BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12240, 14 June 1909, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, June 11. British labour members who visited Germany have returned. They are enthusiastic over Germany's peaceful disposition. A party of 140 clergymen and ministers, who are returning the visit of German pastors to England, had a great reception at Berlin. A French armoured cruiser, recently reported to be leaking, is missing. on her homeward voyage from the Levant. No news of her has been received for a fortnight. / - Great preparations are being made in Britain to .welcome five of the iriemr bers of the Russian Council of Empire. Upwards of a -dozen newspapers, in St. Petersburg published cordial articles on Anglo-Russian sympathies. Router's correspondent at Calcutta reports, as a sequel to the latest case of dacoity, that extremists in Bengal killed the police informer's brother as they failed to find the real informer.. In an explosion aboard the submarine A4, at Portsmouth, caused by a leakage of petrol, Lieutenant Harbottle and three others were injured. The United States Government is encouraging the investment of American capital an Chinese railways, with a view to securing greater diplomatic influence in the extension of trade. BERLIN, June 11. Prince Eulenberg has arrived in Berlin. • His prosecution on a charge ot perjury in the sensational libel action— occasioned by statements made by. Herr Harden, founder of the journal "Zukunft—which *came to a conclusion on October 29th last year, is to be resumed. .At the time of, the trial Prince Eulenberg stated that he was willing to testify on the closing day, but was unable to attend the Court owing to heart failure and_ nervous prostration. The Court dismissed the* case. At a banquet given by Western Australians the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, was present. The Hon. C .H. Rason, AgentGeneral for Western Australia, who prosided, in proposing the toast of "The Empire,' r referred to the marvellous growth of the > imperial spirit in. the colonies, which now recognised that they must take up a share of. the burden of empire and make it plain to other nations that they must calculate,, not on the strength of any portion of the Empire, but of the Empire as a whole. PARIS, June 11. The bequest of £200,000 made by M. Chauchard, the wealthy Parisian art connoisseur, to ex-President Loubet, was due to M. Loubet signing /a decree whereby M. Chauchard became a member of the Legion of Honour. M. Lou-, bet refused the bequest, whioh now goes to a hospital. An enormous concourse followed M. Cauchard's funeral. The corpse was huried in a waistcoat covered with pearl buttons worth half a million frans. Portions of. the crowd were disrespectful to the dead, many snatching flowers from ithe bier. "»