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Waikato Argus, Volume XVII, Issue 2713, 10 October 1904, Page 2

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THE BRITISH ARUY AND WAR London, October 7. The Secretary of State for War (Mr H. O. Arnold-Forster) speaking at the feast of the Cutlers’ Guild, warned the nation that it would be unable to prepare for war without previous sacrifices. “You can’t trifle with war,” he said. “Every farthing spent on the training of troops unfit to face and defeat a foreign enemy is money wasted.” He added that the array was ready to accept the enforcement of this test. A year’s experience of the War Office had filled him with grave concern. He sympathised with conscription, though he doubted whether the system would yield advantages commensurate with its burden. The array was not wanted for sport or social opportunities or recreation, but to bo able to win when it fought.

GERMAN CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION. Berlin, October 7. Professor Wilhelm Oahl has warned the Kaiser that his conceptions of the legal aspects of the Lippe succession are utterly wrong. There is much indignation on account of the Kaiser’s arbitrary telegram, especially since it was not endorsed by Count Von Bulow’s signature. DISTRESS IN ENGLAND, London, October 9. There are six thousand unemployed in Poplar, 10,000 in Westham, and an unprecedented number in the Stepney municipality. Meetings are called in the towns to petition the King to summon Parliament in order to provide relief.

COUNTESS AND PROFESSOR Rome, October 7 The trial of the beautiful Countess Linda Bontarturi and her lover (Professor Seccbi), on a charge of murdering her husband, is intensely interesting society in Rome. Astonishing revelations are being made in the evidence given in Court. TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY. Berlin, October 7. The Kaiser in opening the Technical College at Dantzig. said that it was intended to develop local industries, especially shipbuilding. He emphasised Germany’s advance in the matter of technical science, and maintained that this was due to systematic training, and not to savants’ chance discoveries. ESCAPED BOERS TAKE OATH. Capetown, October 7. The eight recalcitrant Boers, who have been arrested at Capetown on a German steamer, having escaped from Bermudas, are to be allowed to return to the Transvaal on making a declaration of allegiance of the King. They have agreed to do this.

SELLING PLANS OF BATTLESHIPS. Berlin, October 9. Herr Barkmeyer, secretary of the Secret Department of Krupp’s Germania Shipbuilding Yard, has been arrested for selling plans of battleships to either Britain or a rival German firm. UNEASINESS IN CHINA London, October 9 Reuter’s Shanghai correspondent states that uneasiness is being caused by reports from widely-separated points of the interior regarding the secret societies. Chinese officials are everywhere striving to procure the most modern arms and ammunition. DAILY MAIL AND PALMISTS. London, October 7 Mr Alfred Harmsworth has prosecuted three West End palmists for obtaining money by false pretences. Each was ordered to find sureties in £IOO to come up for judgment if the offence was repeated.

SCOTTISH CHURCHES TROUBLE. London, October 7. The Free Church Commission of the General Assembly has refused to enlarge the powers of the conference. and its represeu f atives have rejected the suggestion of arbitration. SHIPS FOR BRITISH NAVY. London, October 9. The Admiralty has ordered a warship to be built on the Yarrow and another at Glasgow. Both are to be of the Lord Nelson type, costing a million and a-balf each. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS. London, October 7. The Board of Trade returns for September show that imports have decreased by £2,377.158. and that exports have increased by £2,612,908. LADY CURZON. London. October 8. Lady Cuizou has had a serious relapse, and grave fears are entertained for her recovery, October 9. Lady Curzou is slightly improved. UNITED STATES NAVY. Washington, October 7. Admiral Sterling recommends important additions to the United States navy on the Asiatic station. IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. London, October 7 The New Zealand court at the Imperial Institute has been reorganised. MISCELLANEOUS. London, October 7 The Government has summoned a conference of representatives of Boards of Guardians of the Poor to cope with the prevailing distress iu parts of England. The equinoctial gales have caused a number of casualties among shipping on the British coast, and some lives have been lost.

The Consul-General for France, who is on hj special visit to Newcastle for that purpose, thanked the lifeboat crew tor their gallant conduct in saving the crew of the Adolphe. Twenty thousand Germans have taken part in a procession at St. Louis. The German Ambassador, addressing the processionists, conveyed the greeting of the Kaiser, who had sent an assurance of his warm interest in their welfare.