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GREAT JAPANESE ADVANCE. THE PASSES CAPTURED. The great Japanese advance has begun. From thre* points armies are converging on the Russian position near Liao-yang, and General Kuropatkin has already sent to his Imperial master a report full of ominous significance. General Kuroki's army is spread out in a great fan, which extends from the hills level with Mukden on the north well into Southern Manchuria, where it is joined by the iorce under General Nodzu advancing from Taku- the semi-circle being completed by General Oku's force, which, having defeated Baron Stackel- berg in the Liautung Peninsula, is marching on the railway towards Haicheng. General Kuro- patkin's main army is understood to be somewhere between the last-named place and Liao-yang, and it is for this point that the Japanese are making. Tha first steps have been accomplished success- ful v. General Kuroki has thrown his troops simultaneously forward on his two wings and his centre, and has captured the three passes which were regarded as the main safeguards of the Russian position, and the chief difficulties before the Japanese. The centre pass is the Mo-tien-ling P iss on the Liao-yang road from Feng-whang-cheng, -wi-ch was said to be strongly fortified. On the right wing the Ta-ling Pass, in the neighbourhood of Siiimatse, h;is been carried and on the left, after a six hours' fight, a strong Russian force has been driven from the Fen-shiu-ling Pass, a little to the Ecrth-west of Siu-yen. General Kuropatkin describes tl:" operations in a message to the Czar, and lays emphasis on the superiority of the Japanese ,e- nun hers. He says that on June 26th the Japanese troops attacked the advance guard troops of the Russian eastern front, posted before the Fen-shiu- ling, Mo-tien-ling, and Ta-ling Passes. The Russian cavalry and infantry, while retiring under the pr-soure of the Japanese, ascertained that the attack on each of the above-mentioned passes was made by a superior force. Besides their frontal movement, the Japanese turned both flanks of the troops occupying the Fen- shiu-ling and Mo-tien-ling Passes, employing con- siderable forces for the purpose in each instance. Cn the morning of June 27th a small Japanese force attacked the troops who had retired from Fen- shir.-ling Pass to Ti-khe. but was easily repulsed. On "-he evening of June 26th, after having thrown back the advance guard troops from Wang-tsia- pv.-ts^ towards the Ta-ling Pass, the Japanese con- tinued their advance against the Russian position on that pass. The troops of the advance guard for some time cftered resistance to a brigade of infantry with three batteries advancing against our front, but, finding thev were in danger of being outflanked by other Japanese troops, they fell back. I It has been established by reconnaisances that a portion of the Japanese army in the south is advancing north-east to effect a junction with General Kuroki's army, and at noon it was reported that the Russian cavalry was hotly engaged at &er>vu-cheng. Collating all information received during the last f. w days, the strength of the Japanese army can be e^r.r.ated at eight or nine divisions of infantry and several brigades of cavalry. The Japanese have now brought up their reserves into their first line. CORRESPONDENTS DEAD. A correspondent at Tientsin learns that Mr. Middieton, the correspondent of the Associated Tress, has died at Liao-yang of dysentery. Another correspondent, Mr. Knight, of the Momiwj Post, is said to have been killed in the battle of Telissu. Mr. E. F. Knight, who is no doubt referred to, had his right arm amputated in South Africa after being wounded while taking part in Lord Methuen's abortive effort to relieve Kimberley. THE LOSSES AT TELISSU. General Oku has now sent the final figures of the Japanese losses at the battle of Wa-feng-tien, or Telissu, in which his forces engaged and beat those of Baron Stackelberg. The Russians in the fight ani subsequent retreat are said to have lost 10,000 men killed and wounded. The Japanese casualties in the battle were 217 killed, including seven officers, and 946 wounded, including forty-three cihjers. WHY KUROPATKIN HAS FAILED. A correspondent at Niuchvvang sends a transla- tion of a letter written by an officer at the Russian headquarters, which gives a pathetic account of the dissensions which prevail among the staff officers, and goes far to explain the non-success of General Kuropatkin's plans. The letter reads: "It is sad to see our officers constantly quarrelling. They are divided into cliques, and fight so for their own iiitfre-ts that Japan, the common enemy, is forgotten. Everyone, from the Viceroy and General Kuropatkin down to insignificant subalterns, quarrels, and is unwilling to obey orders. In the eyes of the war correspondents and foreign attaches wc are disgraced, and until the whole system is changed we cannot hope for victory. Jealousy and suspicion are rampant throughout the Army. The members of our Secret Service are so busy spying on each other that they cannot apprehend spies, and Japanese agents carry on their work with iirpunity. J.ipan apparently knows every plan made by us, which accounts for many of our plans being suddenly changed. Our brave soldiers go into battle like Iieep to the shambles. None can deny their loyalty; but until properly officered their loyalty is wasted." 'If

