VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 67, 17 September 1906, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

I muss association/! (Received September 17, 8.30 a.m.) PRECAUTIONS AGAINST ANARCHISTS. PARIS, 16th September. Extraordinary precautions are being taken to protect M. Fallieres, the President, who is now on a visit to the Marseilles Colonial Exhibition. The houses along the routo of the procession were searched for bombs, and six anarchists were arrested. MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT. ■ LONDON, 16th Soptember. A motor car, containing the Duchess of Connaught and her daughter, killed a boy at Hounslow. The accident was dues' to the boy's 'fault. MILITIA FORCE. LONDON, 16th September. The Spectator, referring to the experimental company it promoted, emphasises that it is possible to form a militia force of three hundred thousand at a comparatively small cost. EARTHQUAKES IN SICILY. ROME, 16lh September. Severe earthquakes have boen experienced at Palermo, the capital of Sicily. HEREFORD FESTIVAL. LONDON, 15th September. Madame Mary Conly, of Now Zealand, sang with great success in Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" at tho Hereford festivo!. A NATION IN ARMS. LONDON, 15th September. Speaking at Newcastle yostorday Mr. Haldanc, Minister of War, said it was necessary to popularise the conception of a nation in arms, though not a spirit of militarism. , There ought to be ono national army of regulars, militia, yeomanry, and volunteors — all parts of ono whole. The -Minister said ho ncttUl even like to sco riflo cluba affiliated to tho forces. They must look to th'o expansion of thoir volunteer foroca as tho Continant reliod on conscription. With sufficient enthusiasm they might get into tho field and maintain an army of nino hundred thousand rasn.