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Mataura Ensign, 23 April 1913, Page 2

I «£W3 OF THE WOK&.£> <>' : BELGIAN FRANCHISE STRIKE. DRUNKEN SOLDIERS' CRIME. BY ELECTKIC TJiLKGRAni. —COrTEICUT. , PSU ONiI'ST) I'HUSS ASSOCIATION ! BR I SBELS. April 22. Two drunken soldiers with 60 cartridges apiece decreed and ran amok in the streets of Fore-hies (Leinarchc). They kept on shooting For hours, shoui"Long live the strike!" I They killed a chasseur and escaped to ( the woods. MOTORING FATALITY. THREE PEOPLE DROWNED. BERNE, April 21. I A motor-car containing Dr. Dubois, f his wife and child and a friend, was precipitated over a parapet at Ekuirier, i and fell 25ft. into a river. All were drowned except the baby. 1 GERMAN POLITICS. * THE ARMAMENT CONTRACT,-!. BERLIN, April 22. The Centre Party in the Reichstag is moyijig for the appointment of a committee .of inquiry into the armament contracts. A'-'certain section of the press charges General von Heeringen (Minister for War) with bargaining with. Dr. Liebknecht, who in the Reichstag declared that Tvrupps and the manufacturers of Mauser ritles had resorted to illicit methods with a view to inducing tho leading organs of the French press to create an anti-Gcrmaq sentiment, their object being to bring aboiit ft ll increase of German armaments. The newspaper 'German ia' lnnts that tho Army is plotting General von Heeringen's downfall. BRITISH POLITICS. COLLECTION OP TAXES. / LONDON, April 22. The House of Commons read for the third time the Provisional Collection of Taxes Bill. SIR STUART SAMUEL'S SEAT. LONDON, April 22 In the House of Commons Hon. H. H. Asquith (Prime Minister) moved, "That Sir Stuart Samuel's seat be declared vacant." The Privy Council decided that Sir Stuart Samuel, M.P. for Whitecaaael, must resign, as a result of the 'hiding of the Select Parliamentary Committee set up to inquire into tho propriety of his retaining his seat in the of Commons in view of tho purchases of silver made for the India Office through the firm of Samuel, Montagu vidiCo., in which he is a partner. He will recontest the seat. HOW THE MOTOR BANDITS DIED. PARIS, April 21. In regard to the motor bamlns' execution, when Soudy quitted his cell he shouted "Au revoir!" Callemin, who was trembling, staled in a dazed fashion at the crowd, oxclaiming, "This is a beautiful death lor a man!" Monier ejaculated "Good-bye!"' The three executions occupied feiir and a-half minutes. "THOU SHALT NOT KILL." PARIS, April 22. Lines of guards barred all the struts leading to the prison to prevent any attempt at rescue. Monier bequeathed a number of philosophical works to tho Municipal Library and a revolver to the museum with instructions that the words "Thou shalt not kill" be engraved on the butt. TOLL OF THE AIR. PARISj April 22. Liev. tenant De Blamont, a niihtaiy abator, was killed while flying at Yjiiace 'clay. THE SUFFRAGETTHS. LONDON, April 22. Petitions representing 100,'Jv.K) .voirnn will be presented to the House of Commons to-morrow requesting permission for women to appear at the bar t.f the House to plead for enfranchisement. Distraint has been levied on the Duchess of Bedford for -ehtsiag payment of taxes for a period of eight months as a protest -against nononfranchisement. THE MARCONI CONTRACT. , LONDON, April 22 At the sittings of the Parliamentary Committee inquiring into the c< nLact between the British Post Office and tbe Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Company, Mr Rose, tho Poulsen Wireless Telegraphy Company's solicitor, flatly denied Mr Godfrey Isaacs' (presidont cf the Marconi Company) suggestions that Poulsen's engineered the press campaign against the Marconi system and the Ministers'. Mr Rose denied every fact which Mr Godfrey Isaacs produced regarding the press campaign. He added that Major Archer-Shee, M.P. (U.), refused a financial interest in the concern. He was merely told facts regarding the Poulsen sysetem. BRITAIN AND AMERICA. WASHINGTON, April 22. In 'the Senate Mr O'Gorman (chairman of the Inter-Ocean Canals Committee) endorsed Senator _ Chamberlain's proposal for the abrogation of the HayPauncefote and the Clayton-Bulwer treaties. Mr O'Gorman declared that there was a great possibility of the Senate adopting the proposal as the easiest way out of the difficulty created by the British protest. OCEAN LEVIATHAN LAUNCHED. LONDON. April 22. The Cunard liner Aquitania has been launched at Clydebank. She is the largest vessel ever built in Britain. Her tonnage is 47,000, her speed 24' knots, she.carries 3250 passengers and 1000 of a crew and several motor' lifeboats. One hundred thousand reople witnessed the launching of tbe leviath sn. INDIAN VICEROY'S ESCAPE. CALCUTTA. April 21. Lady Harding© (wife 'if the Viceroy) will devote the thanksgiving fund for the Viceroy's escape to the entertainment of all children in the Indian hospitals on the Viceroy's birthday. For Children's Hpekinu Ooiigh at night, Woods' Great Peppermin Cure, Is 6d. fe 6d.