Second Edition TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 June 1913, Page 3

Second Edition TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

[uy Ki.Kt rmc Tn.Ec;u.H , u-coi'Yisr(i!!i , j [run fit ess AsaoriATio:. ] commonwealth. (Received This Day. 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, .June 1(>. The Commonwealth's Savings Bank Department has been inaugurated. Sir George Reid explained its advantages to emigrants, who uoulu he enabled to deposit their money so that it would earn three per cent, for them while they were at sea. .Hid then have it transmitted to Australia free o] charge. ••NAILED TO TIIK CGCXTFR." Ihe II mi. Mr Asquith, in reply to Colonel Archer Slice, in the House ot Coiunnuis. said that it-was untrue that Viscount Eli bank had iu- . vested party funds in the Moxic.au Eagle Oil Company. He also denied that the Mexican Company had any contractual ivlatio-is with tV Oove: nnient. A "CALL TO SERYiCK. •'A R IS, ,1 nne lii. Molls. Etieiine. Minister of War. ill a speech at Renins, declared that Germany s sudden army increase indicated she had designs on France, and it would be necessarv to adopt trienniuin service if Frenchmen did not want to become Germany's vassals and satellites. (Received This Day !> f, m .) earthqi'a kk<. j BKLGRADK. .June lii.

Several shocks of earthquake 1 m•.-= 1(,,t Ternorn. and snbterr;,li,>n,i were l| ( .., n | throughout the day. Great f >;uii<was caused, churches and othc buddings Mere i,:d|y dan,.aged. and many iionses mad;' uninhabitabK A number o! deaths were caused. ' due to falling masonry. 3|' ( ,st of the bakeries wore destroved, and hread had to he obtained from neighbouring villages.

AX IXTEI'XATIOXAI, COMEDY. ( BEI i XlO. J line Ki. "u ing to the peculiar geographical situation of Basle. the dyers mm •strike belong to three nationalities, and troops o| throe Swiss -States, totalling five regiments. are -engaged i" maintaining order. The chief anxiety ot the authorities is to prevent- the Swiss froups from entering Germany, and the (ierman troops from -entering Switzerland. Crowds ol' twelve thousand stoned the police. .and the latter Mere compelled to use sabres. AEROXAUT'S RECORD. Y IEXXA, .June Ki. A I< roncli aviator, named Per re you, -with two passengers, attained « height of 10,430 feet. This forms a highest record. WILL SEE A .MOW WORLD. POME, June l(j. Emmanuel has released the Sicilian hrigand chief, Guioseppe I'errar, who lias been imprisoned at Anoona for half a conturv. "DOWX POTS AXI) PAX.S." LOX'DOX, June 1(5. The Daily Express states th.it .married women all over the countrv are being urged to join the Homemakers [In ion, started lately at Croydon for the purpose of assisting husbands to obtain lietter wages, seeming a lair .share of the husband's earnings, ami protesting against had conditions of homo life, however caused. The union relies largely (as its final weapon) on a policy of "down pots and pans " the troubled east.

- BELGRADE, J,me ](). Tin; Cabinet Ims resigned, I Jt .; U o um\ illing to lace tlie responsibility of accepting the C'zar of Russia's arbitration. The latest Indications are tlinfc the Ministry will be invited to remain in office. SOFIA, Jnne 111 Mir, tlie semi-official newspaper, explains tliat the Cucschofr Cabinet resigned as a protest against tlm Alhos' disloyal acts. The new -Ministry's programme embodies the views of all parties, and aims at accomplishing Bulgaria's duty to Maeodonia as lorinnlated in King Ferdinard's reply to the Czar.