British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11743, 20 September 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 18. Isniay denies the sale of the White Star Hue to the Shipping Trust, William Allan, member of the House of Commons for Gateshead, made a vigorous attack on the Admiralty. He referred to our "phantom fleet of skeleton crews/ and declared that the navy was short of JL4,000 firemen. 2000 engine-room artificers, and 900 engineers. The dockyards he described as "congested with crippled cruisers." There are prospects that the miners' strike in Waltes was caused by a Danish railway order of 60,000 tons of coal being transferred to Germany. BERLIN, September 18. The Kaiser commanded an attacking squadron in the naval manoeuvres, and broke through the torpedo boats and captured the entrance.to the Elbe. MADRID, September 18. The Spanish Ministerial party deny the idea of an entente cordiale with France. Russian Radical newspapers are sympathetic wifcn the scheme. Independent organs warn Spain of her vulnerability in the event of Britain becoming her enemy, and recommend an alliance with Britain. PARIS', September 18. The Shah and suite spent £200,000 during iheir visit to Paris. OTTAWA, September 18. A man armed with a revolver and a bomb entered the Canadian Bank of Commerce Skagway, and demanded 20,000 dollars. The clerks fled, and the bomb accidentally fell, wrecking the bank and killing the robber.