CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20128, 16 July 1914, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(■United Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, July 14. Owing to the AminJgamaibe-d Engineers rejecting-the level for political purposes no fund will be available for the next elections. The society declines to assume responsibility for Mr Duncans' election expenses and have deferred the decision in regard! to Mr Barnes. S ultra get tes exploded a canister^ of gunpowder on the window sill of the Rosslyn Chapel. The damage was not serious. WASHINGTON, JuUy 14. Costa Rica and Salvador are protesting against the pending Nioaraguan treaty, contending that the American object is to secure a virtual protection over Nicaragua, thus impairing the autonomy of the other Central American States. Costa Rica objected that its interests in the route of the projected Nicaraguan canal had not 'been considered. Salvador objected to the United States establishing a naval base at Fonseca Bay. LONDON, July 14. Mr Austen Chamberlain has been returned for West Birmingham unopposed. BERLIN, July 14. The court-martial has sentenced Sergt Pohl to fifteen years' servitude, ten years' deprivation of civil and military rights and dismissal from the army for .'■eliing plans. TOKIO, July 14. In connection with the naval scandals Pooley was fined £200 and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Hermann was sentenced to one year, but his sentence has been postponed for three years. Both It re appealing.