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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 March 1913, Page 2

"By Independent."

Cabied News From Abroad. (Sydney Sun (Special.) SIM ASQlVril HECKLED. LONDON', March 13. Suvera 1 Scottish members in Xlio House of Commons to-day heckled die Prime .Minister oil the question ot Home Rule for Scotland. Mr Ay.juith replied that it was open to members under the procedure of the House to have the matter discussed. ADMIRAL DOUGLAS DEAD. Admiral Sir Archibald Lucius Ruuylas is dead. Rom a Canadian, the deceased sailor saw much .service in the Royal Navy. lie was ashore with the naval brigade up the Congo and Gambia rivers of AiViea. in 18H0, was com-mander-in-chief of the North American and West Indian stations from lUO2 to 1.5)01, and from 1001 to 1907 was in charge at Portsmouth. lie also had the distinction of being Director of the Japanese Imperial Naval College from 1873 to 187"). and wore among his many decorations ■ i.lie lirst-class .jewel of the Japanese cider of the Rising Sun. TURKS' SUGGEST ION I'OR PEACE. It is .stated in Constantinople that the Committee of Union and Progress has informed the Grand Vizier that they now agree to the surrender of Adrianople by the Government, on condition that the garrison is allowed to inarch out with the honours of war. They will further accept the Enos < —Gulf of Iniada frontier, provided t l '" Government I'ef'usivs the war in'omnity asked by the Allies. Mildia is on the Rlack Sea, GO miles norlh of Constantinople. The. Gulf of Iniada is about 10 miles further north. Rodosto is on the Sea of Marmora. 75 miles wc-i of the (••ipital. while Enos is on the open oast, and is a Mediterranean port little to the north of Cape Paxi. Turkey's proposed line from the Gulf - if Tniad:* to Enos would give her about tliroe times as much territory •>s Rulgaria. according to a recent cable, is prepared to concede bv plnc'ng the boundary between Midia .and Rodosto. while the midway course suggested, would, roughly speaking. the difference. Bulgaria's demarcation would mean the taking from Turkey of the whole of Galli'l:,li. and the Dardanelles, as well is such important inland towns as Airohol. Ainad.jik. Malgann. Tve'han. Lule Rurgas. Visa, and many 'tillers.

WHITE .SLAVE TRAFFIC. At a largely attended meeting on n!<-' wiiito slave i|ii(tition hold yesterday at the Little I liuatic in London. ! or<l illoughby Do Broke presid'•l. and .said that a mass ot evidence .'id been c dlocted proving that the "•il was nourishing extensively all ' or the country. Other speakers reported recent in--taneos ol girls who had been kidnapped in motor cars, and the meeting urged the appointment of a Roy■i Commission. MSW MFXICAX HFGLMS. Groat liiitain has ionnally recog-i-i'd tlio f i licit a Administration in •'exiro. General Poriirio Diaz, formerly ™ ie.sidoiit ol Mexico, has left Cairo f :r his native, land. In an interview with a press representative, before his departure. General Diaz strongly disapproved •i the killing of President Mjadero. i|e declared that the present" situation in -Mexico was grave. ihe ox-President added that wlieil to losigiied in May. 1911, specie to •he .amount of £1.000.000 was in the I'liea.siiry. but that uhen Madcro vas deposed only C9OOO was tWo. AVTURLESS R KCOimS. tireless messages despatched froin Aey West, the l;nited States naval ■ lation in Honda. have been picked ip at Cairo, over 7000 miles away. Ibis breaks all previous records in ong distance wireless telegraphy. Til K OPIUM CUJLSE. Ihe Cliineso Government lias roliie.sted the Voting Men's Christian Vssoci.ition and other religious bodes to purchase all the opium they ■an and destroy it. MIGHTY STELLA It UXIVEI^E. In a lecture before the Jloyal In- I titute oi Great Britain, Professor f 'all I urner. Sullivan Professor of */■ Astronomy at Oxford I'liiveisify, said 'f. that the majority *>f the stars r,ceu ' " : U'le ineiiibers of Ihe great stellar \vsteni, which, in proportion to tlio solar sysfem. was as the earth'to A football. M ISCI JI KF-MA IvIXG PAPERS. Ihe German Government lias administered a sharp rebuke to cernewspapers that are dedared ql to have been lamenting international trouble by the publication of highly provoking articles. I he Government lias also disavowed the attack made by the Cologne ■ Gazette on l< ranee, and the paper's relerence to that country as "Tho European mischief-maker." - According to the statement issued \ by the Government the situation has improved.