CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 4 March 1914, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

ALSACE-LORRAINE. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) rpi BERLIN, March 3. Ihe League for the defence of Al-sace-Lorraine numbers 6000, and demands that every German newspaper publishing inaccurate statements concerning the province shall be criminally prosecut-cd.

BARQUE CAPSIZES. Received March 4, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, March 3. ihc barque Tasman, en route from u' e - v^ a^c to Melbourne, capsized in the North Sea. Several of the crew are missing. , A GOOD JUMP. Savage, a Westralian, won the long jump at the Oxford University sports covering 22ft 4in. THE TOBACCO TRUST. Received March 4, 8.15 a,m. BERLIN, March 3. Many thousands demonstrated at the Bremen bourse as a protest against the. British-American Tobacco Trust, which is a serious danger to German industry. CZAR'S ANTI-ALCOHOL POLICY. ST. PETERSBURG, March 3. • The Czar, in pursuance of his antialcohol 'policy, has abrogated the custom whereby Czars drank the liealtli of troops after reviews and parades. ARMAMENT EXPENDITURE. Received March 3, 5.50 p.m. LONDON, March 2. Mr Churchill, in introducing the supplementary navy estimates of 21 millions, said it was a serious but unavoidable increase. The oil reserve cost half a million and there was now enough for three years of peace or a year's war. Ttie acceleration of battleships to cover the delay caused by the loss of the Canadian ships accounted for £450.000 and quicker work by contractors £1,000,000. FEWER ARMY RECRUITS.

LONDON, March 3. The Army Report states that recruits for the regulars for the year ending September decreased 222-5 as compared with the previous year and the special reserves 2937. This is mainly due to the continued activity of emigration.

A SENSIBLE SUGGESTION. LONDON, March 3. Lord Willoughby de Broke has introduced a bill in the House of Lords applying compulsory military training to the rich and leaving it voluntary to the poorer classes.