, 1913-04-26
KILOGRAMS
ST. CROIX T

LONDON, ApTIl AOfu-NI. A'OJu O6OIRO
anticipated a banner financial year. The
Budget will not contain any new taxes.
The King and Queen are visiting Crewe
Hall and the Potteries. The King knighted
Mr.. T~urnbull, Superintendent of the North
Western Railway, but Mr.. Manning. Mayor
of the Borough, was not knighted, presum-
ably because he is q signalman. Neverthe-
less, he received the King and bore himself
with dignity among a distinguished company.
MIR. Rose, solicitor to the Poulsen Wire
less Coy, testifying before the Marconi
Committee, denied Mr.. Godfrey Isaacs' sug-
costing that the Poulsen interests had at
tackled Ministers for selfish reasons.
In the House of Commons Mr.. McKenna's
hunger strike Bill has passed the Committee
stage by 2O8 votes to 81. All amendments
were rejected or withdrawn.
Lord Robert Cecil will today present pc
titions in the House of Common for wo-
mems suffrage from q societies, and Mr..
Keir Hardie will present petitions from the
Women's Labour League and allied Socle-
ties. Together the petitions represent lOO,-
900 women who are not among the mihtants.
The suffragettes have burned IL huge hay
rick at orshnm, Wiltshire, believing it to
be the property Of Mr.. Hobhouse, who ad-
vised s~uffrngettes to burn things, initiating
the methods employed by men, but in
reality it belonged to Mr.. Maurice Knapp
the father-in-law of Mr.. Hobhouse. They
also ignited the football grand stand at Til
ford, but The flames were e%xtinguished.
The Duchess of Bedford, who lately re-
fused to pay taxes for Princes Skating
Rink as a protest against the manner
in which the Cabinet treats female fran
chise, has been diStrained upon and q silver
cup taken in payment. Goods belonging to
8 members OF the Women's Tax Resistance
League are to be sold in various parts Of
the United Kingdom.
The Cunard Liner "Aquitania" was launch
ed yesterday, the christening ceremony be-
ing performed by the Countess Of Derby.
She is the largest British ship, and twenty
feet longer than the Hamburg-American
Liner "Imperator,' and will, it is believed,
prove faster than the "Lpsitania."
The British Labour newspapers publish
special accounts of the German scandal, and
allege that Krupps made their three million
pounds profits as the result of paying army
and navy officers to stump Germany in an
anti-British campaign. They also allege that
the makers of military supplies kept an
intelligence bureau to apportion contracts,
and hat all bids were fraudulent except the
one successful, WAlcn palu u cOmLnlSSlOn 10
the Others from it's excessive profits. It is
also stated that Krupps sold armour to the
United States at 800 marks per ton cheaper
than to Germany.
Berlin advices state that the Reichstag
has reduced some appropriations of the
Military Bill, and has dropped the Com
mandants of Dresden, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe
and Stuttgart, despite the protest of General
Won Heeringen, Minister for War. The
Clericals have introduced a resolution, &C.
companying the Military Budget, which
calls for al investigation into all armament
contracts, with n recommendation for the
ending of abuses. Herr Liebknecht, in an
article in the "Vorwarts," extends his dis
closures and charges. and declares that
Germany is suffering only like England,
Italy and the United States. The situation
has the capacity for causing the dismissal
of the Minister for War, or even the Ministry.
Greece ana Servia have concluded an ar
mistice like Bulgaria's, and the repatriation
of prisoners has begun. Greece LAS. sent