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'7l. FIERCE BATTLE ET. HAND-TO-HAND COMBATS. A message from (iyangtse, dated Monday, says: Briii'idi-r-General Macdonald, with the reinforce- ments, arrived here on Sunday evening after a still light with the enemy at Xaini Monastery, in which the expeditionary force also took part. Our mounted infantry from both sides met the day before at Xaioi, and found the monastery strongly held. They were fired on, and a sepoy was killed. The same afternoon from Gyangtse Camp we saw several hundred Thibetans stealing along the hills towards Naini. Accordingly early on Sunday morn- ing Colonel Brander led out one portion of the garrison with guns, and occupied the hills above the monastery. He also sealed the outlet towards the river, in the hope that General Macdonald, coming up with the reinforcement column, would drive the enemy into our arms. The Thibetans, however, obstinately held the monastery and the small villages surrounding i, fighting with the FEKOCiTY OF WlLD CATS cr.ught in a trap. The initial assault was delivered by the 2nd Mounted Infantry and the 40th Pathans, who were later reinforced by the 23rd Pioneers. The enemy held their rifle-fire till the troops were within a few hundred yards of them, but were unable to check the onward rush of the Pa*bans. The 40th had not been in action since their reron-ititution, and had their name to make or save. They have now made it. They escaladed 11;1, walls and engaged in a series of almost individual combats. These Thibetan houses and n.onasteries are full of small rooms and cellars, so that fighting took place in cellars in pitch darkness. Some of the Pathan officers discovered that the enemy would blaze off their rifles and matchlocks a< soon as a doorway or a trap-door was darkened. They i.ccording!y iT'siua) thkir uei.mits in* front of tliem, and the men did the same with, their tliri): it afterwaris rushing in immediately the enemy had tired his volley. This ruse undoubtedly saved many lives. Finally, after SOIl1l' assistance from shelftire, the l'a:han's and mounted infantry captured i he monastery and the villages on the left. Colonel I'rander's party being able to shoot down a few Thibetans who bolted. Meanwhile the 23rd Pioneers were engaged in clearing the villages on the left, win re the resistance offered was just as obstinate as elsewhere. The enetnv refused to leave t l;e small house?, despite the fact that we brought up trims and shelled them at a range of cCO yards. The figh:ii;g here was rendered note- worthy by A Ci AT. I. ANT EXPLOIT on the par" of Lieutenant Turnbull, who, with only six men, had walked up to a house full of the eilen-y. Two of his men were immediately shot down—one failing immediately beneath a series of loopholes. Lieutenant Turnbull carried the wounded man into safety under a heavy fire. After four hours' the last shots of the enemy died away, and the order was given for the force to march on towards Gyangtse camp. About a dozen Lhassa rifles were taken from dead Thibetans. The shooting of the enemy was not very straight, other- wise our losses would have been very heavy. We have five killed and six wounded, among the latter being Major Lye, of the 23rd Pioneers.

