BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1673, 18 December 1911, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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(PEB PEESS ASSOCIATION.) THE PERSIAN PROBLEM. Constantinople, December 17. . the Minister of Foreign Affairs miormed the Chamber that the. Government was satisfied with the assurances that Russia would maintain Persia's integrity, which was further secured by the Anglo-Russian agreement. He was hopeful of an early settlement of the trouble. ! EARTHQUAKE SOMEWHERE. j Now York, December 17. lho seismograph recorded a violent earthquake 4000 miles away, tho direction being unaseertainahle. FIRE IN CALIFORNIAN HOTEL. At Santa Barbara, in California an annex of the Hotel Potter was burnt, five persons being injured A paiuc occurred among the girls working in the laundry, and many of them when rescued, were exhausted by the smoke. ABROGATION OF THE RUSSIAN TREATY. Russia has protested against the abrogation ot the treaty of 1532 which the Senate is demanding because of the discrimination of American Jews. The Senate loaders declare that a mod-heel resolution is certain to be adopted, ending the treaty Russia declared that tho wording of the Sulzer resolution, as adopted I-,. H^ so ot -Representatives, is objectionable. hnVt h i lr + i ; i^^? cti »g of Cabinet was held at tho White House. ITALIAN ATROCITIES. Ottawa, December 17. At Montreal, pictures showing Italians committing atrocities at iripoli caused a riot in a picture* theatre and the proprietor was forced to, suspend the performance. The Xhcatro was partially wrecked. LABOUR TROUBLES. ■pi o London, December 17. lhe Scottish Miners' Federation representing 100,000 members, has instructed its delegates to the Miners l'cderation Congress to support a national strike. THE SUMRAGETTK Sir Edward Grey, addressing the \\ omen's Liberal Federation, said so long as women wero deprived of a vote the representation of tho people WO rni i. c "'°P ol essly incomplete. lho Hon. D. Lloyd George declared that the Liberal Party repudiated a rclcrenclum on other questions; thorororo no Liberal statesman could with decency apply it to the women's sunrage question. .REFUSED ADMISSION. T! S /v Peter sburg, December 17. J Jio Government has refused the iJntish Embassy's application to waive the law against tho admission ot Jesuits to enable Father Pigott an Australian scientist, to undertake seimological studies at Pulkowo Observatory.