BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12658, 21 November 1905, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association.—Copyright. Received November 20, 8.36 a.m. "BERLIN, November 19. Mademoiselle Zanaiada Shnoljaninoff, a beautiful -and talented Russian, moving in the 'best circles of St. Petersburg and Berlin, Jias been sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment at Leipzic for selling documents of a foreign Government. The elite of Berlin were called as witnesses. OHRISTIANIA, November 19. The Storthing unanimously voted for Prince Charles of Denmark in the election of a King of Norway. NEW YORK, November 19. Stephen Salisbury, of Worcester, Massachusetts, who died without an heir, bequeathed hris entire fortune of four millions sterling to education and charities. BERLIN, November 19. Tho German torpedoer S 126 collided with tho cruiser Undine in the Bay of Kiel. Her'boiler exploded and she sank. The collision occurred during a tactical night attack against the Undine, which was liglrtless. Thirty-three of the crew are missing. iLONDON, November 19. Milb.urn's Australian line of steamers will load at Hull, probably commencing in January. A fire occurred in' a model lodginghouse at Glasg6>V, by' which thirty inmates were suffocated or burned to death. -■ BERLIN, -November 19. The Hamburg-wAmerican Line and a leading Hamlbury -coinbine are engaged in a fierce struggle with the North German Lloyds and the Bremen Lines. Botih sides are forming new-lines, while the Hamburg combine is floating a syndicate of shipping companies, offering free transfer of vessels for the purpose of fighting its competitors. Received November 20, 9.7 a.m. PARIS, November 19. • General Brugere, vice-president of the Superior Council War, has been placed under arrest sfor a fortnight for communicating to .newspapers the particulars of a private interview with M. 'Etienne, the Minister for War, who smoothed the qi*arrel between General Brugere and General Percin arising out of tdie Delation scandal. Brugere admits the justice of the sentence.