GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
■ The American Ambassador ha* ordered 70? troops to China from Manila. The 'British Concession at Tientsin is under _ martial l*wr jta.li.an dirigibles, dropping bombs, „ drove the Turks from their trendies at Zarizan. The Constantinople newspaper Tanin" states that negotiations have been opened by Turkey with Britain with regard to the' next section of the Baghdad 'railway. . The negotiations specially concern the Persian Gulf. King O'MaJley (Federal Secretary for Home Affairs) informed a deputation -taat the Government would employ men la. connection with the transcontinental . raahva-yinMay. The . Agents-General hare decided to urge Mr- Lewis Harcourt (Secretary of , State for the Colonies) to inquire into alleged sales 6f colonial produce as British. Britsfc imports increased by £3,648,463, exports by £1.637.209. and re-exports br £73n.4flS last month. The Australian artists. A. E. Streeton, Coo. W. Lambert, H. Leist, and \K*. Long-sr.-ifT. have been elected to Mr. Bertram M.acKcnnall's committee to advise on the decoration of the Commonwealth offices in London.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 59, 8 March 1912, Page 2
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