BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 58, 4 March 1909, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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VIENNA, March 3

All the soldiers who were overwhelmed at Brenner have been v-es- I cued., BURNED TO DEATH. 1 NEW YORK, March 3. A high tenement building in New York was burned last night. Ten of the inmates perished. SPERRY'S SUCCESSOR. NEW YORK, March 3. Admiral Sperry ha 3 resig««i the Atlantic command. Admiral Schroeder will succeed him. A HEAVY ITEM. LONDON, -March 3. The year's cost of maintaining British troops in South Afrioa was £2,273,000. UPHEAVAL IN PALESTINE. LONDON, March 3. Advices from Smyrna state that an earthquake destroyed the town of Masran, near Jerusalem, burying 150 people. FORTUNE FOR A FILM. NEW YORK, March 3. Klaw and Erlanger offered Mr McIntosh, the promoter of the BurnsJohnson fight, £50,000 for all his American cinematograph rights. FRANCE AND THE CHURCH. PARIS, March 3. The Roman (Jatholic world is perturbed at the French Government's appointment of the Abbe Loisy to the Chair of History of Religion in a college in France. THE BRITISH PATENT ACT. BERLIN, March 3. German manufacturers, especially chemists, are troubled at the rigorous enforcement of the English PatentAct. The newspapers urge the conclusion of a reciprocity patent treaty similar to that in force between Germany and America.