BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1914, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Press Association.] PARAFFIN WAX BATH. . PARIS, April 15. The Academy of Medrcine unanimously commends tlie efficacy of Dr. Bar the* - I>ecanfort's paraffin wax bath, heajted to 125 degrees Farenlieit, for curing rheumatism, gout, sciatica } and lumbago. ,NEW FRENCH BATTLESHIP. PAPtIS, April 15. A battleship of 29,500 tons is being laid down at Brest, to carry sixteen 13i-inch guns in -four revolving turrets. BETTING TAX DOUBLED. BERLIN, April 15. The doubling <*f the tbeffcting tax .is estimated to yield nearly £1,000,000 to the- Imperial 'Treasury, and, £250,000 to the Federated States. BRITISH MINISTER TO BRAZIL. LONDON, April 15. Sir Lionel Garden has been ap- | ■pointed Minister to Brazil, but he i will return to Mexico temporarily. STORAGE FACILITIES AT SOUTHAMPTON. LONB.QN, April 15. The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner ior New .Zealand, inspeqted the storage and handling facilities at Southampton in connection with the alteration of the New Zealand services. He found them generally satisfactory. He suggested minor improvements. TRAFFIC IN HORSEFLESH. BRUSSELS, April 16. Colonel Walker's Bill, in the English. House of Commons prohibiting the exportation of woflc-weary horses led to petitions to the Belgian authorities. The Bill seriously atfects the poor, who can only afford horse- ' flesh. Some 26,750 horses were consumed in 1913. Senator Vandeberg suggests legislation to admit 'frozen meat from British colonies. ILL-TREATED GERMAN SOLDIERS. - BERLIN, April 16. Inquiry into the suicide of two soldiers by jumping under a' tram at Neisse revealed that they were orderlies to a general -who was accustomed (to wake them in the middle of the night by pouring icy water -on their heads. .They feared punishment for showing fight. - -• • THE MAD MULLAH. ADEN,, April 16. The Mad Mullah is advancing along the coast hoping to encircle Berbera. ■ A party of Dervishes raided lihe Musaabokr pastures, seventy miles ; below Berbera, and cut the throats of ■ thirteen sleeping herdsmen. ALCOHOLISM AMONGST . CHILDREN. ST. PETERSBURG, April 16. The newspaper Novoe' Vretnya • states that 96 per cent, of boys and "S per cent, of girls, in the schools in ■ the province of -Voronjsky ,drink in- ■ toxicants. Children of tender years are found drunk,.' Measures are being taken to stamp out alcoholism . Amongst children. SENGHENYDD DISASTER. LONDON. April 16. ' In connection with the Senghenydd (Explosion the Home Office has laid an 'information against the owners and •against Edward Shaw, manager of tthe colliery, for breaches of the Mines •Act. ■ SOUTHAMPTON. SHIPPING .i SERVICE. ... , ..,• * ' .LONDON,-April.l6. sAt the beginning of August will be the port of debarkation of the New Zealand, vessels (<rf*the Shaw Savill Company. •HUGE SWINDLING CONCERN. BERLIN, April 16. The prosecution of August Subner ■and several others has begun on a of swindling an incredible of people in all parts of Germany'by means of a bogus moneylending company. Over 1000 charges saro -preferred against Subner. The <ease occupied nine months in preparation. 'CAUSES OF CANCER. ■ NEW YORK, April 16. Dt "Williams J. Mayo, president of the American. ■ Surgical Association, claims that cancer is directly due to mating too much, meat or badly cooked meat.