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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20115, 30 June 1914, Page 7

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(United Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, June 2&. Twelve thousand East Enders attended a protest meeting at Victoria Park 1 against the Welsh Disestablishment I Bill. The speakers included the Duke lof Devonshire, Lord Robert Cecil, and ■ the Bishops of St. Asaph and St. Da- | vid's. They reiterated the Unionists' ' intention to" wipe the Bill from the Statute Book.

j Malatesta, a well-known Italian anar- \ chist "who is wanted in connection with ths Acona strike, escaped from Italy in peasant's disguise, and is now taking refuge in London. i Hon. Mr Simon, at Manchester, said the Government in 1915 intended to increase the tax on unearned incomes to ,165., also to impose a supertax and a i super-supertax. I The Hon. E. S. Montague, Undersecretary for India, replying to a deputation /promised to support an export allowance on British-Irish tobacco to enable it to compete with the foreigngrown article, which is not hampered by Excise restrictions. 1 The steamer Gothland has been refloated. j PEKING.. June 28. j The Pekiang and Sikiang districts ar© flooded, and' hundreds of villages have been devastated, owing to breaks in the river banks. Thousands are homer i e33< ROME, June 28. ; 1 Parliament was obstructed by the drug assafoetida being poured from the Socialist benches. j PARIS, June 9:<----j The inquiry into the subsidences show, ed that some contractors use soft rubble stone instead of the standard material, to strengthen sewer walls. 1 "Le Matin" states that the loan has ! been underwritten fifteenfold. j CALCUTTA, June 28. ] A great demonstration celebrated the agitator Tilak's release. People sang ' national songs and cheered Tilak's gar- ' landed portrait. j THE HAGUE, June. 28. The chief centre of the earthquake which recently occurred in Sumatra was Benkoelen. Eleven natives were killed and) many injured. All Europeans are uafe. BERLIN, June 28. Hohl's confession' shows that a considerable portion of the plans for fortifying the frontier under the fifty million scheme is already in the possession of Russia. SYDNEY, June 29. The Government has granted £1,000 towards the Olympic Games Australian representation funds. LONDON, June 28. Miss Jane Wood, musical-hall actress, I is suing Sandow for- damages for libel "I in printing a portrait advertisement illustrating Sandbw's corsets. Plaintiff gave evidence tihat she was photograph, ed with a view to publication in the newspapers as a celebrity, not ns a corsefc model. Sandow paid the photographer four guineas for a. copy. She never wore Sandow corsets.