BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

West Coast Times, 22 June 1912, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Xr«B PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.! TOE EMPIRE’S TRADE. LONDON, June 20.—Sir. G. Reid, presiding at the Australasian dinner at the Trocadero, in proposing the Toast of the British and Australasian Trade, strongly pleaded for an c-xtenion of Inter-Imperial trade. He pointed out there was a growing desire in European countries to relax tho restriction interferring with the expansion of Australian and New Zealand Trade with tho world. PARIS, Juno 20. Patrieilli, an Italian, was sentenced to penal servitude for life for bombing a jewellers establishment at Coulogne, Sui sene.

CHINESE LOOTERS AT WORK. PEKIN, Juno 20.—A mixed brigade at Mnkdil mutinied and indulged in indiscriminate shooting throughout the night. The banks and jewellers shops were looted and burned. Hundreds of houses were destroyed. Foreigners property was unmolested. Chinese guards have been posted in the city which is now quiet.

APPEAL DISMISSED. LONDON, June 20.—Tho House of Lords unanimously dismissed with costs, Canon Thompson’s appeal in the Norwich communion case. DOUBLE SUICIDE. VIENNA, June 20—The disparity of their ages prevented Countess Alice Alberta, Count Lonya’s niece, marrying Baron Bv.orthy and both committed suicido by shooting. themselves with a revolver in a railway carriage.