Beyond The Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 284, 10 August 1910, Page 3

Beyond The Dominion

SYRIAN MASSACRES. Constantinople. It is officially stated that the victims of the attacks made by the Druses on Syrian villages number 1000. APACHE CRIMS. » Paris. A powerful bomb wrecked the house of a well-known detective who has been investigating anarchist and apache crimes in Levallois. The detective was absent on a holiday at the time. The caretaker of the place was severely injured and several passers-by were stunned. CATHOLICS IN SPAIN. Madrid. The Government has requisitioned the special trains and steamers which were intended to carry 80,000 Catholic demonstrators to San Sebastian on Sunday and will use them for troops with which to repress the demonstration. The Catholics are determined to hold a procession, in spite of the Government's prohibition. The Governor of San Sebastian is issuing orders forbidding Catholics to form in groups or enter the town. A FATAL QUARREL. London. The Bucharest correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports that Captain Crigorin, of the Roumanian Artillery, quarrelled with Dr Frunzesau, a lawyer, in a street at Botasani. Dr Frunzesau attempted to horsewhip Captain Crigorin when the captain refused to fight a duel. The latter drew his sabre, and decapitated Dr Frunzesau with a single blow, his head rolling into the gutter. The onlookers tried to lynch the captain who kept them at bay with his sword until the police arrested him. RUSSIAN CRUELTY. London. The "Morning Leader" states that beggars at Kransobrod, Russia, kidnapped the educated daughter of a

wealthy family, blinded and crippled her, and sent her out begging. She recognised her mother's voice at a church door, and was restored to her family. Seventy arrests have been made.

SCOTTISH HOME RULE. London. The Scottish National Committee, including Sir H. J. Dalziel, Mr R. C. Munro-Ferguson, Mr G. N. Barnes, and 18 other members of the House of Commons, have issued a manifesto to the people of Scotland. In this they declare that the settlement of the constitutional question offers an opportunity of reorganising the Parliamentary business on the basis of devolution. They urge that Scotland's claim is as urgent as Ireland's. The Scottish Office is the closest of the bureaucracy system, they assert, and must be revised, leaving each part of the United Kingdom to control its own affairs and Parliament to transact the business of the Empire.