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BRITISH FOREIGN.

Five persons were killed and seven others injured by an explosion in a blast furnace at East Ardsley, Yorkshire.

Warsaw merchants are proceeding to London with the object of opening up trade relations with English manufacturers, owing to the boycott of German goods.

Serious mutinous outbreaks have occurred among Chinese soldiers in the southern province of Kwang-tung, several officers being murdered and a town pillaged.

A report from Morocco states that in a fight with Shragna tribesmen, Muli Hofed’s principal supporter was defeated.

A hay cart on the wrong side of the road at Amanweiler, Lorraine, forced the German Crown Prince’s motor-car against a light railway track, and the car caught the rails and overturned. Soldiers and railway men drew the Prince and Princess clear of the car, both being uninjured.

Harry Benson, otherwise Bebro, financial agent, and George Petty, bond broker, were remanded at Westminster Police Court on a charge of conspiracy to defraud, in connection with the International Securities Corporation and Feltham’s Bank, whereof they were until lately directors. Both concerns are now in liquidation. The prosecution alleges that 18,000 poor people were defrauded by the Securities Corporation and 500 by the bank.

The “ Daily News,” referring to the Sydney and Melbourne welcomes to the American fleet, reminds Australians that Japan is the ally of Britain apd the Commonwealth for years to come. The paper justifies the withdrawal of British battleships from the Pacific, remarking that concentration is the first rule of naval strategy, and that a scattered fleet is of little use. Australia’s safety, the “ Daily Chronicle ” points out, is secured by Britain’s fleet," which, so long as it commands the sea, will continue to secure peace to all outlying portions of the Empire, .. ;

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Waipukurau Press, Issue 303, 3 September 1908, Page 5

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289

BRITISH FOREIGN. Waipukurau Press, Issue 303, 3 September 1908, Page 5

BRITISH FOREIGN. Waipukurau Press, Issue 303, 3 September 1908, Page 5

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