HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14909, 24 February 1914, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

fr(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) JEWELLEL / DISAPPEARS. LONDON, February 22. Blanckonsee. a jowcller at Birmingham, deposited in a cloakroom qf tho Tube Station at King's Cross, a caso containing £6000 worth of jewellery. Tho caso mysteriously disappeared. SWALLOWED HIS WEALTH. CAIRO, February 22. A poor Italian resident was oporated on for appendicitis, and a French lcuis discovered in the appendix. Ho explained that he won tbe coin in a lottery and swallowed it, fearing that his friends would bo importuning him 'for loans, and it w,as the eafest hiding place. INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA. CALCUTTA, February 22. The Rev. Mr Andrews, a missionary at Delhi, who has been visiting South Africa, says ho anticipates * a settlement of the Indian trouble. No difficulty presents itself in regard to the poll tax, and he believes the marriage question can be adjusted if the Government does not attack the Mohammedan religion by legalising one marriage only. "KINO OF THE JEWS." ST. PETERSBURG, February 22. The Holy Synod lias secured the prohibition of the performance of the /Grand Duke Constantino's drama, "The King of the Jews," on the ground that it is anti-<7hrist;an and dangerous to morals, WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. BERLIN, February 22. Lubelski, who Was charged with wholesale bribery of Prussian and Russian frontier officials in connexion with the white slave traffic, has been sentenced to nine years' penal fiervitudo. His profits amounted to _3GOO a year. BANDITS ROB CARAVAN. ST. PETERSBURG, February 23. Six bandits ambushed a caravan of forty vehicles on tho Lodo-SyestochoWa road, and robbed ICO passengers of several thousand roubles. Some 7th Hussars offered resistance, and three bandits were severely wotinded* PoUce captured two of the wounded and two bandits. ADDITION TO THE LITANY. LONDON, February 22. Tho Convocation of Canterbury decided to insert tho following words in the Litany :--"That it may please Thee to bless and protect all who serve mankind by learning, by labour, and by industry." ALLEGED ESPIONAGE. LONDON, February 23. Prior to the departure of the Continental express from Charing Cross station, detectives arrested a woman on a charge of espionage, and seized a number of documents. A man living in Wandsworth was afterwards arrested. AMERtCAN TOUR OFF. (Received February 24th, 12.20 a.m.) SJfDNEf, February 23. Tho proposal to send a cricket team to America has been dropped. Mr Austin Diamond received a cablegram from Mr Benjamin, the American promoter for whom ho was acting, telling him to cancel all arrangements. Mr Diamond is surprised, as ho knows of no reason for Benjamin's action, but surmises that it is the result of delay in tho negotiations' With the Board of Control.