BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 176, 2 August 1910, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

. [PREiB ASSOCIATION.] A USE FOR THE WASH.

'■':' LONDON, July 31.. Mr John Brown, of Sheffield, and the, Fair,£eld ShipbuildingVJPontp,any axe^constructing a. gun and arnyour--fcesting. range at the estuary ©f the IWash. Projectiles, will be fired into i>he soft sand, and recovered at low ■tide, r A DISASTROUS COLLISION* (Received Aug. 2,9.45 a.m.) . ALGIERS, Aug. 1., By. a. railway, collision at Oran 24 persons were killed and 40 injured. KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION. ; ■■-,■■: . =■ VIENNA, Aug. 1. • An explosion in a cement factory at Beocin, in Hungary, killed four ■workmen and injured many others. THE GRAND TRUNK STRIKE, OTTAWA, Aug. 1. The Grand Truiik'Railway Company is prepared to raise wages 15 per 'ceaat. A settlement is probable, A BATTLESHIP FOR TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 1 % The Porte has ordered a battleship from the Anns^trong-Whitworth IDoy., Tickers, Son and Maxim, and Brown* BEATEN BY THE mANNEIr. LONDON, Aug. 1. T^offe swam 12 miles; aofoss the Channel, when wind and a heavy «well conTpeTled him to abandon "the attempt. '■ ':;■ . ';'• ■~"■." ' ." GOO^ WORK RECp^NTSED., ,' .v.v •., 'LONDON .Aug. 1. The Times commends the work of iih» British Trade 'eonnriissioners and -commercial correspondents. An allowance of 3210-000, it claims, is very; insignificant for such a vital object. AN INDIAN MEMORIAL. CALCUTTA, Aug. ,1/ Attleeting at LaTioro agreed to fmild' a Medical 'College, etilauge the -existing Irospitals, and form a Cen--trail Medical Institution in King "EH-, ward's ittfemory. The sum of £'40,000 ~m*a coHe^bed on the spot. ;■ -I^StGN::dF, THE TIMES* ['.^, ■'■'•■ s ■'».■ wCv ; yiug.,'i^,;:,: ■"•>' Tji& r for;;Jbhe 'Stuttgart. «eatji; m}sxls v fßeicbJstagj ; v^Kich h0 luiii&fio; returned; a /Nri^nalliilteral^ t&sdlfififa, in: the Tei/urn of a Socialist! liy a^. .pnpreceHented: majority. : This is t^,j^ve^n;th successive Socialist; vic4 -tory^ip:"by-elections, ■■....,-.:.1--. ■'-■ ■■■■; ':,■::>;.-u ■• ■H-'v.-;:!.:--pBiTUAinr.' ■■ '■■■■v; ■■■■- ■■' ■'•'.•;.': -['v >'-■'"' LONDON^ -Augrl^:;;.. The1, 'death':ls-!/:,iEi^o'un'c^^F.--lioaja-3ecie4,' fourth Barori (William l^ar- - bus >*Dei Xa Poer Hor^ley Beresford),; Tnaster 'pi the Thariet Harriers, a -paofc'^tyiiich dates '.pack.''to. 1760. -He -•was "B&iz&s. with &, paralytic Stroke At Alesa-nafa races, and died in hospital. . /His sige/.'wa's.;4s.: - .^.^..•.•.■■i'^;.' ■ :"■ ; . l; : ;^pE TURKISH LOAN. Aug. T, j , The, Turkish Parliament voted 322,----''©OOiOOOs.for road repairs. The Goy- I '«mmenin,'have now accepted a 'French 'iendfer.ii.ifor practically the whole '«tf required, rejecting an British tender, as *fcney -aesii^ to facilitate the Paris loam. • .-■•■•■ •. '■■•'■■.' •

BEAL AMAZONS.

KOME Aug. 1 Excavations of relics of the Iron Age in the, 3elmon£e, neaar Anoona/ "have revealea two rich tomlis <T female waxriors under war chariots. This discorery is Relieved i» afford Mstoric proof of fhe atftual ,*xistenee of Amazona.