HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14474, 1 October 1912, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. BLACKMAIL IN CALIFORNIA. NEW YORK, September' 29. Peter Bruno, a wealthy Italian cafe owner at San Francisco, appealed to the police tor protection on receiving the third of a series of letters from blackmailers who demanded ICOO dollars. This was not paid, and his cafe was dynamited. Bruno says he was driven from Portland and El Paso, Texas, by blackmailers. OF CONSUMPTION. (Received October Ist, 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 30. The British Medical Association states that tho Sickness Insuranco Committee has drafted a scheme to effectively deal with tuberculosis. It provides for placing each district under a tuberculosis oflicor to act in conjunction with the patient's doctor. The former determines the method of treatment. SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA. The Ship-owners' Parliamentary Committee has passed a resolution severely criticising the Board of Trade's new lifesaving regulations, on the ground that they subordinate ship-owners' responsibility as regards design and equipment of vessels, to departmental responsibility, thus gravely imperilling safety of life. AZEFF AGAIN. PAJRIS, September 30. Azeff, the notorious Russian police spy and revolutionist, declares that no is willing to be tried by a jury composed of his former comrades. In the event of the death sentence being passed, ho will execute it within tirentyfour hours. • FRENCH MOTOR BANDITS. A powerful motor car, stolen in Belgium, entered Paris, and a dramatic chase by the police followed. Tho four occupants arc believed to be connected with a plot to rob a Bank on settling day. They abandoned the car and escaped.