TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 January 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

— « IFBR PRESS ASSOCIATION. 7 HHE MILITARY BALLOT. Wellington, This Day. Results of the ballot- under the Military Servic-o Act will be issued to-morrow morning.

ing for sentiment, and though the fear ol' Bulgaria forsaking her present friends is not great, Germany. should put her friendship on a fixed basis. The correspondent points out that there is an agitation against German dominion in Bulgaria and dissatisfaction .in Bulgarian patriotic circles at the present state of affairs. The article has additional significance from th© following recent speech delivered by M. Radoslavoff, Premier of Bulgaria, who said: "We -are ready to conclude peace because we Wish to see the end. of the war. Bulgaria's work has already been brought to a successful icioncluision." The Sobranje greeted 1 the speech with loud cheers. SCENES AT SENATE ENQUIRY. Washington, Jan. 9. Giving evidence before the Senate's investigation, T. S. Lawson, pacing up and down before the committee, said that all the charges made iby the public and press he believed were true. On© of the commonest things in. Wall street was the leaking out of Government and court affairs that would affect securities. It was premeditated ■ tand deliberate robbery of the American people through stock j gamblers. He added : "1 came here I to give honest testimony, only to I have hell lambasted out of me." Amidst much uproar lie declared'l will not be bulldozed or intimidated." He reiterated that he knew there was

a leakage in the peace note, and profitedl by it himsolf. There were iurtlier violent scenes while Lawson was being examined, and he was frequent!|y rebuked for using intemperate language. The committee adjourned till Tuesday. Meanwhile it considers " the question of committing Lawson for contempt of court. Lawson declared he "did no oare a curse what tlio committee did."

(Mr Lawson caused a sensation in America some years ago by publishing a book "Frenzied Finance," exposing the machinations of speculators and the trusts..)