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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 12, 1907

— Report comes of a serious revolt among the natives of the Kongo Free State. They have everywhere refused to do the work that is demanded instead of taxes.

— Rioting strikers at Antwerp have set fire to the docks, causing a damage of more than $2,000,000. One policeman is dead, and several citizens are seriously hurt, from mob violence. The militia has been called out.

— Spreading of the rails near Kanawha Falls, W. Va., September 2, caused a wreck resulting in the death of five persons. Eleven others were severely injured; six were killed and twenty injured at Caledon, Ontario, the third; and on the sixth twelve persons were killed and as many more injured at Norris, Iowa.

— The following is an official statement of the loss of life and damage caused by the recent floods in Japan: killed, 348; injured, 70; missing, 173; buildings destroyed, 1,337; partially destroyed, 1,376; washed away, 3,142; flooded, 173,339; embankments broken, 1,570; bridges washed away, 976. Rice and other crops suffered heavily in the flooded districts, but it is believed that the rice crop of the whole country will be slightly above the average.

— More than a thousand Hindus were mobbed and driven from Bellingham, Wash., September 5. Six were so roughly handled that they were taken to hospitals, and 400 were sheltered in the jail and city hall, while the rest betook themselves to the British Columbian frontier. Race prejudice against them is the cause. Most of these Hindus were employed in the mills. All these are English subjects, and the matter is being placed before the British authorities.

— The Federal grand jury of Jamestown, N. Y., has returned indictments against the Standard Oil Company, the New York Central Railroad, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, charging these companies with violating the interstate commerce law either by accepting or by granting rebates on shipments of oil from Olean, N. Y., to points in Vermont. The maximum penalty if convicted on all the counts would be $876,000. Last month the same grand jury returned similar indictments against the same corporations with counts sufficient to make it possible, in case of conviction, for the judge to impose fines amounting to more than $18,000,000.

— The Moors again attacked the French, September 2, but were repulsed with a loss of fifty men from their force of about 5,000, while the French loss was seven killed and about fifteen wounded. France and Spain have decided to occupy the littoral ports of Morocco with their own forces, and establish police organizations. This decision results from the official announcement from the Moroccan government that it can not insure the safety of the European instructors of the international police force, which under the terms of the Algeciras convention, was to be composed of Moors. All the powers except Germany signatory to this convention have acceded to this plan, and it is expected Germany will agree to it.