CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 February 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

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(Received This Day 9.10 a.m.) BUSINESS MEN TO ADVISE. Melbourne, This Day. Senator Pearce states that in view of the fact that Defence Department :s spending eleven millions before the jnd of June, it is appointing business men to act as financial and commercial advisers to the Department. It has also been decided to proceed with tho building of military aeroplanes. RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP. The Hon. H. Mason announces that women who lost their Australian citizenship by marrying Germans, may l>e naturalised, even if their husbands leinain unnaturalised. A SOCIALIST CONFERENCE. London, Feb. 10 Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., presided at a conference of English, French, Belgian and Russian Socialists held in London. It passed a resolution that a German victory would mean the defeat and destruction of democracy and the liberty of Europe. It was resolved to resist any attempt to transform this defensive war into a war of conquest. The Allies victory must iim at popular liberty, unity and independence, and tho autonomy oT 'rations and the peaceful federation of the world. The working classes after the war must unite to suppress mil i- I tarism and enforce international arbitration ; it also demanded the liberation and compensation to Belgium; that status of Poland be settled in accordance with tlve wishes of its people ; either autonomy or coaiplete independence for Alsace-Lorraine; that the Balkan population annexed by force should have the right to freely disuse of itself as it wished. INSANE. Melbourne, This Day. Uutohan Singh has been acquitted of the murder of the Pugsley family on the grounds of insanity. THE ISLAND HURRICANE. Suva, Feb. 17. The Tofua from Samoa brings a letter from Pro the re, a trader, reporting that the hurricane at Ninefou from January 16th to the 18th started at 1 o'clock on the 16th. Tho previous gales had been from north-east to north-west, but this hurricane came from tho south, and the island was devastated. The disturbance was more in the nature of a tornado than a hurhicane, and every house was blown down, also the cocoannt trees . 1 t was as if a lire swept the island. It is estimated that there will be no cocoanuts for eight years. There is vo information as to any lives being lost.