Second Edition British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 July 1913, Page 3

Second Edition British and Foreign.

(bt klkcthio telkgrai'h—coptiiight] [P*R PRIBB ABBOCIATION.] (Received This Bay, 8.50 a.m.) LOX.DOX, July It. A "correspondent writing to the Pall Mall Gazotte asks what tlio Board of Trade and tlio Port of London Authority are doing to prevent smallpox being brought to England by means of incoming mails and produce. King Ferdinand lias cabled to the London Evening- News absolutely denying tlio reported outrages on Greeks and Servians. He says that these stories are circulated to creato a bad impression. The population of Thrace, ho says, enjoyed, without respect to nationality, conipleto liborty. He admits a number of isolated arrests were made of anti-Bul-garian spies <and propagandists, but on the other hand lie declares tlio Bulgarians were subjected to systematic persecution at the hands of Greeks. Salonika prisons are full of innocent persons. Many woro transported to the Aegean Islands before the outbreak of hostilities. The King assorts that Servians wore guilty of similar cruelties.