British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 March 1914, Page 3

British and Foreign.

[electric telegraph, copyright. I [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION-1 (lteceived This Day 8.45 a.m.) THE S U EEKAGETTES. London, March 12. Richardson appeared at the Bow street Court. She was weak from hunger-striking, and said that she had been an art student. She cared more for justice than for art. The nation was either dead or asleep, while women vainly knocked at the doors of Ministers, Archbishops, and even at the King's. Nora Smyth, a sculptor, was hned A'L"> for striking a police sergeant on the neck with a drum-stick during a demonstration in Bow-street. The suffragettes sent a deputation to the Glasgow magistrates, and protested against the brutal treatment of Mrs Pniikhursf by the politic. The magistrates ordered the chief constable to submit a report. Helen Crawford has been sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment for smashing the army recruiting office windows at Glasgow. ' A mansion at Stewarton was hred by ilw suffragettes. Both th ( >se acts were protests ".'-rams! Mrs Pankhurst's arrest MISSION 'AFTHOTUTIES ihe China Inland Mission is j concerned for the safety of Lagerguist and his wife,, the Misses Jane and Emily Black and Miss Emily King a t Lohokou. (deceived This Day 10.55 a.mj INFORMATION ON MONDAY The Hi. Hon. 11. H. Aaquith, bilking in (he House of Commons, asked members to postpone « iiuiriher of questions relating f, 7 h(l of Ihe Ulster «»'»• He promised a general statement on Monday. ' A WELCOME. T,,( ' "'"men's organisations Wv }. the deported Lahour lead-'-»'s "-'Vcs and families. A NEW OILFIELD. Berlin,. March 12. The Keiehstag voted half a million marks and appointed an expert to investigate the oil field in North-west New (iuinea prior to the granting of any concessions. A 810 INCREASE. St. Petersburg, March 12. 'The Duma's Budget committee is examining the extraordinary military estimates of ]2i millions sterling. This is an increase of ; !U percent, compared with lf)1->. (hleccivod This Day IT.If) a.m.) SEVERITY WANTED. • London, March I'-'. Ihere is a widespread demand for more severity towards Ihe militant sufVragcttes, and some letters are appearing suggesting that they he allowed to starve. The magistrate commented on the anomaly of a maximum punishment of six months' for damaging works of art and eighteen for smashing windows. A TLBKISII AlliSlllP. ! Jerusalem, March I'J. Mill']' Bey and Ismail Hey. in a Turkish airship I ell intoihe sea at Jaffa. They swam ashore in an exhausted condition and Muri Bey succumbed.