BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12709, 21 March 1911, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association.- -Copyright.) LONDON, March 19. The King paid a surprise visit to Hampstead . Garden suburb. He was | greatly interested in the advances made I in'town planning. The King n.nd Queen sail for India in the P. and 0. steamer Medina. NEW YORK, March 19. Androw Toth, who was sentenced at Pittsburg to life imprisonment on a cargo of murder, lias beten liberated affar serving twenty years. It has been proved that bo was innocent of the charge-. The law is being enforced at Wilmington, Delaware, under which petty j thieves are punished with the lash and embezzlers are being imprisoned. - I It is st&ted that the Toronto citizens accused before a Chicago grand jury *n I connection with the Alaskan coal lands ■frauds are nob extraditable, and it is espected 'the caso against them will be abandoned. RIO, March 19. The authorities are alarmed at the plague epidemic. Twenty cases have been reported at Portoaligra. TOKIO, March 19. The Japanese newspapers support Russians, demands upon China. OTTAWA. March 19. It is officially stated that th© Canadian Northern Transcontinental Railway will be completed in January 1914. HAMBURG, March 19. A,/ Mnglisch commercial traveller and j four Germans have been arrested for espionage in connection with the plans of buildings and battleships. PARIS, March 20. The police made a raid on Montmartre, and arrested 165 undesirables, both men arid women, mostly Germans. Forty-five were carrying revolvers. The non-inclusion of Aube in the delimited champagne area has led to the ' i^sisrnations of numerous municipalises. ' The red flag was hoisted dn the majority of villages. Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies prevented now mining concessions being granted for three years. Many rich seams are awaiting working, despite the fact that nineteen million francs worth of coal is annually imported. The outbreak^ of diphtheria at Oundle was caused by • the introduction of germs into houses by cats, which had eaten infected pigeons, landing from Fiance. ROME, March 19. There has been a. defection of Radicals in connection with xhe electoral reform measure. Two Radical members have resigned, and a Cabinet crisis has resulted. PEKING. March 20. Jno Chinese police tried to enter the quarantine lines at Fushan, killing a Japaneso sentry. A < rowd of Japanese then attacked i>o police, lilting and wounding ir-any.