TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 August 1912, Page 3

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

[BY ELECTRIC TBLKQUAPH-COPYRIOnTj fl'Klt PIUSSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This. Day, 11 a.m ) AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIALS: A LONDON CANARD. LONDON, August 27. A correspondent in the Daily News (Liberal) alleges that the Commonwealth is faced with the" necessity of prosecuting twenty thousand boys for evading drill. It ifc also alleged that officers are unable to maintain discipline and threaten to resign if the boys arc not prosecuted. The correspondent also alleges that suggestions %*iro being made that members, of the Australian Freedom League should be prosecuted for sedition THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY. LONDON, August '27. The Times publishes a series of articles detailing the growth of Australian naval opinion. The writer asserts that the visit of the American fleets started a desire hitherto unspoken, into expression. The Pall Mall Gazette, commenting on the articles, says that they will act as a corrective of a .somewhat widely held British view that the Australians are less imperially inclined than the Canadians and New Zealamlcrs by preferring their own navy to contributing to the British navy. THE PROTESTANT COVENANT. LONDON, August 27. The Protestant Churches in Ulster have agreed to a joint service in the Cathedral at Belfast in connection with the'signing of the "Covenant." The movement is all the more re-' markable owing to the longstanding differences between the Episcopal and the Free Ohurelies. TO THE AEGEAN SEA. LONDON, August 27. Neuter advices state that British and French warships have been dispatched to Samos to prevent the landing of Cretan filebusters seeking to procure the annexation of the island. IX MOROCCO. PARIS, August 27. The nowspapers fear that El Glawi surrendered the Frenchmen to El Hiba under pain of death. SOUTH AFRICA'S PROBLEM. CAPE TOWN, August 27. General Hertzog's first pronouncement since he became Native [Minister advocates segregation as a solution of the native problem. AMONG PIRATES. HONG KONG, August 27. Police seized a pirate junk at Macao and arrested four persons. They recovered a qantity of jewellery and loot which was recently stolen from Dumbell Island. CHINA'S ABLEST Jf AN. PEKIN, August 27. Sim Y'at.Sen, addressing the leading political societies, advocated the abatement of party strife, and urged the construction of new administrative machinery. He insisted on in strong central government. Yuan Shih -kai, he declared, was the ablest mini available, and he urged his re-appointment to the Presidency after tho elections.