SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

Evening Star, Issue 15914, 21 September 1915, Page 10

SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

— , (Per United Press Association.) WANGANUI, September 21. Webb and Hannan have both practically completed their training. for the match to be decided on Friday for the sculling championship. Both report themselves very fit and confident. Hannan will strip about 11.9, and Webb a couple of pounds lighter.

(Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 20. ~ The ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ predicts that the Budget will lower the Income Tax exemptions, which, with an increase of 6d in the £, is estimated to produce £50,000,000. A heavy tax will be imposed on war profits. The tea duty will be Is lb, while there will be a 50 per cent, increase of the duties on sugar, tobacco, and cigars; and the telegraphic charges will be incrp-flf'Ccl. NEW YORK, September 20. Viscount Bryce, ex-British Ambassador to Washington, lias issued an appeal to the American people to stop the slaughter of Armenians, .flat least to protest against the wholesale massacres proceeding in Asia Minor. Women are being seized for Turkish harems and compelled to join the Moslem faith. Many are driven into the deserts of Arabia and Syria, and over 10,000 Armenians were drowned at Trebizond, while a quarter of a million escaped into Russia. The Italian Consul vouches for the iaet of the Trebizond massacre.