TIMES-SYDNEY SUN CABLES

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 72, 17 March 1914, Page 6

TIMES-SYDNEY SUN CABLES

LONDON, March 14. Advice from Pbilippolis (Bulgaria) state that Sa-kik Bey, a Turkish Liberal leader, was attacked in tho "street snd scabbed with a knife in the left side. Th;.i i'i supposed to have been done by a Young flint emissary, who lias escaped. -Some Unionists regard the drop in the battleship programme from five to four as conflicting with Hon. Winston Churchill's -(First Lord of the Admiralty) pledge in 1913 because he does not provide for the expansion of the neee.v-.ary protection o; tlm Empire. Reuter's Sicily correspondent states that Signer Marconi has successfully tested a new wireless telephone between warship.:.

The Admiralty Report shows that 125 vessels have been condemned since 1904. They cost the country £26,417.00J.

Nineteen Nationalists were absent from Thursday's critical division in re*gard to the treatment of soldiers. Several w&nt to Ireland without leave, and Mr Redmond (Leader of the Nationalists) severely rebuked them. Tho British Insulated and Hekby Cables Company has secured a £:300,000 contract to supply oVerhead electric equipment for Melbourne railways. Mr Albert Edwards, founder of 'Le Matin', has bequqeathed £250,000 to Miss Gabrielle Roman, a young actress fri-e'nd of hiti late wife. SYDNEY, March 15. Three oases of smallpox are reported from tho Newcastle district. LONDON, March 14. Mrs Pankhurst has been released. Suffragettes early this morning smashed many windows in Hon. R. Mc~ Kenna's (Home Secretary) liou.se' at Westminster. Six were arrested and sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labor. Mr McKcnna was absent from home.

Discussing the Army estimates in the House of Commons, Mr Hunt (Unionist member for the Ludlow division of Shropshire) a*ked whether tho War Office orders for Australian meat had been reduced because it was infested by a parasitic worm. Colonel Seely (Minister for War) replied that it was found necessary to excise a portion of a carease to make sure, that a parasite was not present. This applied to all meat imported from Australia. Mr Hucks, the aviator, described eight successive loops at Hendon. M. Gustavo Hamel made a side loop and a back loop. It is suggested that the Press Conference to be held in Ottawa should consider the questions of trade and defence affecting Canada, Australia and New Zealand and the relations of the dominions to Imperial interests in the Pacific. British Columbia would like the conference to meet in Vancouver, but it has- been decided to hold it in Ottawa.

PARIS, March 13. The. French pirns points out that Russia and France have an equal right with Germany to perfect their armaments. 'Le Temps' observes that if legitimate, measures, for which Germany set the ox-ample, are to be challenged an era of chronic tension will be reopened and cveryono will suffer.

WASHINGTON, March 13,

Tho Senate passed a resolution demanding an explanation from Mr Page (Ambassador in London) for saying at a .banquqt't of the. Chamber of Commerco that it pleased Americans to know that Riitain would be the chief gainers by tlio Panama Canal.