British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 March 1914, Page 3

British and Foreign

| l'lili ritESS AJS.'WJCIik'I'IOU . J ELEC'IIUC TELEGfiAI'II —COFTJUQHT (Received This Day 9.20 a..m)

DEFENCE

Loudon, March 24. Ike. lit. Hon. 11. H. Asquith, questioned in (lie House of Commons, said that the Government was considering the question of a deience conference with Australia and New Zealand, and was now communicating with those Governments. HOME IM'LK CIUSIS The opinion is generally expressed in the lobby that after the Kt Hon. 11. 11. Asquij;h\s speech, it is now impossble for the Government to call on the nrmv to coerce Lister.

Many Liberals and Nationalists are disappointed that Ihe Government does not accept tin resignation of (he officers. Moderate Liberals are debating Mr Catheart Wason's recent suggestion. The Daily News states that the public want to know the conditions on which Brigadier-General Hough returned. Are they conditions of unqualified or optional obedience ? If the army is a lory institution the Liberals will break it as they broke the House of Lords. Colonel Seely has promised to nublish all material documents relating to Brigadier-General Gough s resignation and rein state-

inent. " The "Right Hon. H. H. Asquith added that (lie documents ] include the written instructions io ! 'Sir Artliur Pae 'ft. _ The whole _ question could he discussed on the I second reading of the Consolidated . Funds Bill to-morrow, i COMPANY FAVOUPEI). i Capetown, March 24. ) The Phodesian elections largely favoured the Chartered Company. < THE PAP IS TRAGEDY. ! Paris, March 24. At the enquiry into tTie shooting of 51. Calmette by Madame Caillaux, Princess slesagne Estredere, a contributor to the Figaro, gave evidence that when Caillaux and Madame Dupre's three letters were destroyed, Madame Dupre kept photographs, and when M. Calmette heard of this, lie offered twenty thousand francs for tin photographs, which otter was declined. When the letter signed by "-To ' was published in the Figaro, Madame Caillaux was justified in supposing that the two others were in M. Calmette's possession . Isidore Delai'a, a well known composer, and Madame Chartran, a painter's widow, confirmed the Princess's evidence. IX JAPAN. Tokio, March 2-1. Parliament has been suddenly prorogued, and the Cabinet' has resigned The navy loses six and a-half million sterling, as the former budget becomes automatically operative. FOI'P HOURS' BATTLE. Alliens, March 24. After a four hours' battle the Auontsaina Epi rotes were routed the Albanians killing fifty-two. Another force- ot bpirotes is marching oji Ivorzt-za. (Received This Day, 11.0-3 a.m.) A 110 YAL VISIT. London, March 24. 'llieir Majesties have gone to Cheshire to visit- the industries there. THE NAVY. lhe Pight Hon. A\ inston Churchill, in reply to a quesiion as to <■ whether the proposals regarding ' the disposition of the fleet were > made after consulting the domin- 1 ions, said he regarded the state- J ment made when introducing the naval estimates as self-ex plana- (1 tory, and said "I have not bin if to ' add." t

The Pight Ilou. Winston Churchill added that he had seen the newspaper reports of Senator Milieu's remarks. RELIEF CREW. The relief crew for 11.51.5. Psyche Avill be sent al the end of April. MISSJ'NO PAPYPI'S. Pal is, March 2-I. No official at. the Louvre remembers having seen the missing papyrus It seems to have disappeared in about 1892.

NO ROW

('apetown. March 24

Mr Tom Mann, interviewed, said lie was not here (o kick uj> a shindy, and would do nothing' to bring himself within the Jaw.