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Evening Star, Issue 15373, 23 December 1913, Page 4

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Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. December 22. Two women were charged at Cheltenham with firing the Alstonelawn Mansion on Sunday. The police- evidence showed that tho staircase was covered with paraffin and that the imprints of stockinged feet were discovered. Tho police found the accused's stockings saturated with paraffin. The Duke of Bedford has sold several Bloomsbury blocks, including the Shakespeare Theatre site. The total price was £3OOXOO.

Walter Robson was committed for trial for stealing £7,000 from the Commercial Bank of Australia.

The ' Daily Chronicle' reports that Mr Buxton retires, from the piesidencv of the Board <.f Trade, nnd will be succeeded by llv Maslorinan.'

British emigration during November totalled 16.869 persons, whereof 3.195 went to-Australia and 8,456 to other portions of the Empire. CAPE TOWN.- Decerning 22. Ghandi. addressing the Indians at Pietermaritzburg, urged them to go into mourning. He declared that the Indians were more than ever determined to resist the Government, The meeting carried a resolution to renew, the passive resistance movement unless two additional members wow appointed to the. Inquiry Commission and the imprisoned men released.'

JOHANNESBURG, December 22. Jho bullet has been removed from Sir Lionel Phillips's Jung. His condition is grave.

AIMS AREBA. December 22. It is officially announced that the Emperor Monelik of Abyssinia is dead.