LORD ROSEBERY DENOUNCES THE GOVERNMENT. Lord Rosebery on Saturday addressed a large gathering in Lambton Park, Lord Durham's seat. It was just nine years ago, lie said, that the Liberal Government was turned out on what was partly a catch vote in relation to our stores of ammunition by the party which had since confessed that in the very height of a great war it had allowed the stock of ammunition to sink to a few thousand cartridges. On that occasion Mr. Chamberlain asked the country what had the working man benefited by the Liberal Government. That Liberal Government had not much strength to do anything. It had a precarious majority in the House of Commons, and the unanimity of the House of Lords against it. There- fore, with all its aspirations, it was not able to do much. He returned Mr. Chamberlain's question, and asked how had the working man or any other class or part 01 the population of this country been the better for the nine years of Tory Government? Deluded by that question of Mr. Chamberlain and the bait of old-age pensioes and other benefits, the Tories got a large majority, and in 1900 the country gave them another. That was solely on the question of the maintenance of the war in the hands which were then carrying it on. The war had ended, and the Government had used its majority for other purposes—the introduction of Chinese labour into South Africa, the measure for strengthening the already overpowering influence of liquor, and for dissociating taxation and representation in the niana; ement of our education. To his mind that was not svraight dealing. He was afraid sometimes that Government would go down to posterity as the "iiaiiky-paitkv" Government. There was no doubt that the Government had no mandate from the people for a number of the measures which it had passed. Nearly every by-election had gone dead against the Government, and there was no doubt that public feeling was in favour of a change of rule. The Licensing Bill was endow- ing the brewers, and making stronger a trade interest which was already felt too strongly. One of the indirect effects of Protection, which would be a curse to all of us, would be the intro- duction of powerful corrupting influences which would poison the very sources of our national life. By the Licensing Bill, it was calculated, -P-00,000,000 would be handed over not to the publican but to his great and swollen employers. That was an illustration of the mischief which might be done by allowing one section to acquire such a power that the Government bowed and cringed before it. The value of a licence was State- given, and was undoubtedly the property of the State. Under Protection there would be two score interests, all demanding that their products should be subjected to heavy import duties, and making their hand lie heavy on the Government which refused. It. meant the future of the country being choked and controlled and corrupted by these wealthy interests. He called on the audience to use, its'btst efforts to dismiss the present unfor- tunate and sinister Government, and place the Liberal party in power with a large majority.

TOLSTOY ON THE WAR. Count Leo Tolstoy has written a remarkable pamphlet on the liusso-Japauese war. It is in thirteen sections, or chapters, and the complete text was published in Monday's Tinies, of which i, occupied nearly two pages. The brochure is a most uncompromising denunciation of war in general, and of the present war in particular, and abounds ia striking phrases. For the most part, however, Count Tolstoy approaches his subject from its metaphysical and abstract side, and has little to say upon the merits of the questions at issue between the two contending Powers. There i", however, one passage which constitutes an unmistakable indictment of Russia's policy in the Far East as wantonly and intolerably aggres- sive, not only towards Japan, but also towards Korea and China. It is as follows: fit order not to let the Japanese into Manchuria, and to expel then; from Korea, not 10,0C0 hut fifty and more thousands will, accowling to all proba- bility, be necessary. Fifty thousand live Russian men will be killed in support of those stupidities, robberies, and every kind of abomination which were accomplished in China and Korea by immoral, ambitious men, now sitting peacefully in their palaces and expecting new glory and new advantage and profit from the slaughter of these 50,000 unfor- tunate defrauded Russian working men, guilty of nothing and gaining nothing by their sufferings and death. For "other people's land, to which the Russians have no right, which has been criminally SI it., d from its legitimate owners, and which in reality is not even necessary to the Russians -—i-ii a'so for certain dark dealings by specu- lators, who in Korea wished to gain money out of other people's forests many millions of money are spent—i.e., a great part of the labour of the whole of the Russian j 'ople, while the future generations of this people at- bound by debts, its best workmen are withdrawn frl l labour, a;;d scores cf thousands of its sons are mercilessly doomed to death. And the destruction of these unfortunate men is already begun. More than this the war is being managed by those who have l atched it so badly, so negligently, all is so un- expected, so unprepared, that, as one paper admits, Ku.-sia's chief chance of success lies in the fact that it possesses inexhaustible human material. It is upun this that rely those who send to death scores of thousands of Russian men

