HOME AND FOREIGN

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14842, 6 December 1913, Page 11

HOME AND FOREIGN

(By Cable. —Press Association—Copyright.) THiIEE GREAT SIGHTS. . LONDON, December 4. Addressing the Canada Club, Mr Donald Mac Master, 1v1.P., stated that three of the greatest sights witnessed during the Empire tour were the presence of the battleship New Zealand at Vancouver, the salute from tho Commonwealth floet when crossing the Australian Bight, and the march of eighteen thousand radots with tho swing of regulars through the streets of Melbourne. TO BE DEPORTED. LONDON, December 4. Joseph Josephson. a Russian master builder, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment and recommended for deportation for chastising apprenticed girl typists, asjed sixteen and eighteen respectively, by stripping and smacking them. Josephson previously served ten years for administering a drug and two years for frauds. A RUSSIAN CONCESSION. ST. PETERSBURG, December 4. The Government has granted Vickers, Son and Maxim, in conjunction with tho leading banks, a concession to establish extensive gun works at Tsaritsvn. The concesion extends for fifteen years. Orders aggregating £1,000.030 barve already been placed with the firm.