HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 209, 23 January 1913, Page 6

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

FRIENDLY TO BRITAIN. Berlin, January 6. One of the Berlin dailies, the Lokal Anzieger, emphasises the statement that Herr von Jagow, the new Secretary of Foreign Affairs, was, during his Ambassadorship in Rome, the intimate friend of the British Minister there. The paper gives prominence also to the fact Umt Herr Jagow has been vigorously supporting all movements that have been undertaken to promote friendship betwpen Britain and Germany. NAPOLEON'S ILLS. London, January 8. Professor Keith, Hunterian Professor to the Royal College of Surgeons, in a lecture upon Napoleon the First, said that microscopical observations of the small intestine demonstrated that the great leader suffered from a lvmphoidal disease incidental to a tropical climate before he became a subject of cancer of the stomach, from which he died.

GIRL'S STRANGE STORY. London, January 8. An extraordinary story is told regarding the kidnapping of three children from a London suburb. One of the youngsters was found, and returned to its parents, and it was discovered that the kidnapper was a girl, who said that she wanted the little ones for her young man, Willie, who was returning' from Sydney.