HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13009, 10 January 1908, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Uniiod Press Association—Hy Etectrio Telegraph—Copyright. •JACK THE RIPPER" CRIMES. BERLIN, January 8. Five i: Jark the Ripper"' crimes "have been perpetrated in tho streets lioro. including the murder of four children. ! BATTLESHIP IMPROVEMENTS. j LONDON, January 8. j Collingwood ltave boon commenced. ■ I Tiioy izioliido- tho raising of the turret j amidships, which enables β-n all-round fire to bo maintained. AX INDIAN LOAN. (Received January 9th, 10.30 p.m.) BOMBAY, January 9. An Indian loan of five millions, at 3J per cent., with a minimum of 99, is being issued. FEMALE SUFFRAGE AT HOME. LONDON, January 9. Mr Haldane, addressing the Liberal Social Council at Glasgow, said that it would be coon recognised, that it was impossible to withhold tho suffrage from women. THE SUEVIC. Tho Suovic'e parts have been united. THE DESECRATION OF KRUGER'S GRAVE. PRETORIA, January 9. Tho charges against two officers and an ex-Civil Servant of desecrating tho late President Kruger's grave have been withdrawn. [The accused wcro Lieut. Clark, of the Yorkshire Light Infantry, Lieut. Herring, of tho Royal Engineers, and Dickson, an ox-Civil M>rv»int. A message to the "Standard" on October 18th, said:—A most painful sensation has been created hero by the discovery to-day of tho desecration of the grave of ex-President Kruger in Pretoria Cemetery. Tho white marble bust of the ex-President had been torn from its granite base, and was lying on its face a yard away from tho foot of tho grave. Tho tombstone of the grandchild of tho ex-President, which was in the same plot, was slightly damaged, a statuette of an angel which stood, at tho hood of tho grave having been knocked from its pedestal. The two adjoining graves were also disturbed.]