, 1913-03-08

Herr Knud Valloe, first clerk in the Min
istry of Agriculture, has been appointed
Amtmand Of Bornholm.
The est Croix" left London yesterday.
London, March 7th.-Sir Thomas Lipton's
challenge to race for the Americas cup in
1914 is under the same rules as previously.
Mr.. Nicholson is to be the designer of the
yacht, which is to be named shamrock
Fourth and Captain Sycamore will COM
mand her. Comments in New York are cor
dial.
The regulations regarding airships have
not been received altogether seriously. Bri-
fish timOrousness is contrasted with Germn-
nys approval of the sale to England of the
ParsevaI Hirship, with permission to dupli-
cate as often as desired, upon the payment
of q royalty. There is some chaff upon the
revelation Of the complete list of strategic
localities, not before published, which mir
ships must not approach, and also comment
upon the prohibition of cross Channel flights.
Some tenderness is felt regarding continent
tai redicule.
Mrs, Pankhurst has collapsed and has can
celled her engagements and gone to Paris to
recuperate. The announcement was made
at a meeting at West Hampstead, which was
d opersei by students scattering snuff, set
ing all sneezing. A free fight followed but
was suppressed. Mrs. Drummond COUNSEL
ed all to oppose the County Council! Progress
slve Candidates, in protest against MIR. John
Burns's opposition to the suffragettes,
A meeting held by Mr.. John Burns at Is
hDgton had to be suspended during the
election of suffragettea, whom he ridiculed,
saying that the newspaper reports of such
trifing incidents gave the subject undeserved
lmnOrt0uca (tOOtIOJlnO bn SnI6 that RTl-
fish newspapers, i'll initiating American SEN
sationalism, were reproducing in England
the repugnance of the better class Of Amerl-
cans for public life, and that unless the cam
paign Of calumny stops, British politics
would degenerate into neglect and corruption
through the refusal of respectable men to
serve the public under such conditions.
Miss Ella Stevenson,a sutfraSette, has been
sentenced to nine months Imprisonment Tor
putting phosphorus in pillar boxes.
Our Railway Unions, which will soon
amalgamnte, have presented u united ulti-
matum to the railway companies, stating
that Instructions should be given III writing
whenever employees are ordered to act con-
trary to the printed rules. A strike is not
expected, but the companies are preparing
for such all event.
Advices from Paris state that the Cabinet
has accepted the action Of the supreme WAR
Council, as reported yesterday, which will
add 100000 men to the present 578,783.
Dispatches from Berlin state that the
Governments Army Bill will add $4,000 re-
cruits to the present annual contingent, thus
increasing the number of rffectives by 1850 .
and making a total Of 100000 men. The con-
s~tructlon of additional barracks has been or
dered by telegraph. Opposition to the new
taxes is growing, practically the entire Liber-
al press protesting and accordingly the Gov
eminent proposes to convert the property tax
into IN Imperial income tax.
While the German fleet was returning
from night maneuvres, without lights, and
shortly after the Kaiser's departure from an
inspection of Heligoland, the cruiser ''York'
rammed and sank torpedo boat No. SITS,
causing the loss of seventy-one men, in
Guiding two officers. Fifteen of the crew
were rescued. The torpedo boat destroy
ers had attempted to pass Though the in
tervals between the battleships, but mis-
calculated both speed and distance.
The Balkan Allies are coDferring regard
ing the Powers inquiry on behalf of Tur-
key. 1t is reported that the Powers dis
agree regarding the question of an indem-
niry, which is opposed by England and
France.