HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11562, 20 April 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Pre»s Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PROTECTING BRITISH MEAT. (Received April 18th, 8.46 a.m.) LONDON, April 17. Tho Right Hon. R. W. Hanbury, President of the Board of Agriculture, has written to the National Federation of Meat Traders' Associations, asking their co-op-eration te. check the pale of foreign and colonial meats as Britisiii. He offers to prosecute offenders if asked to do so. A MOOR'S REVENGE. MADRID, April 17. Mr Forde, son of the British Consul at Laraich, in Morocco, and a friend arrived at Alcazar at night and knocked loudly at the gates. A Moor sentry remonstrated with them, whereupon hie ears were boxed. He retaliated Toy shooting, seriously wounding Mr Forde in the chest. MURDER OF A SOLDIER. (Received April 19tb, 5.7 a.m») BERLIN, April 18. The Kaiser has ordered a searching inquiry- to be made into the Huessencr murder case at Essen. [Hiirtman, an artilleryman at Essen, failed to salute a naval lieutenant named Hussener, who thereupon killed him with a sword-thrust] GERMAN IMPERIAL LOAN. It is announced that the German Imperial loan of fourteen and a-half millions was covered forty-seven-fold. AMERICA AND GERMANY. (Received April 20th, 12.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 19. In consequence of German indignation at the announcement, an American European squadron will "visit Marseilles to greet Presielent JiOtibet on his return from Algeria. President Roosevelt lias arranged for the squadron to be present at the Kiel celebrations.