Second Edition. British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 May 1914, Page 2

Second Edition. British and Foreign.

; " , [EI.FOTKIC TET.EGBAPH, COPYRIGHT. 1 ff (PEE I'RESS ASSOCIATION'. i COTTON MILLS BURNT. < London, May 17. The Bankfield cotton mills at Nelson were burnt out in half an hour. TKe damage amounts to H £4,000. The fire was visible for b ten miles. SevenJiundred workI ere have.been affected. . - (Received This Day 9.20 a..m) \ BEDOUINS AND THE SEA. Rome, May 17. , The steamer Solf erino stranded near Bardia in Tripoli. Bedouins attacked ia party of Vpassenfilers and the crew on - They killed a firemani'isailor, two passengers an feigineer. £ - Three steamers to the rescue. Others are : still aboard J? the Solferino. VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. y " Fresh earthquake shocks have v occurred in Sicily and Mt. Vesuvius is very active. INSURANCE COMPANIES $:V SWINDLED. Sixty arrests were effected in Naples of charged with / swindling insurance companies by means of simulated or self-in- %£ flicted wounds. It is reported pi'' that £120,000 were obtained.. FOR NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS. i*' ■ London, May 17. Despite the> Customs officers' vigilance large consignments of rifles and ammunition have been landed at various parts on the west coast of Ireland for the Nationalist volunteers. MUTINEERS' FATE. <■ Letters have reached Plymouth which state that forty-five mutinous Peruvian soldiers were placJ « ed on a raft in the Mapo river and massacred by machine gun fire from a patrol boat. v; FIRE AND LITERATURE! The grandstand and other r buildings at the racecourse at Castle Bromwich 'were destroyed by fire. The damage amounts to * several thousands. Suffragette ■ literature was found. 7 CAUGHT IN A Pt)LICE TRAP. Berlin, May 17 ;v- .. The female cashier who was arS rested as a spy at Hamburg is Rosa Langstean, Austria. ft fell into a police trap, was. sentenced to thirty months imprisonment. ON BENGALIS. Calcutta, May 17. ' Several houses of educated Benwere raided and six people A large quantity of literature and two were seized.