BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 December 1911, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND.

LONDON, Dec. 4.—lt is officially announced that Mr. A. M. Anderson, K.C., (Liberal M.P., for Ayreshire), has been appointed Solicitor-General of Scotland.

MEETING THE BULLIES. LONDON, December 4

Tiro Bradford branch of the Amalgamated Railwaymen resolved that the projected volunteer police force was a menace to their liberties and recoin mend the formation of a Trades Union Physical Protection League, to meet on equal terms the bullies organised by capital.

GERMANY IN AFRICA. BERLIN, December 4.

The Morgan Post says that the Anglo-German Treaty of 1898 contingently granted Germany Portuguese possessions in Africa. These might now be taken as compensation for Persia.

ATTEMPTED BLACKMAIL. LONDON December 4. Francis Henry Page, William Henry Glendining and Frederick Marshall, an exsolicitor, were charged at Bow Street with blackmailing the Countess Hamil Demanin. £SOO were obtained under a threat that letters would be published to her annoyance. The letters were written by Dan O’Connor, late of Sydney and one Dobbie. It was stated in Court that the letters were not in the least improper but Contesse Demanin was a nervous old lady. BOMB EXPLOSIONS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec 4. There has been an extraordinary series of bomb explosions which are attributed to Bulgarian revolutionaries. An infernal machine hidden amongst luggage on Salonika Railway exploded and killed the guard and ticket collector. Other bombs wrecked the last coach of a train at Kuprili, Macedonia. Another bomb wrecked the hut of the gendarmes guarding the line at Kuprili. A FATAL ACCIDENT. LONDON December 4.—A crowded omnibus in Finsbury Square lost its wheel and overturned, twelve persons being injured. OBITUARY. NEW YORK, December 4. Admiral Welde died of heart disease. FATAL EXPLOSION. NEW YORK, December 4.—Tho boiler of the tow boat Diamond, on the Ohio River exploded and the Captain and three men were killed. The boat sank. THE KAISER EULOGISED. NEW YORK, December 4.—ln an interview Mr A, Carnegie said that the Kaiser was all for peace. The title ‘War Lord” was a slander on an essentially peaceful ruler. UNHAPPY MEXICO. MEXICO CITY,, December 4. Thirteen rebels w r ere captured at Yucatan and were shot without trial. Revolutionary bands are operating in the Yucatan towns. FAMOUS FRAUD REVIVED. PARIS, December 4. Madame Thersa Humbert, who was. sentenced to five years imprisonment in August 1903 for forgery and swindling in connection with the famous empty safe frauds, is insane and has resumed her quest for the missing wealth.

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. Received this day at 8.5 a.m. BERLIN, December 4.—The Post states that Britain, not Germany, is at the end of the tether in’-regard to ship building. It is questionable whether .she will be able, without enlisting foreigners or conscription, to carry out the two keels to one programme, especially if Germany lays down four or five capital ships yearly. INCENDIARY FIRE. . BERLIN, December 4.—A fire, attributed to incendiarism, destroyed •'•0 worth of uniforms and accoutrements connected with the Leipsig barracks. All non-commissioned officers on duty at the depot at the time have been arrested. INSUBORDINATION. BERLIN December 4. —Two of the cruiser Von. Dertann’s bluejackets have been sentened to servitude at Kiel for insubordination wnth violence to their superiors. AVIATOR KILLED, BERLIN, December 4. — Reeib, while aeoplaning from Munich to Nurenburg, was killed by a fall. MILLIONAIRE SUICIDES. PARIS, December 4. —David Wolfe Bishop, a member of the New Yacht Club, suicided here. He bequeathed to his friend, Jeanne de May actress, his residence besides £50,000. OBITUARY. LONDON, December 4 —The Marinis of Waterford was found drowned in the river Clodagh adjoining his residence at Curraghmore. Death was apparently accidental. WARSHIP “ZEALANDIA.” LONDON, December 4. Lady Hall Jones at Portsmouth renamed the battleship New Zealand The Zealandia. A large gathering of officers and New Zealanders were present at the ceremony.

REFORM WANTED. OTTAWA, December 4.—The Federal Government is to be asked to appoint a Commission to investigate the present system of telephones and Telegraph mail delivery with a view to reform. INCONVENIENT MEMORIES. PARIS, December 4. Pending perusal and fearing that the Court had been assailed, King Alfonso has ordered his aunt Princess Eulalia, who is domiciled in Paris, to suspend the publication of her book bearing upon Socialism and religion and marriage. His aunt, however, persists in publishing the book and declares that she has relinquished the Court life.