LICENSING BILL PROTEST. A demonstration, organised by London temperance societies, against the Licensing Bill, took place on Saturday in Hyde Park. The main procession, to which most of the metropolitan districts contri- buted, formed up on the Embankment, and thence, with bands and banners, marched to the Park, through some of the principal streets of the metro- polis trade societies, political and religious bodies, and temperance organisations being largely repre- sented in the demonstration. Speeches were de'ivered from twenty platforms, the principal speaker being Sir Wilfrid Lawson-at No. 1 Plat- form. Sir Wilfrid assured his hearers that this was a free country governed by the brewer—because London returned fifty Tories. In the present fight they had as their opponents Balfour, Bung, and Birmingham. It was the most tremendous effort that had ever been made to rob the people of this country. Dr. Clifford, Mr. T. P. Whittaker, M.P., Mr. R. Bell, M.P., and many others denounced the bill. Resolutions were passed strongly condemning the bill and calling upon "all who have the welfare of the people at heart to make the most strenuous effort to prevent it from becoming law."

THE LATE EARL OF CORK. A memorial service for the late Earl of Cork was held at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, on Monday simultaneously with the funeral of his lordship at Frome. The King was represented by Lord Suffield, the Queen by General Sir D. Probyn, and Prince Christian by Lieutenant Colonel Wray. There was a large attendance of officers and ex- officers of the Royal Household and others. The Rev. Dr. Sheppard, Sub Dean of the Chapels Royal, conducted the service.

CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. After the service at St. Nicholas Church, King's Lvun, on Sunday morning, the congregation remained in the building until a severe thunder- storm had passed over. While waiting the light- ning struck the church, and what is described as a ball of fire burst, with a loud report, in the in- terior. The electric fluid had apparently passed down the iron stove pipes in the corners. The dazzling flish greatly frightened a number of school- children seated near one of the stoves, but the members of a Volunteer Corps which had attended the service got them under control. Several ladies fainted, and a number of adults rushed for the door, but a panic was averted by the majority of the congregation keeping their seats and the prompt action of the attendants. At the evening service there was thanksgiving for the escape of the congregation.

FERRYBOAT DISASTER. A terrible disaster has occurred on the River Khoper, one of the tributaries of the Don, near the station of Zotova, in the Rostoff-on-Don district. Two hundred and fifty persons, mostly pilgrims from adjacent villages, and including many women and children, were precipitated into the river while crossing in a ferry-boat, the bottom of which was in a rotten condition and fell out. Many persons were carried away by the current and were dashed to pieces against a mill-wheel or drowned in the mill-race. Sixty bodies have already been found, and 100 are missing.

CONVICT'S SUICIDE IN PRISON. The means by which Robert Bullen, the Cornish poacher, sentenced last week to ten years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of a gamekeeper, took his own life in Bodmin Prison, were revealed at the inquest on Saturday. Bullen had been set to sew sacks, and lie secreted several pieces of string about his clothes and then hid 'them in his mattress. These lie knotted together, and in the early hours of Friday morning he moved his table to the cell door, fastened the string to the ventilator, and slid down the side of the table in a position in which he could not be seen by the warder going his rounds. It was not until the cell was entered at ten minutes past six in the morning that Bullen was found hanging from the ventilator, about 7ft. 6in. from the floor. He was quite dead. Nothing unusual was noticed when a warder visited the cell over night and again at half-past three in the morning. The jury returned a verdict of Felo fl, Jt, adding a rider to the effect that no blame attached to the prison officials.

A BELFAST SENSATION. Mr. David Henderson, Director of the Elim and Oliver Homes for Children, in Belfast and at Bally- gowan, County Down, was found dead in bed on Mon- day morning, having been asphyxiated by gas. Mr. Henderson, who was well known in religious and philanthropic circles throughout the United King- dom, had been summoned by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and was to have appeared before the magistrates to answer a charge of cruelty. The affair created some sensation.

