British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 April 1914, Page 3

British and Foreign

ELECIRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. i PER PKESti ASSOCIATION .-1 (Received This Day, 8.10 a.m.) TENNIS. London, April 3. It is understood that Wilding and Doust will not defend thecoyered courts doubles championship at the Queen's Club. MINERS GO ON STRIKE. The Yorkshire miners have struck. It is expected they will resume on Easter Tuesday. lhe wages loss amounts to £500,000. per week. VICTIMISATION. The executives of the National Transporters' Federation and General Labourers National Council have drafted' an amalgamation scheme with a central fund, to combat victimisation. THE FANNY. Copenhagen, April 3. The steamer Fanny has only sufficient coal for a fortnight, and this would prevent a vessel of her size from reaching South America. (Received This Day, 8.45 a.m.) LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED. London, April The Queensland loan has been subscribed four-fold. ESPIONAGE. The Crown offered no evidence against Mrs Gould, and she was acquitted. Gould pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment and recommended for deportation. Sir J. Simon, K.C., said that Gould was twelve years in the German army, and won an iron cross. Ho had been a spy In England since 1900.

MORE SPIES. Berlin, April o. Keller has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, and Strub and Walter to six years' imprisonment each for espionage at Leipzig, ;md selling gun parts to France. .RUSSIAN WOMEN. Si. Petersburg, April IS. The Czar has assented to a Bill extending' personal and property rights to married women of all classes, and permits separation, which the Holy Synod' always opposed. GENERAL STRIKE. Christiana, April o. At a congress the Social Democratic organisation decided on a general strike in Norway as a protest against the proposed law providing for obligatory arbitration in labour disputes. (Received This Day, O.oU a.m.) FAItLW Ji-ijjL _i . LEADER. London, April o. King's Cross Station was crowd, ed at tho farewell to the Right ffon. H. fi. when he left for East Eife. The Liberal federation arranged a demonstration. The .Right lion. Winston Churchill, the Right Hon. ft. McKenna, the flight lion. John Burns and many Commoners cheered and sang ''For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "Rule Brittania." Ladies (except Ministers' wives) were not admitted for fear of suffragettes. FORCIBLY FED. The flight Hon. It. McKenna states that Mary Richardson, the Tonus slasher, is being forcibly fed. SUFFRAGETTES AND FIRE. • Suifragettes attempted to burn Lisburn Castle. POISONING MYSTERY. St. Petersburg, April 3 The poisoning mystery is unsolved. Scores of women in half a dozen different works were stricken with faintness, access:; si. •; 1

hospital treatment. 1 Some scientists suggest an epidemic of hysteria, but it is more gener; illy bfclivod that strike leaders enlisted i lie services of a clever chemist in order to fomeirt discontent in the working classes.

Tlic doctors are unable to traco the chemicals. - LIBEL ACTION SETTLED. Capetown, April o. General Botha's libel action against Professor Eremantb has been settled. Professor Eremantle, in the House of Assembly, withdrew the allegation and expressed his regret. Tie pays £101) damages and costs. A BALKA'N H A LB. Durazzo, April -'5. A party of Epirotos and Macedonians entered Horitza by stealth and attacked tho > Albanians. The gendarmerie were helpless, owing to Major Rueller, the "Dutch commander, being seriously wounded. Ivorilza's fall is expected „