BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 233, 1 October 1912, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] GALE'S COMET. (Received Oct. 1, 11 a.m.) LONDON,.Sept. 30. Gale's comet is now visible. / THE BLACK DEATH. LONDON, Sept. 30. A sailor on a Hamburg steamer was fatally attacked by plague at Tyne. ADDITIONAL DEATH DUTIES. LONDON, $ept. 30. Additional £017,000 of death duties have-been secured, by the reswearing of' three large estates, including that of the late H. O. Wills, AZEFF, THE SPY. PARIS r .Sept.-30..; Aaeff. the notorious Russian .police spy and revolutionary, declares that ho is willing to be tried by a jury •composed of his former comrades. In the event of a death sentence being pronounced he promises to execute it within 24 Jaours. . , LONDON MURDER SENSATION. ' LONDON, Sejpt.-30: Florence Dudley, a music hall performer, was shot thrice and killed in a taxi-cab in Fenichurch Street. Her (Companion, Edward Hopgood, believed to be a professional man, was arrested while attempting to commit suicad© Flo. Dudley was a well--1 known principal boy in pantomimes. Hopgood was director of ;a city company and a married man. By his will he bequeathed £2060 to the dead womaat's dhfld. . MOTOR-CAR CHASE. /--... PARIS, Sept. •30. '' A powerful motor-car, which was stolen in Belgium, entered vParis. A dramatic police chase ensued." Four of -the a 'occupants of the car :are believed to he connected with a plot to rob a.batik on -settling day. 'The thieves abandoned the car and escaped., ■■ .. . ': ,'. -.: '■ ..: SIR tJ. REID AS EDITOR. LONDON, Sept. 30. In consequence of Sir 'George Reid's ■efforts to' secure correctness of the items in English schoolbooks relating j to Australia.' the Cambridge Univer- I sWr Press will submit to Sir George Reid the proofs: of the geograpny to be published shortly, and'also that of a series of geographical readers. TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS. •'■■/ LONDON, Sept, 30. r The Medical Association states that the Sickness Insurance Committee has ■'•■' drafted a? scheme effectively to deal with tuberculosis. It provides for the placing of each -district under a tuberculosis "officer, to .act in corijunc- - ■' tion -with''the patients 7 doctors, but the former will determine the method '' 'jof treatment. ■ v NEW LIFE-SAVING BEGULA- ■ ' ' '- ■'■•■■ TIONS.. . LONDON, Sept: 30. * The Shipowners' . Parliamentary - -Committee' passed \a resolution . severely criticising the Board of Trade on the" new life-saving regulations, which subordinate the shipowners • s-esponsfbiHty in regard to design, and equipment of vessels to departmental responsibility, thus gravely imperil- " ling the safety of life. A HEAyT STORM. V PARIS. Sept. 30. A heavy storm is raging on the r\<joast, particularly at St. Azaire, where" tihe quay and shipbuilding docks Tvere ravaged. The stocks on which. ••■■■ the battleship France was being built -were partially destroyed.^ A number r of wrecks are reported. OLD POWDER. PARIS, Sept. 30. "The" r Federation •. workmen at_ the ' -Government powder works have issued , a memorial asserting- *hat there is still " 800,000 kilogrammes :\ of old powder, and protesting against the possible- adoption of mtro-elyoerine, which" has a most deteriorating effect r- oil guns. ■ MATTER OF ETIQUETTE. , BERLIN, Sept, 30. •PirinoiT George of Bavaria is selling Ha •palace at Munich, because his wife, the Arch-Duchess Isabella Marie of ■ Austria, left shortly after; their, marriage*'in February on account _ of prefedence', being given to ; Bavarian ."' ''/'■'" '" .■"■ . :■■„.(: '"■■'.■/ :.' civilisation not wanted. .;'.,.' -new. York! scot: so. rProfessor ~ Steffasson, who discovered '■the. white Eskimos, .is urging: the rCanadian '•Government to prevent *- civilisation reaching the; Eskimos. He - asks for the prohibition of missionr :-■ arrles and traders, otherwise he is eonv yinced that the"Eskimos will become • extinct: ■ ■. '' ■