TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 February 1912, Page 3

TO-DAY'S NEWS OF THE WORLD.

* [by emotbio tblbgbaph—coptkiqht. ] [P«R PHJCBB ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 8.50 a.m.) STRIKES—A SUGGESTION. LONDON", February 11. Dr Thomas, at the South Wales Conciliation Board, suggested that in future agreements each party be pledged to pay £100,000 in the event uf an agreement being broken. The miners' leadors declare that the suggestion is impracticable. NONCONFORMISTS AND HOME RULE. The Rev. R. F. Horton, formerly chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, writing to The Times, says that Nonconformists in England and Wales understand Ulster's dread of Rome. He adds that Nonconformists feel compelled by political principles to support Home Rule. If Ulster's fears were realised that a shifting population would take place, he personally hoped the large Irish population in English cities would drift back to Ireland and Protestants in Ireland return to England and Scotland. PAUPERS' COMPLAINT. An agitation has been caused in Liverpool workhouse owing to the committee refusing to substitute foreign for home-killed meat, and thus saving four thousand pounds annually. The committee alleged that the shrinkage of imported meat in cooking made home-killed moat cheaper. Tests, however, have shown home-killed lost 193 ounces per ten pounds, chilled 17J ounces, and foreign meat 19£ ounces. The agitation continues.

FRANCE AND GERMANY. STRONG SPEECH BY M. CLEMENCFAU. PARIS, February 11. By 212 votes to 42 the Senate approved the Franco-German treaty. M. Clcmeiimni said that since 1870 Germany .had five times threatened war without provocation. He condemned the cession of tihe Congo and repudiated the idea of a rapprochement. (Chronicle Note: Georges Clemenceau is one of the most striking personalities in French politics. Ho ha s overthrown Cabinets, raised other??, and ihas been Premier). DISASTROUS SPANISH FLOODS. MADRID. February 11 King Alfonso received an ovation while touring in the flooded districts of Andalusia. The, floods at Seville have rendered fifteen thouasnd persons idle. Much merchandise was destroyed at Hnelva. Torrential rains continue. Eiirhtren hundred square miles between Cordnvn and the Sea Are flooded.

TSAR'S ROYAL VISITORS. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 11. i'Jie King of Montenegro and Pnnce Peter are visiting uiie Tsar. ANGLO-GERMAN MENT. BERLIN, February 11. The Kaiser has sent Lord Haldauc a bronze bust of himself, as a token of the interest Lord Haldunc has taken in the Anglo-German rapprochement. The Berliner Zeicung says that only in the English brain can the world position be pictured as in Mr Churchill's speech. Germans refuse to continue to pay an awesome respect to this old British nightmare. BRIBING A SOLDIER. BERLIN, February 11. Barsanti, an Italian, lias been sentenced to ten months' imprisonment at Leipsic for bribing a soldier to sell service revolvers. He was acquitted on a charge of espionage. FIERCE RIOTING IN BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, February 11. A mob of coal miners at Mons attempted to liberate two strikers, who had been arrested for looting. Some gendarmos fired rifles in the air and the mob dispersed after several soldiers had been injured by stones. In another part of the town five hundred men pillaged a cart. A detachment of chasseurs charged the mob with bayonets. The enraged crowd attacked them, forcing the soldiers to fly. Tho troops subsequently rallied, and several rioters were wounded.

AT LIBERTY. LONDON, February 11. Violet Oharlesworth, who was sentenced on the 21st of February. 1910, to three years' imprisonment for obtaining money by false pretences, has been liberated.