GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 885, 3 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

B? Telejjrapii—Prewi Association—Copyrient, . -< THE REGENCY .BILL. (Rec. August 2, 11.40 p.m.) London, August 2. The Regency Bill, appointing Queen Mary Regent in tho event of the Prince of Wales succeeding to the Throno before he is eighteen years of age, has been read a third time in the House of Lords. A FATAL EXPLOSION. London, August 2. An explosion in a cement factory at Beocin, Hungary, killed four persons, besides injuring many others. AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY. London, August 2. There was brilliant weather for. the Bank Holiday. A quarter of a million persons visited the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition. FATAL RAILWAY DISASTER, London, August 1. Twenty persons were killed and forty injured in a railway collision at Oran. a gunner's REVENGE. ■ : " St. John's, August 1. A gunner shot dead an officer named Ellison, an artillery captain, during a parade at Victoria, British Columbia. He complained that Ellison had unjustly punished him. STATUE TO GENERAL LEE. Now York, August 2. Despite the opposition of Congress the United States Attorney-General (Mr. C. W. Wickersham) has decided that a statue to General Robert Lee, of the Confederates in tho Civil War, was en-' titled to a place iu the Statuary Hall at ! the Capitol. The President (Mr, W. H. Taft) approves of the decision. FRANCE AND LIBERIA, ' Paris, August 2. • Tho American proposals for tho raising of a loan to straighten the finances of tho West African negro Republic of Liberia are resented in Franco. Tho French Government is urged to assort its rights under the treat)' of 1907. EIGHTEEN CHILDREN DROWNED. Vienna, August 2. Eighteen boys and girls returning from a peasant dance' wero drowned by a sudden thnnderstorin swamping a ferry boat at Salzburg.