TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 August 1912, Page 3

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD.

[BV ELECIRIO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT J [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] • (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) FLOODS IN THE MIDLANDS. LONDON, August 25. Disastrous floods are reported from the Midlands. Tho fanners of Yorkshire are abandoning hay crops, and allowing villagers to take it away for pig-sty© bedding. Salisbury plain, where ten thousand troops arc encamped, is water-logg-ed. "ONE STILL STRONG MAN." LONDON, August 25. Lord Aberdeen, has refused to release Leigh and Evans, the suffragettes who wore imprisoned at Dublin for attempted incendiarism. They are being forcibly fed. A LIGHT-lIEARTED MURDERER BERNE, August 25. A police clog tracked a murderer to a ballroom at Alfstetten, where the accused man confessed to the crime of having murdered a young girl at the commencement of the same ball. The crime was due to jealousy. The murderer left the I bo-dy some distance away, returned to the ball, and resumed dancing. MACHINE GUNS FOR AIRSHIPS BERLIN, August 25. Germany is equipping airships with machine guns. DEAR MEAT. BERLIN, August 25. A wide-spread meat boycott is going on in many towns of Wurteniberg, owing to extravagant prices. Tho Tageblatt says tho movement protesting against the exclusion of foreign meat and cattle is extending. TURKISH AFFAIRS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 25. AI i Dhanish has accepted the portfolio of the Minister for the Interior, and Senator Halim that of Justice. Tho garrison of Scutari repulsed a. Malissori attack.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT. BRUSSELS, August 25. A train was derailed at Chateline.au, and went over an embankment. Several passengers wore injured. AN ARAB RAID. TEHERAN, August 25. Tribesmen rushed Bandenahbas, and raiided the premises of several British subjects. NEWS FROM FRANC®. PARIS, August 25. . A pleasure boat containing seven postmen was upset at Onival, on the Somme, and four of the men were drowned. Lieutenant Dobu rendered some remarkable services to the French I troops in Morocco by neroplaning five hundred miles in six days and maintaining the communication of French posts and columns between Fez, Rabat and Casa Bla rim. Yasem, in a message to President Fallieros, expressed his resolve to complete the entente, and by friendly co-operation with Franco pacify and develop the Empire. ITALIAN EMIGRATION. ROME, August 25. A decree has beft'n issued by the Government, permitting the resumption of emigration to the Argentina.

ROBBERY OF A COUNT. A ROME, August 25. Count Sormani's residence at MiInn was burgled, and four thousand pounds' wortn ot txwfif. n:'.i fivj thousand pounds' worth of jewellery stollen. THE WARLIKE ALBANIANS. ATHENS, August 25. Albanians have occupied Berat, and o inarching on Avlona. A NEGRO'S CRIUF XEW YORK, August 25. At Springfield, Illinois, a nogro chauffeur .named Johnson murdered Ruth Powers and then committed suicide. For a. while there was every prospect of a repetition of the bloody race riots of four years ago, as the people did not believe that Johnson had committed suicide. The Coroner, Mr Rhodes, averted trouble by announcing that people could view the body of the murderer. LATE GENERAL BOOTH. BODY LIES IN STATE. LON'DON, August 25. General Booth's 'body lay in state at Clapton yesterday, streams of visitors, passing by to obtain a, last view of the groat loader. A guard of six men and six women, holding flags, watches by the coffin. A great Army service will be held at Olympia. on Wednesday, and on Thursday there will be a. procession through London. "