CABLEGRAMS

Western Star, 19 November 1909, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

MADAME STEINHEIL' S ACQ]UIT- \ . TAL PXRIS, Nov,. 15 •Leading Parisian newspapers kept motor cars 'outside the court. When ths verdict was announced they raoed through the streets, the journalists and.tfhafieurs wildly shouting the news of acquittal Men arid women in" the 'Montmarte cafes danteed and kissed in semindelirium, the scenes resembling Mafeking The pent-up .emotion of the court resulted in a roar oi ; tonavos ; barristers throw up'their caps and climbed the benches waving " their Baddkcrehiei's. The jury acquitted Mad ame Steinhill by 9 to 3.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION • CALCUTTA, No» 15. : Earl and Lady Minlo, while viiitiag. Ahmeb,ud, were driving from the »ta- _•'. tion, and, when they were hearing the ■''-''" Raipur ga'tes} a * Hindoo in the dense crowd was seen .- throwing missiles. • They proved to be bombs. A. sergeant of the. Inniskillmy who was riding alongside the carriage, l cleverly intercepted the first .with Bis ~.. sabre. The second bombi hit the ..Vdceroy 'is permadar, who. was folding an) umbrella over Lady Minto, aia*' sell harmlessly to the ground./ The .•. v o»il . was sandy, which explains the failure : oi the bombs to explode. .The Viceroy

appeared quite unmo'.ted, and the oar- * riage drove on, completing the prearranged drive through the-city. A sweeper picked up one of the bomik*,. - -.-• and broke it against a car. The explosion sha/Utered his hand.' The ether lb|omb, unexploded, was found in the same vicinity. Both were of cocoamu't pattern, and contained picric acid. After the' outrage special precaution* were taken to safeguard the Viceroy. Vigorous inquiries are ..'being made. TheMintos arrived a* Barcda when* hi Gaikwar warmly welcomed ihem. . - LONDON, Nov, I 5 ' The Times, remarks that the attempt at assassination of the Viceroy, than whom no man has worked hurdJt on behalf of reform!, must throughout the Empire a ieeung* ot piOiound horror, mingled with intense at the "failure of the plot. Doubtless the- > Anarchists hoped, by striking head 0 f the Government, to produce such a feeling of insecurity among all metouem and officials of that. Government as would tend to paralyse administration. In^his ; they would.;hav o Lean disappoimted ; .nor can any sutih. .. menaces oause Britain to the ~. execution of reform.. But that these alone will not stop sedition and': must tie accompanied by the most stringent repression of crime, is made clearer thah ever by this !•> , fc»t outrage. The Daily News says (that nowhere

will public indignation bo more '<■'.,.gpor :/ uine over the attempt on Lord Mia 1 . lo's life than in Intlia. The inoidenst could not well have been timed with more sinister ingenuity.-The Goun- ; cii s Act Wjas about to operate, and " an amnesty was confidently antioipai- >r ed in, relation to certain political .prisoners, more especially the cases of nine Bengalese deported without trial/ The deportations were the principal: cause 0$ the persistent bitterness wbuiw on the Terfosists worked. Visapint Morley Secretary .for' India, bad a».lindane evidence that two- or three of the. deported would strongly oppose tbo Act with violence. Ihe most d£foeti/« blow a t terrorism, would, be to untried prisone/a. "-'-, > 1,,. The Standard says Abmedabad «»s • the birthplace of Dr Lalaca, whoiti Dhingi-a fatally wounded at the tlraa tie khot Sir Curzon Wyllie dead 1 ;- and thj inhabitants had publicly expressed; horror at Dbmgra's crime. The Telegraph says Ahmedabad ha» the reputation of being a prosperouw,■•'; contented and loyal city. The Tiimesi, states that the foounb struck the jemadar's wrist. OTTAWA, Nov. 16 Sir Wilfrid Laurier, speaking during , the debjate on the Address in 'Reply, said that;Parliament was unanimous-; ly committed to the organisationof a Canadian navy. It seemed. to himJ !tihat - Australia and'New ..Zealand'- would, . come round to the Canadian viewer , £lc added that the Empire could re-; -? main strong not by telling (the, dauigh- > ter.•nations to /revolve like satellites around the Motherland, but by al^ofW- :; irag< each to develop to /the fuUeS.t Jso as to bo a source of strength N to. tm» .:, whole. Hte S'troritgly ' criticised 'Mr MonVs attitude. Opponents to tlba , naval plan were overlooking their duties and responsibilities as Cauiad- , ians and Britishers towards the'Empire. . LONDON, Nov. 16 ; The three contingent Dreadnoughts will be bnilt at 'Blswick, Clydebank; v aaid Yarrow yards, tfe contingent Dreadnought cruiser at, Elswick, or by the Walter Coinpany of Chapstow.