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Show Foreign News in Brief ) By Associated Press. ROME, June i. King George of Greece arrived here today in the strictest incognito in-cognito to confer with King Victor Emmanuel Em-manuel regarding tho Cretan situation and to urge that Italy, as one of the four protecting powers of the loland, assist in the ronlization of the Cretan Ideals. GENEVA. Switzerland. June 4. The Young Kgyptlan committee today Issued a violent, protest against the sentiments expressed by Theodore Roosevelt in his speech at tho Guild hall In London. In which he expressed the opinion that Great Britain should show a firmer hand In Egypt. The committee declares that tho speech was an Insult not only to Ihi-rope Ihi-rope and Egypt but lo the whole civilised civi-lised world. ROME, Juno i. Tho pope recoived in private audience lodny Monslgnor Kennedy, Ken-nedy, rector of tho Atnericun college In Roidk, who presented to his holiness a group f American sailors from thy United Stales cruiser. New York, which bs anchored In the bay of NupJea. Tha pontiff urged the men of tho navy to' observe ob-serve disclplino and servo their country loyally, being brave as well as religious. LONDON. June 4. Tho window placed in the village church at Prlncc-town Prlncc-town as a. memorial for American prisoners prison-ers of the war of 1812 was unveiled today. to-day. The church stands on Dartmoor, a bleak stretch of land in the south part of Avonshirc, and near the historic Dartmoor Dart-moor prison where the American sailors were confined. It was recently restored by Americans, who also purchased the memorial window. LONDON. June 4. An army airship mado a surprise reconnolssanco over London during the night. Leaving Aldorshot at 1130 o'clock Inst, evening, tho craft started for London in the teeth of a stiff breeze. It reached St. Paul's two liours later and circled over the cathedral at a height or 1000 feet. Returning, Re-turning, the airship arrived at tho bar-nicks bar-nicks at Aldorshot at 3 o'clock this morning. The distance between Alder-shot Alder-shot and London la about thirty-five miles, and tho time made by tho airship first against and then racing with the wind, is considered excellent. BOMBAY, .Tunc 4. Miss ai. Williams and Howard Bishop", missionaries of the American Baptist society, were drowned while sea-bathing in tho gulf of Cam-bay, Cam-bay, at Bulsar. north of this city. Bishop lost his life in attomptlng to save his companion. The bodies were recovered. |