, 1913-04-30
TkLEGRAM MS
ST. CROIN

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London, April 26lh-In the House of Com
mons Yesterday Mr.. Samuel, introducing the
Post Office Budget, declared himself favour
able to universal penny post, which he esti-
mated would cost half !, million pounds an
nualIy. He stated that he had uusuccessfuIly
sought the support Of Mr.. LLOYD George for
reduction OF the rates between England and
the Continent. The loss upon the penny rate
between England and the United States had,
he said, fallen from 1876, 900 pounds to 1913, 900
pounds annually. He announced that a new
telephone cable is being laid to Belgium and
that telephone communication with Germany
was under negotiation. He deplored the de-
lay regarding the Imperial wireless scheme
and said he had secured sites for six stations,
subject to the approval of the contractors
res ponsihle for the success of the inslalla-
tions. The experts, he said, had already ex-
hausted the time fol recommendation.
The ROYAL Mail Steamer "Aragon7 has
sailed for South America With guns and am
munition and with personel from he naval
reserve to work them, if necessary. This is
the first time such equipment has been made
during peace.
Fine King has pardoned Engineer Knox,
who was dismissed in December last by the
Directors of the North Eastern r ulway for
drunkenness.
Mr.. H1laIre Belize, formerly editor of the
eyewitness, testItyIng before the Mar
conf Committee, contladicted MIR. Gran
VlIle's statement OF anti-semitism published
yesterday, oyIng he WAS unable to conceive
of ANYBODY less jewish thau Mr.. Lloyd
George. He refused to testify regarding
the authorship Of The articles in the eye
Witness because it would be prejudicial to
MIR. Chesterlon, the editor succeeding him,
and who was now facing a criminal prosecu-
ton. MIR. Belize said his articles were hon
estly motived by public considerations The
Committee consulted privately regarding
proceeding aou9 these lines, but its decision
was not announced ana no further witnesses
were called. Mr., Harvey, NJ z. for Roch-
dale, has replaced Mr. Primrose as a member
Of the committee. This is the fourth change
i'll the personel Of the committee. It's deci-
sion will not be reported before midsummer,
The Standard reports a ~sutfragette plan TO
burn Harrow, where SI Charles Lush resides,
and to kidnap his son, also to burn the resi-
dence of Mr., Blair Nj. p, who defeated Mr.,
Lansbury as member for Bow and Bromley
in November last. A bomb has destroyed au
immense window i'll the Free Trade Hall at
Manchester. The police suggest this out
rage was intended as Il welcome for Mr.. John
Burns, who was scheduled for u speech a few
hours later, but the fuse was badly timel.
A bomb has exploded in the Offices Of the
Newcastle County Council.
The House of Lords has passed Mr..
NcKenna's Hunger Strike Bill, upon Lord
Haldaue's plea for no opposition. Lord Sails
bury declared that he accepted no RESPONSE
bility for it's passage, but he did not oppose
the Bill.
I. the by-election at Shrewsbury vice the
late Sir Clement Hill, Mr.. Lloyds, Uuionist,
was elected with 2,412 votes, MI, Morris,
independent, receiving 1927 votes,
Advices from Copenhagen state that Prince
AxeI, a cousin of the KING, made a bad de-
scent i'll an %aeroplane after an hours flight,
in which he assembled TO II height of 1.800
feet. The wind threw him against a barrier,
smashing the machine, but the Prince, al
though badly shaken, escaped death by
skllful Jump.
A despatch from Las Pnlmas states that
Mr.. Brucker did not make his proposed
fight because the tanks, believed to contain
hydrogen for his balloon, were really filled
with zoe, 600 litres of alcohol, which had
been Struggled, causing a loss of revenue Of
eight thousand pounds.
Paris advices state that the French def