ARMY CONTRACTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18, 23 January 1911, Page 7

ARMY CONTRACTS.

THE RUSSIAN SCANDAL GRAND DUKES INVOLVED. THE WOMAN IN THE CASE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, (Received January 23, 9 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 22nd Jan. In connection with the army contracts' scandals, a famous ballerina was suspected of receiving bribes from the agents of foreign ordnance firms on account, of her influence with certain Grand Dukes. The police ransacked her house, dospite the Grand Dukes' protests, and seized many cases of jewels, in order to trace the purchasers. [A sensation was caused last month by the arrest of M. Meyer, head of one of the Government gun factories, together with several of his associates, on charges of maladministration. A strict enquiry was ordered.] QUICK VENGEANCE. FOUR SIBERIANS MURDERED. ALL THE MURDERERS KILLED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 23, 9 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 22nd Jan. Four robbers, armed with hunting knives, murdered four members of a household near Krasnoyarsk, in Eastern Siberia, and bound a fifth who was a girl of eighteen. A brother unexpectedly returned and shot three of the murderers with a Browning revolver, and set dogs upon the fourth, which tore him to pieces. TO FIGHT CHOLERA. « AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Cop,yriglii, PARIS, 21sb January. The Prime Minister, M. Briand, announced in the Chamber of Deputies that an internatioal hygienic conference was being convened, with a view to organising measures against cholera. JOURNALISTS AND ARBITRATION ACT. SYDNEY INSTITUTE DECLINES TO REGISTER. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright). SYDNEY, 22nd January. The New South Wales Journalists' Institute has negatived ths proposal already adopted by the Melbourne journalists to form a union, and register under the Commonwealth Arbitration Act. The Melbourne journalists have already applied for registration. JAPAN'S FOREIGN RELATIONS. GENERALLY CORDIAL. ARRANGING FOR COMMERCIAL. TREATIES. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. TOKIO, 21st January. The Prime Minister, Marquis Katsura, in speaking in the Diet, said Japan's relations with the Powers were cordial. The British alliance was gaining in strength with age. Japan expected to complete new commercial treaties with all the Powers without difficulty. The national expenditure on armaments would be restricted to the country's necessities. HUNDRED YEARS' PEACE. »»»- — — CANADIAN CELEBRATIONS. REQUEST FOR A ROYAL VISIT, By Telegraph.— Press Association. -Copyright VANCOUVER, 21st January. The Empire Clubs throughout Canada, are combining to present a petition to Parliament requesting that Xin 1 , Ueorge be invited to visit the Dominion in 1914, when the celebration of the Inmdml years peace between the Anglo-Saxon, peoples of America will take place. DIVERGENT AIMS. OF BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES. A PESSIMISTIC VIEW. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 22nd January. Mr. F. E. Smith, Conservative M.P. for Walton, Liverpool, in .an article in Reynold&'s Newspaper, which is publishing the views of leaders of all parties, declares that a settlement of the constitutional question in the present Parliament, uriess by agreement, is impossible. Mr. Smith add that all sections of ihe coalition treat the Parliament Bill as a mere means towards divergent end 3. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. LONDON, 22nd January. The Daily Chronicle (Liberal) advocates that the salaries to be granted to members of the House of Commons should be nearer £300 than £400,

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