Second Edition British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1914, Page 3

Second Edition British and Foreign.

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(Received This Day, 8.-30 a.m.)

THE S UFFIiAGETTES. London, May .15. Mrs Dacre Fox shrieked for twenty minutes in the "Westminster Court, and the hearing was suspended. Mrs Drunmiond endeavoured to shout down the magistrate. Both were sentenced to one month's imprisonment, in default of Mrs Drummond fought the police when being removed.

Lillian Mitchell was charged at Birmingham with delivering inciting speeches. She endeavoured to shout down the Magistrate. She was remanded. FOGGED. A squadron of army.aeroplanes voyaging from Montrose to Salisbury encountered a fog at Northallerton. Four collided with hedges and one was overturned. Lieutenant Empson and a mechanic were killed. ARBITRATION. Rome, May 15. Italy and the United States have an arbitration convention which provides for a commission of five to settle all disputes. YATICAN KEEPS OUT. It is stated that the Vatican refused a South American; invitation to join the mediation between Mexico and the United States. A-MAYING. SI. Petersburg, May 15. Many May-day strikes have occurred in the principal cities, and 130 thousand are idle. There is no disorder. (Received This Bay, 11.20 a.m.) RUBBER EXPLOSION. New York, May 15. Ten men were killed and three injured in the explosion which destroyed the plant of the Mexican Crude Rubber Company, at Detroit. Eleven survived. One bodv was blown through the roof, and" three burned beyond recognition. A vat containing a_ large quantity of melted rubber is be- / lieved to have exploded. : .. OBITUARY. Montreal, May 15. Obituary- Hon. Mr Monk, exMinister for Public "Works in the Borden Cabinet.