstorm aud per
ished. The White Star Liner 'Majestic' has
been compelled to return for repairs, and the
Oceanic" has arrived ut New York with
her rudder deranged. The weather. in the
United States is now more moderate.
A Paris despatch states that Madame
Sarah Bernhard has beer created q Cheva-
lier of the Legion Of Honour, President
Poiucur6 having oyerruled the previous OBJ
jectlou8 to her admission to the order.
Other adviceB from Paris state that Jack
Johnson has signed an agreement to fight
Moran in a tweutv round contest for the
heavyweight championship of the world,
before The race for the Grand Prix de Paris
in the first half of June, Johnson VIII re
celve q cheque for thirty five thousand dol
lars, payable to his wife, on the day of the
f.ht, and Moran will receive five thousand
dollars and a percentage of the receipts
above fortyrhve thousand dollars,
The Bank Of England's reserve ratio has
reached the maximum since 1896, and only
tue lubour troubles in the Union of South
Africa have prevented the reduction of It's
rate.
Despotches from Toxic announce the death
of Count Ito, Admiral of the Fleet.
Other dispatches regarding the recent
earthquake disaster state that its proportions
are still unprecise, but certainly a great po-
pulation Of seventy thousand Inns been scat
tered, The number of the dead is, however,
unknown, A single steamer rescued hun
drels from The island of Snkura, which ~
now totally depopulated, The inhabitants