BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13316, 19 June 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Prets Association-By Telegraph-Copyright DEFECTIVE SHELLS. LONDON, June 17. The War Office investigating the reported disquieting defects of the steel casings of lyddite shells. Many thousands issued are being examined. THE RED CROSS SOCIETY. At- the final" sitting of - the Red Cross Jiocietv Conference, Turkey lodged a strong objection to the Red Cross symbol, and pleaded for the substitution of a red crescent for relief work amongst- Mussulmans. The Conference refused the request. SHIPPING AMALGAMATION. Messrs John Brown and Co., of Sheffield and Clydebank, are amalgamating ivith Harland and Wolff, of Belfast. This will be the largest shipping firm in the world, the wages totalling £2,350,000 annually. THE OLYMPIA HORSE SHOW. Of the champion trophies at the Olymph Horse Show sixteen went'to England, two to tin* United States, and one to Holland. Ninety-one piizes were -awarded to England. fourteen to the United States, two to Canada, one to Holland, and one to Belgium. THE GERMAN SCANDAL. BERLIN, June 17. Herr Harden, in the newspaper " Zuk.unft." declared that the insinuations against Prince Eulenburg were not aimed at the hitter's moral character, but- intended to break through the ving, which a clique of mystics attempted to form round the Crown Prince- H<> brought the facts under the Kaiser's knowledge. The action of the Kaiser in banishing the incriminated persons from the Court had won the approbation of the public. RECORD MOTOR RACE. PARIS. June 17. News Iris been reca : ved that the competitors in the motor nice from Pekin to Paris have replied Kalgan. a Chinese town 110 miles north-west- of Pekin. En route tliey (ravelled through morasses of deep sand and ovrr mountains. v MINISTER RESIGNS. PARIS, June 18. M. Sarrant. Under-Secretary for the Interior. who is the deputy for Narbonne, and a winegrower. has resigned. H*i? withdrawal is likvly to weaken the Minis try. R"rv>ivi'd 10.24 p.m.. June 18th. DISMISSAL OF SCHMJTZ. SAN FRANCISCO. June 18. As a result of his* convict-ion. the Mayor (Schmitz) has been dismissed from office.