BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16491, 5 March 1914, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. TOBACCO TRUST.

BERLIN, March 3

The Bourse in a protest against the British American Tobacco Trust says that it is a serious danger to the German industry. AN ALARMIST ARTICLE.

BERLIN, March 4

Official circles disavow connection with an alarmist article in the “Cologne Gazette” by a St Petersburg correspondent declaring that Russia will be ready for war in the autumn of 1917.

CHEAP TELEGRAMS. PARIS, March 4,

The British Chamber of Commerce banqueted Sir John Henniker Heaton, who urged a penny a word telegrams in Europe as a preliminary to the extension of the scheme throughout the whole world. EMPIRE TRADE MARK.

LONDON, March 4

The Duke of Argyle presided at tho Empire League’s meeting at the Queen’s Hall in advocacy of an Empire trade mark. A resolution in favour was carried. It was supported by the Hon T. Mackenzie.

ATHANASIAN CREED. (Received March 5, 1.15 a.m.)

The Rev William Emery Barnes Hulsean, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, accuses tho Upper House of Canterbury Convocation of paltering with the truth in retaining the damnatory clauses of the Athanasia'n creed. He protests against the House ordering the recitation of the revised translation once a year. This ho regards as an opportunity which dees not dare to face the fact that tho damnatory clauses contain a direct untruth. SELECTION OF IMMIGRANTS.

The " Manchester Guardian ” states that there are indications that Canada is about to make efforts to stem the tide of unsuitable immigrants such as clerks and unskilled labourers and concentrate energies on agriculturalists and domestics.