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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14523, 27 November 1912, Page 11

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Uoit-i Fre.is Association—By El-etrit Telesraph—Copyright. H.M.S. TORCH. LONDON, November 25. Mr Winston Churchill, replying to Lord Charles Uercsford, said that ho hoped to receive a report of H.M.S. Torch, which is said to havo sailed from Sydney in an unseaworthy condition, " by tho end of tho month. * THE MARCONI ENQUIRY. I LONDON, November 25. i Before tho Marconi Committee, j Mr Mande, an Admiralty wireless expert, re-affirmed his evidence given bo- • fore tho Imperial Wireless Committee a i voir ago. The Marconi system was tho most reliable for long-distance service, and tho Marconi stations could be converted into Poulsen's cheaply at any time. . A TIMELY ESCAPE. LONDON, November 25. A largo drapery establishment at Clonmel was destroyed by fire. There trero exciting scenes, tho proprietor, his family, and twenty assistants being imprisoned, but thoy were rescued just ■ before tho roof collapsed. FATAL EXPLOSION. WASHINGTON. November 25. .' At Wnukegan, Illinois, twenty persons ' wero killed by an explosion of a . dry starch plant in tho Corn Products' Refining Company's premises, and . twenty-five were seriously injured. The v canso of tho explosion is unknown. . (Received November 26th, 9.55 p.m.) Tho fire is still burning, and it is im- , possible to recover the dead. Probably . fourteen perished. Many leaped from . windows, and wero crushed to death. £ MR CARNEGIE SPEAKS. I,' NEW YORK, November 26. Mr Carnegie, in a birthday message, - is a mistake to think that .;, the. United' States is going to the 'bow- |> wob.-.' - Ihave ahighur opinion of tho' ■'' human rnce now than I ovor had before. Women have obtained to almost angelic hoights."' EXPLOSION AND FIRE. , NEW YORK, November 25. , . An explosion in tho Chemical Union Sulphur Company's premises at Brook- ' Ivn hurled seventy employees in all aiie-tion_. Eighteen were taken to tho hospital. It is feared that many mo fatally injnred. ~ A fire followed*, and destroyed the plant. Tho damage amounts to one million dollars.