British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 May 1912, Page 4

British and Foreign.

\nr ELICIBIO TSLS6BAPH-COPYBI6HT.] IPBR PRIM ASSOCIATION. 1 KITCHENER AND THE NAVY. LONDON, May 23. Renter's Malta correspondent says that it in stated in well informed | quarters that Lord Kitchener emphatically opposes the withdrawal of a single warship from the Mediterranean, and insists on a warship being stationed on the Egyptian coast. He is starting for Malta to confer with Mr Asquith and Mr Churchill. TOM MANN'S IMPRISONMENT. Mr Ramsay Macdonakl, in the House of Commons, asked for Tom Mann's release, or his treatment as a. first-class prisoner, on the ground that Mann merely expressed a general opinion as was daily expressed by tho churches. .Mr Macdonakl also urged that Malatesta, who was a, few days ago ordered to be deported, be not expelled. Sir BuTus Isaacs, K.C.. emphasised the fact that the publication of the letter urging soldiers not to shoot strikers was intended to have consequences and was not a case for nominal punishment in the absence of an expression of regret or promise not to repeat tho offence.

PREMIER TO SPEAK IN IRELAND. Mr Asquith speaks at Dublin on July 18th., Mr Redmond presiding. IMPERIAL TRADE COMMISSION. Mr Scely, in the House of Commons, said that the first meeting of tho Imperial Trade Commission would be hekron June 13. f HEADSTRONG STRIKERS. The Labour Council has passed a resolution repudiating the proposed one day strike, which is calculated to prejudice the cause of tho imprisoned men and bring the whole industrial movement into contempt. The resolution also regretted that affiliated unions had participated in tho agitation bofor econsulting the Council. AUSTRIAN SUFFRAGETTES. VIENNA, May 23. During suffrage demonstration riot's at Pesth two rioters were killed and 63 injured. Seven policemen were severely injured.