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Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 265, 14 May 1907, Page 4

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN. ♦ [BT BLBCTBIC TBLBGBAPH— COPTBIOHT.] [PBB PBBBB ASSOCIATION.] ARMY STORES. London, May 13. The Times mentions in connection with the purchase of stores for the Australian squadron that the list of those purchased locally iB revised from time to time as new trades develop in Australia. RAILWAY MEN'S DEMAND. One hundred and fifty thousand railway men in Hyde and 1,000 in Glasgow, Leeds, Derby, Manchester, Swinton, Wales, and other centres supported the Amalgamated Society s demands that the companies should recognise the Union officials in negotiations with the men. j ENTENTE CORDIALE. Two hundred French commeroers and agriculturists were feter at London and Windsor. THE REBELLION IN MOROCCO. London, May 12. Renter states that the rebels have invited Muley Hafid to proclaim himself Sultan in the south, and meanwhile have forced him to release prisoners. Europeans expelled from Marrakesh have been escorted to Soffi. JAPAN AND GERMANY. Berlin, May 12. In connection with Japan's treaties for maintenance of the statu quo in the Orient, the fact that Japan tacitly ignores Germany on the ground that Germany is merely a lessee or tenant in Kiaochu is causing bitterness in Berlin. London, May 12. The Times Tokio correspondent says the Franco-Japanese treaty is joyfully welcomed in Japan. EGYPT'S POPULATION. Cairo, May 12. Egypt's population, exclusive of nomad Bedouins, is 11,306,459. an increase of a million and a half since 1897. A HEAT WAVE. London, May 12. . The temperature is 79 degress in the shade in London, 82 in Paris, and 68 in Germany.