Second Edition TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1913, Page 2

Second Edition TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD

HY ILBOTIUC TELKGHAPH—COPTTiIUHT] fI'SR I'HESH ASSOCIATION.] (Received 10.0 a.m.) M 103)1 ('AL COXUUESS. London, August G. The J nternational Medical Congress has been opened in Ihe Albert Hall. Eight thousand doctors were present. Many delegates wore academic gowns. Prince. Arthur of ('onnaught. in welcoming 1 the delegates 011 beha 11' of King (Jeorgc V., recalled the fact that I)r Pasteur's discoveries were a feature of the IS.SI Congress, but lite Kontgen lays and radium had furnished the medical world with far more powerful weapons for diagnosis and treatment of disease. Australia, Xew Zealand ami the other dominions had assisted England to convene the Congress, thereby forging 1 another link in the Imperial ideal. ])r Barlow delivered a presidential address. Uom AX IA HEADY MMJ TIfOFBLE. IHicharst, August li. Koumaiiia insists upon (J recce relinquishing 1 Kavala and some of t!ie hinterlands, and on Serbia relimniishing 1 Kadovista, Kotchana and Strumnitza. ff •in ag'i'eement is not reached tomorrow ]{oumania will present a protocol for immediate signature. Jvtissiaii and Austrian patience also is exhausted . OX THE PA XI). Johannesburg, August (i. There is much public anxiety owing to the fact that a luantity of dynamite has been stolen. Strikers arc now en- *' dcavouring secretly to dispose ol' this. Several explosions have resulted, one at (jerinasion, which partially wrecked sixlcen houses. Directors of mining industries stigmatise the reference ro phthisis as a deliberate appeal to sentiment

In order (o obscure the real issues. •T. X. Merriman, speaking at Stollenbosch, stated that the sinkers never even mentioned phthisis. (Hiit liord Gladstone did. Editor's nole.) 1 Keeeivcd This Day, 0.-10 a.ni,) "DOG FATS DOG." London, August (>. A report from the assistant Mishop of' I'odosio, ;i member of the commission of inquiry into Tur-: : sh. I ntcii ics during the advance on Adrianople, alleges that the troops pillaged and burned Christians'- houses and shot fleeing inhabitants. Many girls were incinerated in their liouses to avoid capture. INDIA X I MOTS. Delhi, August f>. Official accounts of the latest disturbances show that a crowd of twenty thousand mercilessly beat the police before the latter filed. Superintendent Doad was severely injured. 'lie handled the police with courage and judgment. HgPiCTJIILI H IMIIIIKMgS.