, 1913-12-10
TEI.EGRAAiS
ST. 0 STATION.

He declared that, if the nations continued
their expenditures during the next decade
at the same rate as now, he saw cause tor
the greatest disquietude, and he regarded 1t
as among the most serious questions con-
fronting the Democracy. The demands were
heavy for national education and rellet from
local taxation, and it might be necessary to
widen the scope ct the Income Tax, but the
best hope for averting this was the reduction
OF ornaments by concerted pressure by all
peoples OF the civilized world upon all who
were responsible.
Adyices from Belfast state that quanti-
ties Of munitions of war have been removed
in automobiles. The authorities have seized
eight cases Of arms and eighty-nine cases Of
ammunition, and arrested a Miss LaWler,
whose baggage contained one hundred rifles.
She explained that her father is a Dublin
gun dealer aud the ordinary freight was
TOO slow for the trade on account. of the trans
port strike. The Nationalists think them
selves more preiudiced by the Governments
proclamation than The Orangemen, the latter
being already armed.
Al Dublin q Conference of the employers
aud employees sat for twenty hours without
result. The employers offered to r~einstate
eighty per cent Of the strikers, but the en-
9ioyes demanded a total reinstatement, Mr..
Wilson. President of the International Sea-
mems Union, hos issued q pamphlet de-
nouncing Larkinism as being responsible for
the failure to reach a settlement.
Mrs. Pankhurst hus been released, the doc
tors certifying that she is suffering from
plenrisy. She is on a weeks parole aud has
gone into hospital.
Countess De Ia War; has petitioned for q
restoration OF coniugal rights, preliminary
10 a suit for divorce.
Dispatches from Wellington, New Zealand,
state that the Naval Defence Bill has passed
its second reading by 81 to Fl votes. Mr..
Allen, Minister of Defence, said that only
Australia had performed its part of the
Agreement If 1909, and the only battleship
of the China unit was the "New Zealand"
The Admiralty had decided that submarines
and destroyers were unsuitable, and he con
sidered that an Imperial squadron based
upon Gibraltar was unsatisfactory, as also
dependence upon q foreign Power for peace
IN the Pacific. Sir Joseph Ward, the former
Prime Minister, quoted three consecutive
first naval Lords in approval of a single I'M
perial navy, and stated that the Admiralty
would have adhered to the Agreement of
1909, if Ministers had not talked of Il New
Zealand navy. He considered it better to
pay a fixed sun for protection by the worlds
greatest navy. Nlr. Massey, the Prime Min
lister, denied contemplating either q sepi rate
navy, OF an Australian partnership, and stat
ed that The Government was not responsible
for the breach Of the Agreement Of 1909.
He considered that as an Empire Parlla-
1nent was not workable an Imperial Confer
ence should be developed, meeting frequent
" and sometimes in the Dominions,
Advices from Paris state that NJ. Doumer-
que is forming % Ministry, which will be
announced after President Poincare's ap-
proval.
Berlin advices state that Lieutenant Baron
Won Forstner has been ordered to be court
lnartlalied, IN connection with the Zaberu
incident. Members of the Reichstag have
addressed seventeen huge meetings, at
which orderly protests were registered