ENGLAND HAS TO PAY EXPENSES. Julius Adam, twenty-seven, a Roumanian subject, was taken before Mr. Marsham, at Bow-street Police- court, London, on Monday, for extradition on the charge of embezzling ILBOD, belonging to a firm of paper manufacturers of Bucharest, Roumania. After the alleged embezzlement, the prisoner sailed from Liverpool to New York on board the steam- ship Unibria. When he arrived at New York he had 875f. in his possession, but according to the police evidence the authorities took from him the whole of his money, with the exception of a few dollars he was allowed to retain for personal expenses. In the eyes of the American authorities he was then a pauper, and as such was compelled to return on board the ship by which he had arrived. At Queenstown he was taken charge of by Detective- Inspector Sexton, of Scotland Yard, who took him to Liverpool, and then to London. On the way he told the officer that most of the money lie was said to have embezzled was stolen by someone he did not know from the office in which he workel in Roumauia. Mr. Harry Wilson, solicitor, who represented the Roumanian Government, said the depositions had I not yet arrived, and the prisoner was remanded. It is stated that the money taken from the prisoner at New York will be forwarded to the Roumanian Government, but the English Govern- ment will have to bear all the expenses incurred since his arrival at Queenstown, and those which will hereafter be incurred in the event of the prisoner being returned to Roumania.

DIAMOND KISSES. While a young man named Donmeyer was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes in St. Louis a month ago five valuable diamonds belonging to the Hayeses disappeared. Donmeyer was arrested, but a search failed to reveal the missing jewels. Don- meyer, however, was kept in gaol. A few days ago his mother arrived in St. Louis and saw her son. She was obliged to talk with him through the bars. When he bade her good-bye he kissed her fervently. The mother went to see Mr. Hayes, and to his sur- prise returned the diamonds. She asked him not to prosecute, but he refused the mother's request. It transpired that Donmeyer transferred the diamonds from his own to his mother's mouth when he kissed her.

A FATHER'S RESPONSIBILITY. A child under fourteen, named Isabella Kennedy, has been brought up at Westminster, from the Remand Home, charged with altering hur birth certificat,riie girl, who was born at Dundee, lived with her father and stepmother at South Limbeth. To avoid school attendance the girl tendered a School Board officer a birth certificate, the dates on which in four places had been very cleverly altered. Mr. Burton, for the School Board, said that most serious reports had been received about the conduct of the girl, but her father, who described himself as a smith's hammerman, declined to take the course which would save her, viz., to charge her with being beyond control. The man's objection was that he might be made to suffer in pocket by being obliged to contribute to the child's maintenance. It was a case of terrible neglect on the part of the father. The child was in a most verminous condition when admitted to the Home.—Mr. Horace Smith: I can't send this child to prison, even to save her. It is quite clear that she is neglected, and that her father is trying to evade his responsibility. He should be brought to book in some way, and so I refer the case to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. I will grant a summons against him, and hear the esse. I have no alternative but to discharge the

Su""i>ssful experiments have been made in tha treatment of neuralgia and hysteria with radium at the Salptkriere Hospital in Paris. A severe storm raged in the Eastern States on Sunday, says a New York message, and eight lives were lost by lightning. A yacht capsized in New York Bay during a squall, and five persons on board wer* drowned. A negro who had assaulted a white girl, aged sixteen, has been lynched at Endora, Mississippi. He was mounted on a horse below the tree upor which he was to be hanged, and his victim placec the noose round his neck. The girl, at. a signal from ti ler of th" mob, t: d the horse away, leaving r "e\ Mr. Clement Scott, the well-known dramatic critic, died on Saturday. A youth was offered £8 by a young girl, of Liége, Belgium, to strangle her father, who objected to her sweetheart. He declined the offer. A young deformed Italian, who has madp a small fortune by street begging in Canada, has just been deported. He played an accordion, and was proved to have L400 in his own countrv.

TRANSVAAL WAR LOAN. Mr. Balfour, in a printed answer to Mr. Whitley, lays the Government adheres to Mr. Chamberlain's statement that the arrangements he made in con- nection with the £30,000,000 war contribution were connected with and conditional upon the £35,000,000 Guaranteed Loan. When the time appears opportune for the fulfilment of the conditions under which the arrangement was made, such steps for giving effect to it as may be expedient will be taken.

