They beat the man, tore his clothes, broke his machine, and ill-treated him until the men and boys from the mill, who had been watching the riot with laughter, thought it was time to interfere, and rescued the agent from the angry women.
There is nothing gentle or feminine about the English factory girl.
The Sultan of Turkey has sent a demand to the powers that the ten thousand rifles seized on board a Greek ship shall be turned over to him. These arms were taken during the early part of the blockade of Crete, and have been held by the powers.
Abdul Hamid has also issued a protest against the trial of a number of his subjects in the courts of Crete. He demands that they shall be sent over to Turkish courts and tried by Turkish judges instead of by the representatives of the powers.
He seems to be beginning his interference in Cretan matters.
A telegram from Christiania, Norway, states that news of Professor Andrée has just been brought from Spitzbergen.
The nature of the news is not given, but it has been brought by the crew of a ship which was wrecked in the Arctic Seas, and who have just made their way to Spitzbergen.
Spitzbergen is one of a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Sweden, and east of Greenland.