Additional Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 March 1913, Page 4

Additional Cables.

(Sydney Sun). fcJOJIN AMU U LIST 1C S U ICID Ifl. LONDON, March 2. A man named T.hriistel, aged 18, an engine driver, was i'ouncl dead, hanging to the bed-rail in hits room in Doncaistet- a day or two ago. Deceased wan a magnilk-ent specimen ot manhood. His mother gave evidence that the young man was a somnambulistic subject, and she believed that he committed suicide while in a delirium in his fsleep. The medical testimony- supported tliis theory and the jury accepted it. BURGLAR'S BIG HAUL. The palace of the Grand Duchess I'avlovna. at St. Petersburg, has been visited by burglars, who got away with L'IO.OOO worth of jewels. RUSSIA'S HUGE FORCE. Some of the German papers are enraged at the meeting of MY Winston Churchill. .First Lord of the Admiralty, and M. Bamliii, tho French Minister for Marine, and assert that it was arranged and held with the object of arriving at an undorstanding regarding the distribution of the n.iivies of Franco and Kngland. Tho French papers state that thu day of (.ho meeting will be remembered :is an historical clay, despite the fact tinat an official French .'" ote announces that tho mooting wib> duo to fortuitous circumstances, and not to design. There is a {j;roat deal of entlnii-i----'i.->iti in (Jeinianv over the <|iiostion of increased armament*, but it is iVaretl tliat monopolies will have to be created to raise a portion of the money required. The Palis Temps states that the Russian effective army lias reached tho huge total of 1.800.000 men.