A CHILD'S PARENTAGE. In the Divorce Court Mr. Justice Barnes has delivered a reserved judgment in the case of Evans v. Evans and Blyth (issue as to the legitimacy of child) which raised a peculiar point of parentage. Surgeon-Major James William Evans (retired from the Indian Army), having obtained a divorce against his wife on the ground of her adultery with Major Herbert nIyth, asked the court to declare that a child, Mary Blyth, otherwise Evans, to whom his wife gave birth on July 1st, 1903, was not legitimate. The child was registered in the name of Blyth, and the father's name was given as that of the co-respondent. There were certain marriage settlements of comparatively large sums of money which depended upon the decision of the court in this issue.—His lordship found that Mpjor Evans was not the father of the child, and gave judgment I accordingly.

STONED AT HER WEDDING. In the course of a preliminary motion in the Dublin Courts in a slander action set down for trial at the Kerry Assizes, some remarkable allegations were made on behalf of Hannah Sullivan, a newly- married woman, who is claiming £1,000 damages from her brother-in-law and his wife for making aspersions on her character. On the occasion of her marriage this year, it was said, a large crowd collected, the aid of the police had to be requisi- tioned, and stones were thrown at her, wounding her severely, while some of her furniture had been destroyed.

HORSE-MUTILATING OUTRAGES. When Mr. Henry Strickland, a horse contractor, entered a field at East Acton early on Monday morning for the purpose of feeding some ponies, he found one of them with an ear missing and another with an ear hanging by a thin shred of flesh. A very sharp instrument had evidently been used by someone standing in the road, who had enticed the ponies to come to the low fence there. The missing ear was found in the road. Two persons were arrested on Tuesday, but were subsequently re- leased. Two stablemen who wounded a mare at Buxton have been at Stafford sentenced to six and nine months' imprisonment respectively.

BLOWN THROUGH A WINDOW. At the premises of Waters and Co., methylated spirit makers, Bateman's-row, Shoreditch, on Tuesday night, a vat containing many hundreds of gallons of naphtha suddenly exploded. The back wall of the factory was blown out, the roof was lifted, and a man named William Alfred Eveson, who was at work on the first floor, was blown through the window. He was terribly burnt.

OLD LADY'S SAD DEATH. A fire occurred on Monday evening at 1, Leaming- ton-villas, Belmont-road, Lewisham. The front room on the first floor was tenanted by a Mrs. Louisa Shaw, who was bedridden and seventy years of age. In some unexplained manner the bed took fire, and when the other inmates of the house, alarmed by a smell of burning, rushed into the room they found the bedding ablaze. Some buckets of water sufficed to extinguish the flames, but Mrs. Shaw had been so terribly burnt that she died soon after her removal to the local hospital.

ASYLUM INMATE'S SUICIDE. The Maidstone coroner has held an inquest at Barming Asylum on a patient named Maynard, aged fifty-three, who was found lying in a bedroom in a pool of blood, with a great gash in his stomach. Questioned by an attendant, he said, "I had a pain in the stomach, and cut it open with a knife." A blood-stained rusty knife was found near by. The man died from loss of blood and peritonitis. The verdict was suicide during temporary insanity.

COLONEL ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. Colonel Bloomfield Gough, late of the 9th Lancers, has been killed at Kelso by being thrown out of his trap through the horse bolting. Mrs. Gough jumped out, and escaped without injury. Culonel Gough served in the Afghan war of 1878- 80, and took part in the march to Kandahar. He also served in the early part of the South African war, being ordered home for refusing to obey an order of Lord Methuen. His personal courage was undisputed, but tie alleged that both his men and horst s were quite unfit for the duty required of them, though he offered to go himself. Colonel Gough asked for a court-martial, but this was not granted.

SENTENCE ON A BANK MANAGER. Major Edward James Smith, V.D., formerly manager of the York City and County Bank, Bridlington, pleaded guilty at Beverley to nine charges of fraud, involving sums that amounted to £2,600. It was stated by the prosecuting counsel that the total defalcations were estimated at about £6,000. Sentence of three years' penal servitude was passed.

