Serious mandations have occurred in the whole district north of Termonde due to a violent gale and the rushing in of the tidal waters of the River Scheldt. Nearly 7,000 acres of land, inhabited by 10,009 people, are under water. The out-Took looks black in contemplation of the high spring-tides expected on December 29, coupled with the hopelessness of damming up the A message from Kabul states th the situation around the capital improving and the ith is now quiet. The rebels are at least 20 miles from the capital although reinforcements are moving wards them.
During the week-end 54 Indian and foreign women and children. have been evacuated by air and! the evacuations are ely to be complete by one more trip—Reute Commynications Maintained London, Dec. 21. Reuter learns that the Britis Government is in daily communica tion with the Legation at Kabul. Everyone in the Legation sell and the situation in Kabul is quicter.|and the Domi The troops who had risen have retired to a certain distance fro. the capital.
Jan. 1.
The Afghan Legation i London Tokyo, Dec. 28.
Mr. Tsuneo Matsudaira, formers Ambassador at Washington, left jis morning for Kobe, from which place he will sail on the Atsuta Mara for England on January 3 take up the post of Ambassador te the Court of St. James.
'A large mumber of notabilities, in.
ling the whole of the stof af} British Embassy, gathered 2¢! the station to bid the Ambassador Wasitserox, Jan. 2: Department announced to-day that a treaty between the United States! on of Canada has been signed for the construction of works on the Niagara River, in the! neighbourhood of the famous falls, to maintain and improve the scenic Leauty of the falls and the rapids. on Mine. Hanau's information, diss covered securities tv the value of 1,600,000 franes in her bath-room.—
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