BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 61, 13 March 1907, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PKESB ASSOCIATION.] THE ELECTRICIANS' STRIKE IN PARIS. PARIS, March 12. The French Chamber of Deputies, by 378 to 68, endorsed M. Clenienceau's intervention in the electricians' strike, ignoring M. Jaures' heated strictures. ATTEMPT ON A PREMIER'S LIFE. SOFIA, March 12. The Bulgarian Premier, while walking in the Boris Garden at Sofia with M. Genadiff, Minister for Commerce, was wounded by a revolver shot. The would-be assassin was arrested. FOODLESS TROOPS. PORT SAID, March 12. Fifteen hundred Turkish troops aboard a transport refused to undergo quarantine at Suez, alleging that they were foodless. They were allowed to proceed to Port Said. A MILLIONAIRE'S DISAPPEARANCE. NEW YORK, March 12. Mr Weyerhause, an immensely rich Lumber King, has disappeared in California. He was last seen on Friday at Santa Barbara. It is feared thathe has been kidnapped. CAPSIZE OF A BOAT. NEW YORK, March 12. A boat capsized in the Sacramento River, California, yesterday, drowning 22 Greek labourers. THE ROYAL SOCIETY. LONDON, March 12. Dr. Eliot Smith, a native of. Sydney, has been appointed to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. LONDON, March 12. Lords Rosebery and Curzon are candidates for the Chancellorship of Oxford University. A FRENCHMAN RUNS AMUCK. PARIS, March 12. A man named Jolibois, a workman at Clichy (Paris) attempted to strangle a woman. He killed a policeman and a waiter, and wounded .three other persons before he was arrested. THE BAGDAD RAILWAY. BERLIN, March 12. The German newspapers are beginning to declare that Germany has no further interest in the realisation of the Bagdad railway scheme, which has already been Gallicised. THE ELECTIONS IN SPAIN. MADRID, March 12. The Spanish Conservatives triumphed at the elections. THE WRECK OF THE BERLIN. AMSTERDAM, March 12. Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Queen Wilhelmina's husband, has declined the national testimonial which it was proposed to present to him in connection, with his action at the wreck of the Berlin." He declares that he only did his duty. THE WRECKED STEAMER DAKOTA. LONDON, March 12. The steamer Dakota, which was' wrecked at Noshima Cape, Japan, is ripped open for two-thirds of her length. The loss of the London insurance companies will amount to half a million sterling if part of the cargo is saved. A VALUABLE INVENTION. LONDON March 12. The Admiralty and its experts areconsidenng the plans of Mr Middleton, a London engineer, for large submarines capable of conveying food during war-time. AN INCIDENT RECALLED ™ a ■ PARIS > March 12. lne death is announced of M Cas-simir-Perier, ex-President of France, lhe newspapers declare that,his resignation in 1894 placated the Kaiser and saved France.