BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 276, 20 November 1908, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

! -» — [ PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BERLIN'S UNEMPLOYED. (Received Nov. 20, 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Nov. 19. The official census shows that there : are 41,468 unemployed in Greater Ber- ! lin. THE JAPANESE FLEET. TOKIO, Nov. 19. ' Tlie Mikado, at Kobe, reviewed 110 Japanese warships, exclusive of submarines. THE EDUCATION COMPROMISE. LONDON, Nov. 19. Lobby rumors indicate that the prospects of the Education Bill compromise are less favourable. , UNBROTHERLY COMRADES. LONDON, Nov. 19. Messrs H. M. Hyndman and A. V. Grayson have refused to appear on tbe same platform with Mr Keir Rardie. A RUSSIAN SCAPEGRACE. :, ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 19. The Grand Duke Cyril has been reinstated to his Army rank, and appointed aide-de-camp to the Tsar. FLAGRANT IMMORALITY. LONDON, Nov. 19. The Bishop of Bath, under the Clergy Discipline Act, is taking proceedings against Pigott, of the "Abode of Love" at Brixton, for immorality. TELEorRAM LETTERS. PARIS, Nov. 19. France has adopted a telegram letter, enabling the sender to telegraph at night-time at the rate of ten words for a penny, for delivery as a letter in the morning. , LORD FAIRFAX OF CAMERON. LONDON, Nov. 19. The Committee on Privileges in the House of Lords decided that Albert Kirby Fairfax, late of Virginia, had proved his title as Lord Fairfax of Cameron,' irf the peerage of Scotland. " AN ETON MEMORIAL. LONDON, Nov. 19. King Edward and Queen Alexandra opened the hall and library erected at Eton as a memorial to Old Etonians killed in the South African War. King Edward exhorted the boys to maintain the traditions which had made Eton renowned in history, .THE CABLE. CONTROVERSY. ;■■/■■• ■• "LONDON, Nov. 19. Sir John Wolfe-Barry, in.reply to Mr Henniker-Heaton,' states that Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who was chairman of the inter-departmental committee which reported adversely to penny-a-word cablegrams, was not connected with any cable company until 1905. "STANDARD OIL." NEW YORK, Nov. 19. Mr John D. Rockefeller, in the course of an action in the Missouri Courts with the object of dissolving the Standard Oil Trust, testified that he owned a quarter of a million trust stock, and derived an income of three r millions sterling therefrom. He denied coercing other companies" to sell their stock. . ...... IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE. LONDON, Nov. 19. A warm welcome is being prepared for the Colonial delegates to the Imperial Press Conference, which opefls on the 7th June next, and will ex-, tend over three weeks. The members will be enabled to inspect some great naval base, visit industrial, shipbuilding and University, centres, and exchange views with leading statesmen and professional men, besides . seeing something of English country life under distinguished auspices.