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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 September 1915, Page 3

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(.Received This Day V.o a.m.) DUKE OF BEAUFORT'S ESTATES. London, Sept. 23. Ihe Duke oi Beaufort is selling his Brecoushiro estates. NO REDUCTION IN THE CABINET. The Rt. Hon, 11. ii. Asquith, in reply to the Hon. C. Belfairs, said that he did not propose to reduce tho number of members in the Cabinet. BULGARIA'S FEARS. Athens, Sept. 23. There are indications thta Bulgaria's mobilisation is duo to foajw of a German violation of her territory. WITHDRAWAL FIIOM VILNA. Petrograd, Sept. 23. It is announced that the withdrawal of the Russians from tho Vilna position has been completed; the Germaus losing a quarter of a million men in the fighting. (Received This Day, y.40 a.m.) GERMANS' AND AMERICA. Washington, Sept. 23. Germany's latest Note over tho Frye case announces that strict orders have been issued to the German naval forces not to destroy American merchantmen earning conditional contraband, but to allow them to proceed unhindered if impossible to take tnem into port. Tiic State Department regards this a a Germany's undertaking to insure American vessels against attack without warning. Germany, however, reserves the right to it6elf to destroy vessels carrying absolute contraband, whenever such destruction is permissible under tho provision of the Declaration of London.