British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 March 1914, Page 3

British and Foreign.

I ELECTRIC TF,r,KGItAPII, COPYRIGHT.] [PEIt I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, L 0.20 a.m.) PO.I SOX () I" S Ff M ES. St. Petersburg, March 29. Four hundred workmen were overcome by fumes in a tobacco factory. Eighteen were taken to the hospital. It is rumoured that strikers introduced chemical fumes to prevent strike breakers working. RUSSIAN AIR ELEET. The new military aerial programme provides for - 0 >26 aeroplanes of the usual type, aud ten air dreadnoughts--all to be completed by the autumn. A SHOWER AND A STAMPEDE. Tokio, March 29. During the launching of the battleship Puso, the crowd stampeded owing to a shower of rain. Several were trampled to death and thirty injured. BRAZILIAN LOAN. # Rio Janiero, March 29. A group of French banks are advancing Brazil l.i million sterling immediately towards the loan of twenty millions. ' :.iu ."ived This Day, 9 a.m.) j .■( "MPLICATIONS. 1 Washington, March 29. Senator Reed complicated the Panama question by the introduction of a bill providing for the repeal of the toils, and atso allowing foreign vessels to enter the American coastwise shipping trade. Senator Reed declared his intention to break the existing monopoly in coastwise shipping. Senator Lewis introduced a bill giving the President authority to suspend canal traffic whenever it was consistent with the United Slates interests. A TORNADO. Now York, March 29. A tornado swept over the villages in the lice country, lolling* several people and levelling numbers of houses. The tornado struck Frederick village, TTemolishing the majority of the. houses. Se\eral families arc missing.