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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 May 1916, Page 3

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London, May 12. The Manchester Guardiian says tliat James Connolly, and presumably -McDermott,, both now under the death sentence by the unwritten law, must be nursed back to lite belore being executed, and it wili be some weeks before Connolly is sufficiently strong stand up. What conceivable gain will there be in shooting himr There has been grave errors and some signal act is needed, to efface the hideous menioiies such as the shooting ot Skeffinstoti and two others equally innocent. The Rt. Hon. H. H. Aequith's main object was to restore good feeling. Great cuds demand great decisions and ior Ireland our policy in "tfiis testTbg time must ha summed up m one word: "Clemency" Copenhagen, May 12. The National Tidende states tha.t a shipbroker at Malinoe, who has business relations with German Baltic ports, has received a sensational report tKta Germany is eommandteering all German merchantmen on June let. Berne. May 12. The Federal Council liars sequestrated all meals. Copenhagen, May ''2. Manv German merchantmen are carrying guns and ammunition towards Libati ,escorted by destroyers and torpedo boats, as British submarines hare appeared in certain parts ot the Ban'ic. Zurich, May ,2. Aradsquseny's flourmills, the in Hungary, carrying enormous stocks of corn nnd flour hare been burned. London, May 12 The Minors' Federation by a 0.-wd rote of 583,000 to 135,0fF0 opposed conscription. and unanimously protested against the automatic enlistment ol lads ol eighteen years ot age. In the of Commons the Rt. Hon. rL. H. Asquith said that the Government was causing the TTnion Jacli to be flown from all public bnildnngs on Empire Day He hoped the example would bo followed. Thie "Daily Telegraph's Parliamontary correspondent states that evidence exists to .show that the Sinn Fein league plotted to kidnap Sir Edward Carson from Mr Ronald Mo

[ Neill's residence at Cusheudall on ! Easter Monday, but tho plan misoirriedi owing to Sir Euward Carson's inability to visit Ireland through die shortness of the Itoster recess. The same correspondent states that j the Government has decided to create | an Air Ministry to which Lord Ourzon ivill be appointed,. The Military Bill passed the Committee stage. It its estimated that the British, Colonial and American Lite Ass-urauco Companies have paid seven millions sterling in respect to war death claims. Mrs Skeffington states that on the day following her husband's death, the military authorities surrounded the house and fired through tho front windows. The.v then burst in and placed herself and her son (aged seven) and a innid wider a*reet. They raßßaotod the house and removed all hooks and papers.