HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12968, 22 November 1907, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. KING ALFONSO AT CAMBRIDGE. LONDON, November 20. A dozen undergraduates 'Togged the King of Spain by pelting him with lumps of sugar on tho 11th, when ho was visiting Cambridge. On© was fined. FINANCIAL CRISIiS IN CHILI. Renter's Santiago correspondent reports ft serious financial situation in Chili, owing to the unprecedented fall in the rote of exchange. On© bank has suspended payments, and three others have transferred their business to the Bank of Chili. INDIAN RAILWAY STRIKE. CALCUTTA, November 20. The Europcon and native employees on th© East Indian Railway have struck. Th© disorganisation extends from Allahabad to Calcutta, and GOOO passengers are strahded at Asansol. Tho strikers threaten violence. THE lENA DISASTER. (Received November 21.st, i 0.20 p.m.) PARIS, November 21. Tho Minister of Marine has relinquished tho idea of repairing the battleship lena, which ~wes badly damaged by an explosion while in dock in Toulon. [Tho lena wr.s a ronipar.it.velv new battleship and cost over £1,000,000. Ill© explosion which, wrecked her and caused great loss of life, was attributed to spontaneous combustion in smokeless powder.] THE CONGO FINANCES. BRUSSELS, November 21. The Colonial Bill, as amended by tho Belgian Parliamentary Commission, it. a remarkable triumph for th© advocates of Parliamentary control of the Congo finances.