SECOND EDITION. GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 30 September 1913, Page 5

SECOND EDITION. GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

LATE HERR AUGUST BEBEL. at ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT TIMES—SYDNEY SIN SPECIAL CAULKS. Received September 30, 8.30 a.m. BERLIN, Sejit. 29. The Socialist Congress at Stuttgart (the capital of the kingdom of Wurtemburg) rejected a proposal to erect a monument to the late famous leader of the German Social Democratic Party (Herr August Bebel).

THE SALE OF MARGARINE. i BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received September 30, 10 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 29. Captain Collins, C.M.G. (Official Secretary in Great Britain of the Commonwealth of Australia) has invited Hon. T. Mackenzie (New Zealand High Commissioner), tho Agents-General Butter Committee, the representatives of the Irish and Scottish Agricultural Organisation Societies, the British Dairy Farmers Association and National Dairy Association of New Zealand to confer regarding the question of margarine, especially the proposals with reference to the prohibition of coloring, requiring shopkeepers to have separate compartments or counters for its sale and increasing the penalties for selling margarine as butter.

MURDERER EXECUTED. BERLIN. Sept. 28. Strasser, tlio murderer of Major Lewinski, was decapitated in tlie prison courtyard. He died repentant.

The tinsmith named Strasser, who shot <k\ad the Prussian Military At tache at Munich, Major von Lewinski, in the street in Munich last May, and who mortally wounded a police inspector was sentenced to death in July. Strasser, after suffering 80 convictions, became, according tp his own confession, so embittered with tho world that ho determined in revenge to commit suicide and to take someone with him "into the next world." He did not mind who his victim was provided it was someone of the better class. One day ho saw Major Lewinski. Although lie was only a major, said Strasser, he was a Prussian and wore uniform, and seemed on all accounts a suitable victim. Strasser watched ami waited for liim for several days before shooting him. In answer to questions Strasser said he had not received the money found on him from any party, but bad stolen it. He said he was not a Socialist.

THE BRESLAU SCANDAL. BERLIN, Sept. 2K. Seventeen additional arrests have been made at Breslau, Germany, in connection with tho recently-reported boarding-school scandal.

Previous massages stated :—An extraordinary scandal is causing consternation in Breslau. Fourteen persons have been arrested for immorality. It is alleged that they inveighed 72 young schoolgirls at various times to a house at Augusta-Strasso. An army offificor, a police official, an architect, and four tradesmen have committed suicide, fearing arrest. A shocking feature of the scandal is the- allegation that the parents in several instances were aware of and even connived at their daughters ruin. The majority of the prisoners are men of position and wealth, and there axe indications of a terrible story not yet fully told. It is also stated that the police officer who committed suicide was especially entrusted to detect offences under the White Slave traffic laws.

BRITISH LAND CAMPAIGN, Received September 30, noon. LONDON, Sept. 29. Mr J. M. Robertson (Parliamentary Secretary to tho Board of Trade), shaking at Howdon-on-Tync, said that the object of Hon. D. Lloyd George's (Chancellor of the Exchequer) campaign wa.. to create 90,000 small holdings which would involve reform of rating in order that the new houses and machinery should not be overburdened.