WHALER'S LUCKY CATCH. While cruising some distance from Shetland the crew of the whaling steamer Queen Alexandra sighted a fine specimen of the sperm whale. Chase was at once given, and the quarry found to be fully 65ft. long. A harpoon was fired, and obtained a firm hold. The fish dived, and presently reappeared, struggling fiercely. Quite half-an-hour elapsed before it could be killed, the crew of the whaler being at times in considerable peril. It is most unusual for the sperm whale to be caught in these waters. The carcase, one of the most valuable of its kind, was towed to Shetland.

MIT TINY ON A BRITISH VESSEL. A message from Brest reports that the crew of the British steamer Homewood, of Middlesbrough, which is lying at that port, have mutinied. All the men had been drinking, and one of them threatened to strike the captain, and incited the others to revolt. The British Consul obtained the as istance of the gendarmes, and the ringleader was arrested. A brigade of gendarmes kept guard over the v( ssel all nigiit.

CONVICT'S DESPERATE DEED. The story of an exciting outburst of violence by a convict undergoing three years' penal servitude at Borstal Prison was related at Rochester, when (ieorge Williams, fifty-two, was charged with wounding Warder Blandford. Williams was one of a party of convicts who were being marched to Fort Borstal, when he seized a chance of attacking Blandford with his spade. He dealt the warder four blows on the legs and arms. One of them took a piece out of his kneecap, and Blandford was still unable to walk. The prisoner threatened to murder Blandford, and said he would teach him to kick men's dinners into their cells. — Blandford e'enied that he had kicked dinners into the cells, or that, he had seen any other officer do so.—Principal Warder Heselton said that when he went to Bland- ford's assistance eight convicts clung to him and barred his progress. Otherwise the prisoner would have been cut down.—In court the prisoner said his temper overcame him. He complained that five warders beat him with staves after the assault.— lie was sent for trial.

A FALL INTO AN ACID TANK. A terrible accident occurred at the Silicate Paint Works, Riverbank, East Greenwich, on Tuesday night. Three men were standing upon a platform near a large tank containing acid when they were overcome by the fumes, and two of them, Henry Wallis and Alfred Levey, fell in. With great difficulty they were rescued, and were taken to the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, where Levey has since died. The other man is in a serious condition.

Every year in Great Britain some 15,000 deaths are directly due to alcoholic excess. j The Church Society for the Promotion of Kindness to Animals has entered the ranks of the advocates of a tax upon cats. Three men charged at Sutton Coldfield for plying for hire without a licence pleaded "guilty, but innocent." The King given Royal Lodge to Sir Arthur Ellis. It is a delightful house in Windsor Park, close to Cumberland Lodge. There is a slump in locomotive building at Philadelphia, and already 6,000 men have received notice to quit work. Four thousand may shortly join their comrades in idleness. On arriving at Southampton on Saturday, Captain Tyson, of the Carisbrook Castle, completed his 100th voyage from England. The passengers pre- sented him with a purse of sovereigns. At Mayence, Germany, a merchant named Schroder has been sent; ned to fifteen years' imprisonment for having perpetrated more than 100 burglaries and the robbery of money and valuables amounting to over £3,000.

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Since 1883 the P. and O. Company has spent £10,000,000 in shipbuilding. There was a painful incident at a cricket match at Leeds on Saturday between two local teams- Middleton Park and Oulton. A man named Heming- way was batting, and was caught out. Immediately the catch was taken, and before he had time to leave the crease the batsman fell dead. The Imperial Yeomanry School Committee have purchased Alperton Hall, Wembley, and are con- verting it into a school which will be shortly opened. A contribution of Z200 from the surplus of the Suffolk Yeomanry Equipment Fund, raised in 1900, has been received towards the funds of the school. ^■cognition of his services to Japanese troops f of the Pekin Legations, the Japanese ('.overrun nt has conferred upon Mr. Foley, traffic manager of the Imperial railways, the OrJer of the "acred Treasure. When crossing the Southport electric railway !<b> rt Collinge, of the 4t,h Kattalion Royal Welsh • isilii r-, was knockej down by a train, and, hough there was apparently ne electrocution, he ,vas terrible mutilated and killed.