BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 169, 18 July 1908, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LEMOINE'S TROUBLES (Received July 18, 8.50 a.m.) PARIS, July 17. Madame Lemoine has been granted a divorce. . * WELLINGTON DEBENTURES. * LONDON, July 17. The City; of Wellington is inviting tenders for a hundred thousand 4 per cent, debentures at par. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. \ PARIS,, July 17. Lightning killed thirteen persons out of fourteen on a farm at St. Christopher, France. ' ■ , THE WAR IN KOREA, i SEOUL, July 17. Between June 26 and July 13 the Japanese, in a hundred encounters, killed Korean insurgents, and captured 228. "EPOCH-MAKING INVENTION." BERLIN, July 17. , ! Krupp's have acquired the patent rights over Colonel Urge's new Swedish air-torpedo,, which experts declare to be an epoch-making invention. A LAUNCH FOUNDERS. MANILA, July 17. i A pleasure-launch journeying from Manila to Corregidor■ foundered in a i typhoon- Twenty-five out of the j seventy-five occupants were drowned. , A. SPY'S REWARD. ' CONSTANTINOPLE, July 17. A Turkish officer atfSalonika killed 4 Turlush regiment chaplain, who was acting as a spy for the Yildiz Kiosk in connection with the Monastir troubles. | THE WHISKY COMMISSION. LONDON, July 1?. An interim report of the Royal Commission on Whisky advises no restrictions on processes or apparatus used in the distillation of probable spirit manufactured, from malt or} malted and unmalted barley pr other1 cereals* , ' ,