British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 October 1913, Page 3

British and Foreign.

! [ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, COPYRIGHT. | j.l'Elt PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (deceived This Day, 9 a.m.) It 1 SING IN POim/GAIv Advices from Portugal state that the situation in Lisbon was for some time serious. A strong force of rebels, many of them disguised as policemen, attacked the police stations. In one instance the station was captured, and the telegraph wires cut. The alarm was raised, and iroops, bluejackets and firemen recaptured it. Two hundred bluejackets, with onick-firurs, were chiefly instrumental in mastering ftlie situation. Strong patrols of infantry and cavalry scoured the streets throughout the night, dispersing the disjointed bands of rebels. Tlu latter were well armed. At the latest advices troops were massed in the city and the Ministries were strongly guarded. All monarchist newspapers have been suppressed. Lisbon, October 20. Captain Continho, a French refugee, was arrested ;• also a number of men who had been entrusted with the assassination of President Costa. ('Receiver This Day, 10.1.0 a.m.) THE SUFFRAGETTES. London, October 20. The conspiracy charge against Mrs Drummond has been withdrawn, on the ground of lapse of time, owing to ill health. The sull'ragettes burned a sports pavilion at Bristol University. The damage amounted to two thousand pounds. The Chancellor of the Exchequer'(the Hon D. Lloyd George), at Swindon, told a suffragette deputation that he was more suffragist than ever. He added that tlie effect of their militancy had been enormous. It ( had converted indifference into bitter hostility, and woman's suffrage was never in a worse position in Parliament. Nevertheless, he did not despair, and lie was glad to observe that the spirit of militancy was withering. He advised women to organise strenuously on non-militant lines between now and the next general elect ion.

(Received This Day, 11.-15 a.m.) SERIOUS MINE DISASTER. New York, October 2-'!.

Fourteen (lead bodies have been recovered from the Stag' Canon Furl Company's mine at Dawson, New Mexico, and twenty-five were rescued alive, while (lie fate of the others is not yet ascertained. They are mostly Italians. flic rescuers managed to penetrate to the lower levels, but. were unable to reach most of the men, owing' to gas filling 1 the tunnels. Setlleis and ranch-owners from outlying districts are helping' in the rescue work. Two hundred and fif'tv miners are still missing. THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION. . Mexico City, October 2 ; S. Revolufionists massacred 'the entire population of (be village of Clieran, at Lieurin, in the State of Michoaoan. The villagers bravely defended themselves, buf the revolutionaries burned every house and killed every inhabitant. The torturing of captured Federal soldiers lias been reported. ENGLISH RAILWAYS. London. October 2'i. A Royal Commission, with Lord Lowebnrn as chairman, has been appointed to report as to whaf charges are desirable in the relabetween the railway companies and the State, apart from the safety of working and conditions of emplovment. CHILDREN PROVIDED FOR. "Several priests -and trades unionists met eighteen Dublin children at Liverpool. They have been satisfactorily accommodatedWRECKED. Renter reports that the Finnish steamer Veetkusten was wrecked at Yasa. Forty were drowned. i