BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 62, 14 March 1911, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[p&ESS ASSQCIATIONJ SACRILEGE. LONDON, March 12. At th© Staffordshire Assizes a workman named Marlow was sentenced .to three years' penal servitude ior sacrilege in a Ilom'an Catholic church. ■ A' CENTENARY. PARIS, March 13. The newspapers will commemorate Leverriexs's centenary. ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. LONDON, Mar^h ,13. England defeated Wales at Association football Jby three goals to mil. A NEW,GUN. ' ' ■ ■■'■ LONDON, March 13. It is reported that the Admiralty is experimenting with a fifteen inch, gun. : ; THE CENSUS. CALCUTTA, March 13. : The provisional census returns show the population of Calcutta to be 1,216^14.; and -Rangoon, :289>432/ SEDITIbtJS MEETINGS. CALCUTTA,, March 13. It is understood that the Government extends the Seditious Meetings Act from the «nd of .March. TENNIS. PARIS, .March 13. Wilding and Ritchie had a walkover in the fur.il rounds of the open doubles at the Riviera championship. H- and R- Kloinscbroth were scratched. SMALLPOX AND MEASLES. LONDON, .March 13. A fresh outbreak of measles has1 occurred at Dartmouth College. There are now 35 cases reported, .25 of them new. Of 8 smallpox.deaths" in London <ms was s&ccinated in infancy, five w.er© unvaGcinatad, and, in two cases iihere was ;no evidence of vaccination. . v THE BAGDAD RAILWAY. CONSTANTINOPLE, .March A3. Rifaat Pasha, Minister for Foreign Affairs, is advancing certain proposals to Great Britain regarding tho! Gulf and the prolongation of the Bagdad railway .southwards. Influential Young Turk circles antici-, pate' that' failing the settlement of the Koeit question to Turkey's satis-; faction, the terminus will be Basrah, or some place on the Gulf whidh is' regarded as Tmiash. - ~