BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
(United Press Association Copyrights LONDON, August 31. The explosion of a- blast furnace at East Ardsley, Yorkshire, killed 5 and injured 7.
Japan's retrenchments are widely approved. They include the defrayal of all outlay from ordinary revenue, and tho spreading of armaments and public works over 11 instead of six years. Sixty merchants are leaving* Warsaw for London to establish intercourse with English manufacturers, in consequence of the Polish boycott of German goods. NEW YORK, August 31. The Futurity Stakes was run at Sheep's Head Bay without a single book being mado upon the course. Only a few hundred spectators were present, compared with 40,000 last year. Governor Fort's threat to send the militia to stop Sunday trading has caused the- liquor sellers of Atlantic City to comply with the liquor laws.
TEHERAN, August 31. The revolutionaries at Tabriz have issued an ultimatum to the Shah, demanding the selection of a Ministry from the revolutionaries, the expulsion of all reactionaries from Teheran, and the granting of a full amnesty.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 2 September 1908, Page 7
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