CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 281, 1 June 1907, Page 4

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

, i (BY MBOTBJO TKLBOBAPH—COPTWOHI J [PER PREUS ASSOCIATION.] •■ TWO AERONAUTS MISSING. London, May 31. ; A war balloon, containing Lieutenants Caulfield and Leak, of the Royal Engineers, both skilled aeronauts, ' ascended at Aldershot on Tuesday < and was missing until Thursday when ; the balloon was picked up empty by ; a fishing smack near Exmouth. ; PROPERTY'S ENEMIES. | President Roosevelt, speaking at Indianopolis, said property was in less , jeopardy from Socialists or Anar- j chists than from predatory men of i wealth. Government did not intend : to refruin from asserting the nations j right to control businesses and use '• wealth, especially in corporate form, j Government must exercise over the railways a power analagous to that exercised over national banks. It must prevent over-capitalisation or undue inflation of securities, and every honestly managed railway will gain under this policy. Government propose in no sense to be punitive or vindictive, and the State was powerful enough to cope legislatively with powerful corporations engaged in in-ter-State commerce. DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. Paris, May 31. The French Chamber has .anotoned the marriages of brother-in-law and sister-in-law.