British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 April 1914, Page 3

British and Foreign

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYEIGHT. ll'Elt I'ItESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received This Day, 8.45 a.m.) HYDE PARK DEMONSTRATION. London, April 5. The. Stock Exchange organised processions to Hyde Park, and the leading Conservative clubs, including the Carlton, sent large contingents comingled with great partics of East End workmen. Sir Edward Carson denied that the army belonged to the Radicals. The Government had no right to use the forces of tho Crown when it refused to take the people's vote. Lord Charles Beresford said that if the army were used against Ulster it would break the navy as well as The armv. The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill had organised a plot against Ulster. Tlie £ Liliput' Napoleon was a man of unbalanced mind, absorbed by frenzy and vindictiveness against Ulster because Belfast had refused to receive him.

Lord Milner said Fliai in earlier civil wars the combatants had beliefs and convictions, but if there was fighting in Ulster, the contending parties would T>e fundamentally agreed in attachment for the flag, throne and Empire, and would be hurled against eacli other in fratricidal conflict, owing to the sinister pressure of a Government which leafed Ulstermen and the armv.

AN ARRIVAL. Fi'iiner Lias arrived m London. COSTLY CONCESSIONS . • The Postmaster-General states that concessions on the lilies of the House of Commons' Committee's report would cost £'(140,000 during the first year and ultimately "£12,215,000.' A GERMAN INVASION". Fifty German and Italian bricklayers, joiners and engineers have arrived at Maworth, in Yorkshire, in connection with the sinking of a new German colliery. A German provision store has been opened.

A SEPAKATIOJN

Pans, xlprii 5. The Chamber of Deputies unanimously passed a resolution in favour of more efficaciously separating the -Judiciary s powers from the Executive's powers. LIJiELLLNG THE CliOW'iN 1 ' J'IUNCE. J3erlin, April 5. Zepler, editor of the JUcr Eriee Weg, and Schmidt, a journalist, lias been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment in a fortress for libelling the Crown Prince by. satirising his farewell to the Eirst Hussars, by means of a letter supposedly written by sentimental school girls just leaving school. IMUXCE WILLIAM'S TASK. Athens, April 5. The insurgents have captured Kovitza. Prince William of Albania summoned his Minister oJ War, and proposed to march at: the head of the troops. The' Minister decided on a goneral mobilisation.