BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

West Coast Times, 19 April 1911, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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THE FRENCH SOCIALISTS. PARIS, April, 18.—At a congress of Collectivist Socialists, M, Janres, (the French Socialist leader) applauded the policy of M. Mom's, the new Premier, m compared with that of 31. Briand, to* late Premier. 31. Jaures said that the submission of the railway companies to the_ Government's present demands regarding the refntatemcnt of the strikers would mean a victory for the workers.

SUCCESS OF NEW ZEALAND ARTIST. PARIS, April, 18—3Irs Rolls Fisher * New Zealander, has had a picture hung in the old Salon , SOUTH AFRICAN LANGUAGE QUESTION. LONDON, April 17.—Sir H. 3luir, the Cape representative at the Education Conference, in the course of an interview, said that the bilingual diffiaulty was nothing compared with the problem of providing a common policy of native education in the four onion provinces, where the status of the natives differed greatly. A TERRIBLE AFFAIR. ROME, April 17.—A youth was arrested for eloping with a farmer’s daughter near Naples. He was refeaaed on bail. The farmer, with his sons, seized the youth and beat him into insensibility. He was then thrown in a courtyard where dogs horribly mutilated and partially devoured him. The youth subsequently died and his assailants ffed. HYDROPHOBIA. MADRID, April 17.—An epidemic of hydrophobia is raging in the provinces of Pcntevedra and Corunna, where there have been several deaths. A FATAL FALL. LONDON, April 16.—“ Peggy” Fulton, daughter of the Recorder of London, who fell from the balcony at Johannesburg on Friday, has died from Ms injuries. CHINESE LOAN. PEKIN, April 17. —The British, German and American bankers are participating in a £10,000,000 five per centum loan for the purpose of establishing currency, reform, and development of Manchuria. The issue price is £BS. i

OPPOSITION TO ZIONIST PROPAGANDA.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 16—The propaganda of Zionism, under German auspices, is being violently opposed on the ground that the movement foreshadows a German economic conquest and exploitation of Mesopotamia. RESULT OF A MISPRINT. PARIS, April 17.—A misprint in a popular medical book caused the_ death of a man. His widow has recovered damages from the author, who, with tho chemist compounding the prescription, has been sentenced to three and one month's imprisonment respectively. BOYS' FATAL DUEL. ROME, April 16.—The perusal of accounts of remarkable duels led two lads, aged ten and eleven years respectively, to fight with canes tipped with sharpened umbrella ribs. The elder lad was killed his brain being penetrated A CARDSHABPER. BERLIN, April 16.—Count Giesbert Wolff Mettemich, who was arrested with two others on December 15th, for enrdsharping, has been sent to a hospital, with a view to ascertaining his mental condition. THE BRITISH NAVY. LONDON, April 16. Tho Social Democratic Conference passed a resolution favouring an adequate navy. OBITUARY. LONDON, April 17.—The deaths are recorded of Madame Judic, the wellknown actress of Paris, and of Sir Henry Tascherean, ex-Chief Justice of Canada.

BERLIN, April 16.—The Lokal Anzexger announces the death of Lady Halle,