BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 760, 22 December 1908, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BOOMING A BOOK (Received December 22, 8.8. a.m.) 5 Berlin, December 21. Peter Ganter has been arrested at Munich for an attempt at fraud. With a view of booming a novel, he addressed to half a million people a private letter, illegibly signed, purporting to emanate from a friend, naming the novel ag a gross scandal on morals. Booksellers were beseiged and insulted by eager inquirers because the book had not yet arrived. VENEZUELA ORDERS GUNS. London, December 21. lhe London (Standard says that President Oipriano Castro has ordered 50,000 Mauser rifles in Berlin, and has approached Jirupps, the celei orated gunmakere, for artillery. He is also consulting shipbuilders in regard to battleships. - . A MAN OF MANY INTERESTS. London, December 21 lhe death is announced of Sir P A. Muutz, Bart., Conservative member {or Warwickshire Tamworth Division. . [Sir P. A. Muntz has been an M.P. I since 1884. He was Deputy <Jnairman and Managing Director of. Muntz'* Metal Co., and a breeder of tohire horses and Shropshire Down sheep. He was 69 years of age.] BRITISH TERRITORIAL FORCES The Duke of Fife, President, and Viscount JUsher Chairman of the Territorial Forces' Association, urgently appeal for 27,176 men to complete tne London quota of the Territorial forces. FOREIGN FRAUDS AND BRITISH HONEST if. '• New York, December 21. A committee inquiring into the American tarilf discovered that the ireasury is losing enormously tnrough systematic undervaluation of goods, especially on tne part of Germany, Switzerland, and Japan. The Government appraiser admits that the British valuations are the most honest in the world. The United States has asked European Governments to compel exporfcera to make valuations on oath, and all have agreed excepting Germany. A witness declared " that one lok lawyer received a fee of £16.---000 and another £50,000 for suggesting means of evading the Customs duties on two individual shipments. Tfijjj KING. King Edward has benefited greatly by his sojourn at Brighton.