BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2575, 5 March 1915, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

BY ELECTRIC TEI.KGBAPH. —COPYBIGBT. PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION. (Received March 5, 11.50 a.m.) Washington, March 4. Tile Senate passed a resolution granting President Wilson enlarged I powers to enforce neutrality laws re- ] •spectiug the proposed sales of ships , belonging to belligerents now interned in U.S.A. harbours. San Francisco. March 4. Mr Edmund Clifton, the Dominion's . resident Commissioner, welcomed a huge gathering of representative people at the formal dedication of the New Zealand pavilion at the Panama Exposition. Tho Maori troupe from Rotorua assisted in the welcome by contributing native dances. Mayor Ilolphe, on behalf of San Francisco, presented a bronze plague to Mr Clifton as a memento of the occasion. Mr Alfred Deakin, Australia's Com- ' niissioner. spoke iv a hearty spirit of the co-operation existing between Australian and New Zealand and the ' United States of America. He hoped that the opening of the Panama Canal would cement this friencrsnip I further. In the House of Lords. Earl Crewe said the lamentable outbreak at Singapore was in painful contrast to the loyalty of the Indian troops in the present war in many parts of the world. It was due to some internal jealousy not nnocmmonly found niong recruits of di/I'erent classes. It is important to understand that tho • riot was not connected with sympathy for a Holy War, which all true '■ Mahomniedans denounced. ( Fifty of the rioters were, killed and , the. remainder are interned. A court 1 martial is iv progress. There was'no , suggestion of a religious rising against ( the British Government. Delhi, March 4. A connimnitjiie states thai only , half a regiment <>[ tho oth Indian infantry at Singapore wevi> implicated , in the riot, which was due to certain < jjromotioii.s from tho Jndi.m ranks. \ anil the regiment's impending departure.