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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 August 1913, Page 3

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Foreign - 9 [BI KLKCTUIU TELKOnAr-H-COPrniflfll. Lpib runs ahouutiaz ' (deceived This Day, 9.30 a.m.; London, August 3. As the outcome of poverty, u brother of Tom Gallon, novelist, ehot hie wife and child dead and then committed suicide. near Great Misscnden. BIUTISH POLITICS. The Nation states that tht report of the committee of en- « quiry into the land system is pvae tieally complete. Mr Lloyd George opens a campaign in September, and Mr Asquitk will forward it. The basis of the Liberal policy will bo the minimum wage, the creed of which will be giving to the farmer of the means of recouping himself by adjustment of rent and securing of tenure. This is impossible without the. State's assistance. NEGOTIATING Yull PEACE Bucharest, August o. The Bulgarian counter proposals claim Kratevo, Kochana, iiadovista, Strumnitza, Doiran, Seres, Drama, Deniidhisiar and Kavala. Bulgaria refuses to grant compensation for private losses. Both urecce and Servia offered a modification of the frontier, but not to the extent of Bulgaria's demand. Vienna, Angus : S. if is considered in diplomatic circles that the latest demands are excessive, and there is little. hope of an agreement unless they are modified.

A HOLOCAUST. Athens, August : .!. The Bulgarians sent live thousand infantry, live hundred cavalry, and three battalions to i , ut oil' one thousand Greeks at Mahomia. A Greek soldier compulsorily serving with the Bulgarians managed to advise the Greeks, who despatched reinforcements to Nahomia and caught the Bulgarians between two fires, practically annihilating them. Constantinople, August l>. A mass meeting of thirty thousand, at Adriannplo. resolved to make every sacrifice not k> yield the city to the Bulgarians. PANAMA CANAL. Xew York, August •!. The press generally declines to occe|)t the British explanation that Great Britain's refusal to participate in the Panama exposition is due to commercial, not diplomatic reasons. The New York Sun states there is an uncomfortable suspicion that the explanation is designed to save the necessity of calling attention to the existence of resentment over the tolls question, and that it is nol surprising that England is disinclined to participate in a celebration which virtually is a slap in the :t';ice. England had not lacked patience, and had not used Jingo talk, (feeling rather pained surprise; but when, after five months, the new administration had made no attempt to deal with the question, England nationally feels she has not been treated rightly.

me -London uuservers ..\ew York correspondent states that behind the perturbation at England's attitude a fear prevails that other nations will follow her example, and the result will be that the exposition will not become a world's fair.