TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 November 1912, Page 3

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

[BT BLBfTRIC TKLKQBAPH-COPraiGHIJ [PBK PREBB ASSOCIATION.] , (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) INDIAN PATRIOTISM: DREADNOUGHTS FOR NAVY. LONDON, November 29. Indian rulers, Princes and nobles aro conferring at Bombay with a view to presenting throo superDrcadnoughts and nine armoured cruisers to the Imperial Navy. It is suggested that the vessels should be stationed in the- Red Sea, the Meditcrannean, and the Indian Ocean. The movement originated during the visit of two leading Rajputana Princes. The Right Hon. W. S. Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) when first sounded, considered the schemo impracticable, but sixty Rajput-ana Princes and many others, as well as the Indian people, responded to the suggestion to contribute.

Tho United States Health Department has adopted a scheme of Dr. Harkor, of Sydney, University, for the fumigation and disinfection of ships. AX INDIAN TRAGEDY. CALCUTTA, November 29. Mrs Clark, wife of an officer, was found dead witli her hoad frightfully shattered. It was first supposed that it was the result of an act of burglary, but subsequently the husband and a widow, named Fulhnan, together with a- native servant, were arrested. Fnlhnan's husband died a year ago from the effects, it is supposed, of arsenical poisoning. THE TZARVITCH. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 29. It is stated that the Tzarvitch is .suffering from a skin deficiency, similar to tho Duke of Albany. It is uncertain whether his illness is duo to defective ossification o rto tuberculosis trouble. JAP AFFAIRS. TOKIO. November 20. The struggle over the War Office's proposal to establish a permanent military division at Korea is bocoming a question of popular Government versus militarism and bureaucracy. Hitherto the Ministers of War and Marino have been responsible to tho Enrjwor, and not the Premier. Supporters of rigid economy oppose the Korean proposal. THE NEAR EASTERN WAR. ■ROME, November 29. A message from the provisional Albanian Government to Italy states that tho Albanian aim is to live in peace with the Ualkan States, and to become an element of stability among them. The Albanians aro convinced that the States will extend a. friendly welcome and protection to them.

ATHENS.. November 29. General Sapountzaki, of tho headquarters' staff, is attacking the Janina fort.s. Three of the chief forts have thirty-three nine centre-metre Krupps' guns. There is a long line of smaller forts. The. Turkish garrison, which numbers 20,000, is under Essad Pasha, and has boon heavily reinforced by Albanians. BELGRADE, Nov. 29. With tho capture of Dibra, where the Moriinstir troops rallied, tho whole of Macedonia is now .subdued. Two more Turkish regiments have surrendered to the Servians. SOFT A, November 29. Tho ftulgarians are 1100 yards from AdYianople. Tho Consuls have hoisted a flag to protect the Consulates. The- garrisons for various causes has been reduced bv linlf..

SUFFRAGETTE RAID. MAIL MATTER DESTROYED LONDON, November 2U. The latest Suffragette raid has been on tho city pillar boxes, into which acid has been dropped, and a quantity of letters destroyed. Tho Suffragettes chose the letter boxes in tho vicinity of tho Stock Exchange and Mark Lane, the acids destroying many cheques, share certificates and contracts.

Similar outrages occurred in the West End, and at .Finchley, C'amborwell, and Islington, whore four hundred letters were damaged. In some cases the acids were contained in corkless bottles and phials labelled "Votes for Women." Sometimes tho troubles was only discovered by piles of letters breaking into flames which tho officials quickly smothered. Occasionally, paraffin rags and lighted matches wore found in tho post-boxes. The staffs at the sorting office of the General Post Office spent hours in deciphering tho damaged addresses.

Ten letter boxes in the centre of Hirmingham were smothered in tar and varnish. Similar wholesale destruction occurred at Nottingham.

The outrages are apparently the Suffragettes' reprisals for being outwitted in their attempts to interfere with tho Prime Minister (Mr Asquith) on Friday <at Ilkestoue.

At Newcastle hundreds of letters were damaged by ink being poured in the boxes.