BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 May 1914, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

.. >&VT r [PKR PKKSS ASSOCIATION- COl WIGHT. J INDIAN FAMINE. DELHI, May 26.—The distress in the famine districts is increasing and people are flocking to the relief works. Cholera has appeared. MILLIONAIRE MORGAN NEW YORK, May 26.—Mr J. I. Morgan has denied Mr Melbn s statement that he (Mr Morgan.) concealed the truth from the Newhaven lines management. He also denied that he removed Mellin for personal reasons or that his father overrode Mellm s activities- in any way. TITANIC DISASTER CLAIMS. WASHINGTON, May 25.—The Supreme Court held that the Titanic owners were liable only _in accordance with the American maritime law. lius means that the litigants receive nothing, as the law limits the American companies' liability to salvage from the wreck and passenger and freight.money collected from the passengers amounting to 90,000 dollars. Mr Justice McKenna dissented fvom the decision, holding that the British law ought to are pending in the American courts.

SERVED THEM RIGHT. LONDON, M*,y 26.-Freda Graham was sentenced to six months imprisonment for damaging five pictures in the National Gallery, the, .pretext be ng that it was a protest against the King not receiving the deputation. Mary Spencer received a similar sentence for the outrage at the Academy; and several others four months for window smashing.

WASHINGTON, May 26. Britain, the United States and Netherlands have agreed that the acquisition of Tampico oil properties by persons who have taken advantage ot the absence of the real owners during hostilities should oq repudiated by the three countries.

RESERVOIRS BURST. (Received this day at 11.56 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 26.—An irrigation dam at Hatchtown, in Utah, broke owing to a land-slide. The flood rushed down the Savier River Valley. Messages bv telephone and horsemen warned settlers It is not believed that any loss ot life'resulted, but hundreds are homeless. It is feared that another reservoir further down the valley has also broken.

A MATTER OF TAXATION. BERLIN, May 26..-Addressing the Navy League at Breslau, Professor Wolf alleged that Mr. Lloyd George s taxes had driven capital out of Britain which country had almost reached the limit in indirect taxation. Germany's taxable reserves were grcate rand more inexhaustible than Britain's.

OIL FO RTHE ADMIRALTY. LONDON", May 26.—The Admiralty memorandum on the Anglo-Persian oil deal been issued. It states that it is iumortant and essential that the navy shall secure and control oil supplies Government have two directors on the Board with the power of veto, which will only Jae exercised in the national interest's. DEFENCES COMPLETED. LONDON, May 26.—The Admiralty has completed the defence of Cromarty Firth, the work having occupied twelve month's* The foul batteries contain I.he largest Runs ever erected on the British shore defences. ■ AN APPOINTMENT. LONDON, May 26.—Viscount Bryce has accepted the presidency of the Liberal Colonial Club. YALUBALE DISCOVERY. PARIS, May 26.—Dr. Tissot, of the Natural History Museum, successfully analysed serum alexine, discovered in 1890, giving immunity from tuberculosis.