BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10416, 21 March 1912, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 21. 10 a-m.) FRANCE IN MOROCCO. LONDON, Marcli 20. The French Chamber of Deputies has voted £2.400,000 for military operations in Morocco. SUFFRAGETTE SENTENCED. A suffragette at Pitfield has been sentenced to six months in the second division. The magistrate said the sentence would have been more severe but that tlio Accused was suffering from illness. ESPIONAGE. Four alleged German spies have been arrested in the precincts o[ 8t Helen's fort, the eastern defence of the Islo of Wight. TOM MANN'S ARREST. In the House of Commons, the extreme Radicals sharply heckled Sir Rufus Isaacs regarding Tom Mann's arrest, on the ground that it was interference with free speech. "MONTE CARLO" WELLS. " Monte Carlo" Wells and. l tho woman Peris have been ordered to bo extradited on a charge of fraud. DIVORCED. The Court of Session, sitting at Edinburgh, granted- a divorce for adultery in the case of Stewart Gray, one of the Hunger Marchers. CARD-SHARPING. A Berlin message says that Wolff Metteriiich was acquitted on the charge of card-sharping, but found him guilty of defrauding a Traitor, and "was sentenced to a week's imprisonment.