British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 November 1913, Page 3

British and Foreign.

' Telectiuc telegraph, copyright.] I [PER I'ItESS ASSOCIATION.I (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) TUG'S CHEW RESCUED. London, November 10. The .Royal Mail steamer China picked up, oft: the Lizard, the crew of the tug Nana, famished and suiiering from exposure to the severe weather. They stated that the Nana left Falmouth for South America, and during a gale in the Channel took on a serious list. The captain launched the lifeboat with the crew, but it broke adrift, and separated from the Nana, which they believe to be still afloat with the captain aboard. RECRUITING BOOM. There is a boom in recruiting lor the Navy, owing to the prospect of commissions now held out. It is expected that the recruits this year will number twenty thousand compared to eighteen thousand last year and eleven thousand in 1909. BOY SCOUTS. General Baden Powell, in a letter to the press, says that the Hoy Scouts movement is unable to conscientiously participate in Mr Lucas Tooth's fund. It is not thought desirable to inculcate ideas of soldiering beyond selfdefence into boys before they are able to see things in their proper proportions. The cadet equipment is too expensive for the poorest, to whom the scout movement specially devotes its attention. Drill tends to destroy the boys' individuality and make them part of a machine dependent upon others. A SILVER WEDDING. Mr -Joseph Chamberlain, who has jusl celebrated his silver wedding, has received congratulations from all over the world, including messages from their Majesties. A CONVERT TO ISLAM. Lord Ileadly, following the example of the late Lord Stanley of Alderley, has been converted to Mohammedanism.

THE DUBLIN STRIKE. London, November IG. Dockers in Liverpool refused to oal the Ella.

The Trades' Council, representing twenty thousand organised Bristol workers, sent a deputation to Mr Birrell.. demanding in violent language the release of the Dublin strikers.

Mr Widdicombe, vice-president )f fhe Council, in a bitter speech, charged the Government, particularly Mr Birrell, with the direct responsibility of brutal murders in Ireland.

Mr Birrell interpreted the ac'usafion as tantamount to calling he Government and the authorlies scoundrels.

Mr Widdicombe : Ilear, hear!

Mr Birrell: "Tf suc.h is Mr Weddicombe's opinion it is useless for the deputation to approach me. He denied that the police were at the employers' call, and assured them a judicial enquiry would proceed to Dublin.

THE BALKANS. London, November IG. (Received This Day. 10.25 a.m.)

Austria and Italy have accepted the proposal of the British Commissioner (0 delimit the frontier of southern Albania.

According to "Diplomat,'' writing in the Daily Telegraph, Rusria has decreed that King Eerdinard must abdicate owing to his rapprochment with Austria during the Balkan crisis.

THE SCEERAGETTES. (deceived This Day 10.20 a.m.) London, November 10.

llachel Pearse has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. During the trial a welldressed woman threw a hammer and a tomato at Judge Lawrence, others broke the windows and glass doors. Around the dock five arrests were made. The foreman of the jury asked that all the women be searched as neither the .judge or jury were safe and the Court was cleared of women. LOOPS IN THE AIR. Hucks, an English aviator, performed a remarkable fourfold looping the loop feat. He was twice head downwards for thirty seconds despite the wind and rain. Horouill, a Frenchman, then looped the loop twice, and flew heao downwards for twenty seconds. PROTEST AGAINST INSURANCE. Householders arc protesting against the insurance law operating at New Year. The law involves the insurance of domestics at 80s to 40s per annum each, and the: Federal Council has been urged to postpone its enforcement.

A LIBERAL DEMONSTRATION.

At the large Liberal demonstration in Alexandra Palace there was a great uproar for several minutes, caused by the suffragettes .and the friends of Larkin.

iSI i Winston .Churchill said there was a .strong opinion on both sides in favour of a settlement in Ireland —and that by consent. There was a strong feeling that Nationalists should'receive freedom, means and money to make self-government successful, while Protestant Ulster should somehow be satisfied and comforted, and the United Kingdom freed of old world hates. Ho,concluded with a strong advocacy of land reform.