Second Edition British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 May 1914, Page 3

Second Edition British and Foreign.

j||; .ELECTRIC /TELEGRAPH; —COPYBTGHT |} V fPER PPRSS \SSOrTVHox 1 IH ; - (Received This"Day, 9.25 a.m.) iHISi j,. DENIES LOOPING. > ; London, May IS. jp££&"V^The > .Bighf Hon. Winston £t&ff * denies that he looped ; M.POLEONIC CONCEPTION. Ill^•.-■"' /Lord Gurzon, in his presidential addi'ese at the ; Royal Geographical .Society, said that Captain ojjso£~- Scott's,tragedy cast a cloud over , the most brilliant : of Antarctic f '",lf Sir Ernest carried out his Napoconception, he would add a P^:^ j final: wreath to: the others with which he was crowned. p|||:yELSH DISESTABLISHMENT The Right Hon: Reginald Mc-|||f■-_'."i^ Kenna. moved the third reading of-the Welsh Disestablishment Mr W. Hume Williams, |p^;,\M.P.;amoved its rejection. eeI'HUERTA PREPARED TO RE- '.;■;.■ . - sign.. ■■ - ■ : - z^o£o : - ■.'■■.". Washington, May 18. ||S';- Huerta has'authorised the peace delegates to' submit his resignato the conference if such a ■^jf": is found essential to a set-' P^v^ : -;tlement at the peace negotiations. |||p/s'-'T*. is understood that it is likely rthat the whole ecope of -the negofv tiatipns will be widened in order include the best means of pacife|*>s;fying Mexico. BIIf;DETERMINED MEXICANS.' ~~. .';Ninety~ American refugees esscaped aboard the Cetriana, a British steamer, while an angry. Me- ; ;xican mob at Mazanillo threatenled to board the vessel. The wharf' was actually undermined i%|> aid dynamite placed beneath it, fe;^ 'while Mexican steamer laden '$£$£ ; witii inflammable material, cast anchor ten feet from the Cetriana. Lieutenant Minsfer, of the Brinaval, reserve; manoeuvred Cemana out of danger as the |^ = 4 - warship Raleigh arriv-? 5 ed. . As the Cetriana was leaving the Mexicans- despatched a steam. er with the apparent intention of jSpi",' ramminfir ihe Cetriana, but a rifle fusillade permitted the Oetriana to get clear. _' B;? (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) ft||^: : : : : Alibelaction. ■ ' ;: « ' London, May 18. Captain Thomas Webster Kemp ■V-' formerly commander 6t the battleship _" London," sued Mr Lionel Yexley, editor of the periodJ' ioal "Fleet," for libel. j|. Captain Kemp's counsel stated that the paper appealed to the lof" wer. deck and solicited fhe crew's l criticisms of their superior offif cere. The article on the "Lon-%-s don" likened the conditions aboard her to swash-buckling at Zabern. . i^' : Captain Kemp, in evidence, p#t denied that the vessel was" seeth-

ing with discontent, but admitted p% that lie was not re-appointed when 0? the "London" was recommisaion--o^:M> ■• - ■'■ <S/- The c;ige wfls adjourned. P HEALTH. EXHIBITION. The RigM Hon'. Lewis Harcourt, in opening the Victoria lII'. ~-~ League's Health Exhibition at P& . thelmperial Institute, gaid that I"/ he enVied tlije overseas people. Wffe With greater space and smaller Wβ: ' and their opportunity p^- ; of dealing with social problems, , the infantile mortality was lower ij3prin r; the dominions than in the Homeland, but the latfcr was steadily improving.