BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

West Coast Times, 12 April 1912, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

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WIRELESS AND AEROPLANES.

LONDON, April 11.—Captain Daws, of Adlershot, wirelessed several miles from an aeroplane. Marconi is introducing a new apparatus enabling aviators to send and receive messages to a radius of one hundred miles.

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. NEW YORK, April 9.—Mr. Roosevelt is fighting hard to secure the nomination of the Illinois primaries. He declares that if he is defeated on this occasion he will again contest the Presidency. Roosevelt further declared that Canadian reciprocity would not he the issue ever again, if he wins. STEAMER ON FIRE. NEW YORK, April 9.—The steamer Ontario,, belonging to the Merchants Transportation Company, is in flames, off New York Harbour. The passengers were rescued. The steamer’s crew arc fighting the flame;, hut with little success. The cargo of cotton has been jettisoned. The captain ran the vessel ashore when the fire started. THE AMERICAN FLOOD. NEW YORK, April 9.—Reports from Memphis, Mississippi, state that the flood danger is passing, and the river is falling. fteameiTon fire. NEW YORK, April 11.—The crow of the steamer Ontario (which caught fire in New York harbour) escaped to the shore leaving the vessel in flames. She lies on the rocks, with the flames pouring from all sides. A heavy sea is battering her to pieces. All her cargo has been lost.