THE CASE OF MR BOWSKILL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1914, Page 6

THE CASE OF MR BOWSKILL

MISSIONARY SOCIETY PROTEST.

' [By Eusotbio ' [Unitbd Peesb Association.] (Received 8.45 a.m.) ; London, March 11. The Baptist Missionary Society has received a cable 'stating that Mr Bowskill, who has been released on / /parole, is to be court martialled at - * "'San Salvador for supplying the na- ■ tives with ammunition and permitting • ' a native to fire from the station. r lhe Society has appealed to the Foreign Office to prevent the court martial.*

.LATE GENERAL CABLES. o

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. [By Eleotbio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 11.45 a.m.) London, March 11. • Starchfield and the Goulds have been committed for trial. THE METALKA INCIDENT. (Received 11.45 a.m.) Cettinge, March 11. The Metalka incident has been settled and both Austria and Montenegro have withdrawn their troops. SEVENTEEN YEARS' SENTENCE. Vienna, March 11. Jacob, an Austrian lieutenant, has beten sentenced to seventeen years' rigorous imprisonment for espionage during mobilisation at the height oi the Balkan War. LOOTING AT LOHOKON: (Received 11.45 a.m.) Peking, March 11. Brigands at Lohokon sacked the British and American factories, seized 700 rifles and ammunition, impressing 2000 coolies to remove the loot. t i A NAKED PROTEST. Vancouver, March 10. Six thousand Russian peasants threaten to march the streets unclad as a protest against the levying of penalties on communal property for individual offences. RIOTOUS UNEMPLOYED. New York, March 10. ' At Sacramento the unemployed art camped by thousands in tents. The police are unable to control the frequent riots. Gordons of police are guarding the State capital, owing to the unemployed's threats to invade the town. ABDUL HAMID. Constantinople, March 10. Abdul iHamid is not taking food and his condition is serious. LORD MURRAY'S M ARGON IS. London, March 10. Lord Lansdowne, in moving the ap pointment of the Marconi Committee, said Lord Loreburn had joined on condition that the charges against Lore! Murray were specifically formulateo' and the inquiry limited thereto. The methods of the committee would be judicial, and both sides of the House desired his appointment. The Marquis of Crewe said that Lord Loreburn agreed with him that the committee was unnecessary, Nevertheless, he desired that if the committee was to be constituted it should be as strong and as' judicial as possible. i BILLIARDS'. (Received 1.50 a.m.) , London, March 12. Stevenson has scored 4500 and Reece 3424, TRADE FOR THE YEAR* Mr Asquith (Premier) at the Associated Chamber of Commerce dinner, said the year 1913 was a record year. There were signs of diminution and some slackness in British Home and Overseas trade, but business wasconducted on broader and soundei lines than in any previous period, anc greater elasticity was shown. Ther. was little reason to anticipate a seri ous depression.