BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 133, 8 June 1906, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PaESS ASSOCIATION.] MASSACRE OF A GARRISON. (Received June 8, 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, June 7. Renter's Cairo correspondent reports that natives at Salodi, 200 miles South of El Abeid, massacred the Soudanese Garrison, numbering forty. A punitive expedition has left El Abeid. BRITAIN AND SERVIA. . LONDON June 7. The Daily, Mail states that Britain has received-a guarantee that the Servian regicides will.not be'reappointed. It is expected that Britain will now resume diplomatic relation's with Servia. NAVAL DEFENCE. LONDON, June 7. The Morning Post advises, the Imperial Government to encourage the Commonwealth to adopt Commander CresswelPs naval defence proposals. A CHURCH DISPUTE. LONDON, June 7. The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Scottish Churches dispute awarded the training colleges at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen to the United Free Church. innocent" negroes lynched. LONDON, June 6. Referring to the Springfield incident, cabled on April 16, the Grand Jury report that.the three negroes were innocent. The sheriff and police are blamed. ; . . [A mob at Springfield, Missouri, en-, tcred the gaol, secured two negroes, charged with attacking a white, girl, and hanged them on the statute of the Goddess of Liberty, in the public square. They afterwards burnt the bodies in the presence qf^3oQo, pep,pT,e.". The negroes1 protested their innocence. A third negro, charged with murder, was also lynched.]