BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 9 March 1906, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press association.] THE FRENCH NAVY. (Received March 9, 8 a.m.) ; PARIS, March 8. In the French Chamber, M. Thompson, Minister for Marine, stated that, the Government proposed to build six battleships of eighteen thousand tons each, a speed of eighteen knots—not turbines —with quicker firers and heavier broadsides than those of the British vessels. \ HELD FOR RANSOM. : NEW YORK, March 7. I The son of John Bozuffi, an Italian j banker of New York, has been kidnapped. Four thousand pounds sterline is demanded as ransom. j & Later. Bozuffi's on escaped and returned home. OUTRAGE BY UNIONISTS. NEW YORK, March 7. Owing to the employment of nonunionists, the foundry of Ravitch; Brothers, New York, was partly destroyed by dynamite. THE BURNS MANUSCRIPTS. LONDON, March 7. The Burns manuscripts which Mr Pierpont Morgan purchased were not Lord Rosebery's. BRITAIN'S TRADE. LONDON, March 8. The imports into the United Kingdom for February show an increase of £4,684,000, and exports of £3,512,000 as compared with those of the previous February. THE GERMAN NAVY. BERLIN, March 8. The Budget Committee of the Reichstag agreed to vote ten million marks as a first instalment to torpedo divisions and submarines. . REDUCTION IN SALARIES.,, NEW YORK, March S. The House of Represntatives in Committee at Washington inserted in the Appropriation Bill a clause reducing the salary of every Government clerk over sixty-five to £200. TARIFF LEGISLATION DELAYED. OTTAWA, March 8. Canadian tariff legislation is delay T ed owing to the illness of the Hon. W. S. Fielding,, Minister for Finance. ILLICIT LIQUOR DEALING. LONDON, March 8. Benoit, a Frenchman, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment at the Old Bailey for forging spirit and liquor trade-marks and faking- bottles at London for sale in Honand. hORSE SHOW. ; LONDON, March 8. The Anglo-American horse show-will be held in London in May, 1907.