British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1913, Page 3

British and Foreign.

[by ILECritIC tBLEORAPH-COPS bight] [PHR L'RBSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) THE MADRAGETTES. LONDON, February 23. Suffragettes cut a largo numbci of telegraph wires near Newcastle. The Observer suggests that all politicians should agree not to support nnv Suffrage Hill while militancy continues. TOIvIO, Fobruary 23. All ministers attended a meeting of the Sciyukai party. The Promier declared he would follow the party's platform, and also pledged himself to adopt Saionji's policy. THE WAR. SOFIA, Fobruary 23. The Minister of Finance has issued a statement that payment ot an indemnity will be an essential factor at the conclusion of peace. Tliis is rendered necessary me a result of tho resumption of war, and because the annexed provinces have Wn so devastated and depopulated <as not to afford sufficient resources to meet the financial burdens: als 1 ) because tho allies national ecoriomv has been seriously affected. TURKTSTI bTftiCESS. CONSTANTINOPLE. Fob .23, Tho Turks claim that they twice repulsed tho Bulgarians in the vicinity of Hudeinkui. It is also report ed that tho Montenegrins arb no longer able to continue the wsir. VIENNA. February 23. A Bulgarian aeroplane, pilotod by a, Russian lieutenant, feTl into Adrianope. Tho aviator was 'mprisoned. PERILS OF THE ATR. BERLIN, February 23. A military balloon, landing near Mots, exploded, but the three officers who were aboard were unhurt. ERUPTION AT KAMSCHATKA. ST. PETERS 131) KG. VcE. 23. Berezovtiki volcano, in Kamschatka, is erupting cinders over a radius of ten kilometres. DOWAGER, EMPRESS DEAD. I'EKTN. February 23 Tho dowager Empress's death -S supposed to be due to appendicitis. The rumours of suicide have heo" disproved. The Now Zealand Herald, in commenting editorially on recont fatal accidents at railway crossings, says that level crossings in cities and on frequented roads should not be permitted in these days of engineering, and under no circumstances should a crossing bo placed where lapproaefiing trains cannot bo plainly seen, or where adequate warning signals arc not installed. Enough lives have teen needlessly lost at <tangerous level crossings to justify the public in demanding more consideration from a department supposed to tio concerned for the public interests.