TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 July 1912, Page 3

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

[IIY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT] [I'ER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] 1 Received This Day, 10.5 u.io.) THE LAND QUESTION : Mlt | LLOYD-GEORGE'S CAMPAIGN. ADVERSE LIBERAL CRITICISM. LONDON, July 2-1. The Times compares tho present situation of the Liberals with that of the Unionists in 19011, when Mr Joseph Chamberlain resigned in order to carry on a campaign in tho country with Mr Ha Hour's sanction. The question is, says tho journal, whether Mr Llovd-George will resign in order to try to win the election on his land policy. Mr Lloyd-George, in a letter to Mr Murphy, Liberal candidate for Crewe, expressed the hope that the election will encourage the Government to the further task of freeing the land from the system of bondage, monopoly and privilege.

Mr 0. Henry (Liberal member for Wellington. Shropshire) addressing his constituents, said that he regarded the land taxation proposals propounded by a certain group of Liberals as fantastical and unlikely to receive the support of tho majority. KOREANS AND JA?. PRTNCE. VIENNA, July 2-1. Advices from St. Petersburg state that the police discovered certain Koreans in Russia who conspired to assassinate Prince Ktasura. THE EUROPEAN TENSION. POLICY' OI' 1 THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. PARIS, July 21. The journal Lo Matin states that at Germany's instigation Italy is laying down six super-Dreadnoughts, of which two will bo begun by the end of 1912, and that Austria-Hun-gary will also lay down three.

APACHIuS SENTENCED. An Apache named Saurct, son of General Saurct, has been sentenced to live years' imprisonment, atDotiai. for a series of assaults and robberies. A man named Coronde, who maimed a person called Delachappelle, belonging to an aristocratic family, has been sentenced to two years. THE SUFF.RAGETTES. LONDON, July 2-1. Doctor Ethel tSmyth has been arrested for complicity in the alloyed suffragette attempt to burn the Rt. Hon. Lewis Marcuurt's mansion at Nuneaton, for which Helen Craggs was recently arrested. THE ATTEMPT ON LORD KITCHENER. A. COWARDLY NATIONALIST BUFFI AN. CAQvO, July 21. Further details are published with regard to the attempt by Nationalists to assassinate prominent Europeans. including Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. The newspapers publish confessions in which the plotters declare that they were foiled at every step owing to the presence of police. Arabi states that he was waiting at the station to shoot Lord Kitchener, but strict supervision suggested that his intentions were known. Thus he was thwarted. Tfc was impossible to approach Lord Kitchener when he entered the car. bo Arabi ran and stood at the outer gate. The car passed so quickly, and the aide-de-camp, Mr Fitzgerald, looked at him so intently that he felt as if ho had paralysed him.