London, Nov. 10. ihe fourth of the seven sections of the Singapore floating dock has been Jajinched at Wallsend.
ited that the remaining three Ynunched this year—Reuter "we merely confirmed whut he Reuter.
London, Nov. 8.
Questioned in the House of Commons to-day in regard to the reports concerning concession to an} American corporation for the damming of the Blue Nile, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs,' Sir Austen, Chamberlain, said that H the Abyssinian Government contemplated; luting such a concession without! consulting the British Government, that would constitute a violation the Treaty of 1902 between Great Britain and Abyssinia, but confident that the Abyssinian Government was not unmindful of this obligation: this had been confirmed by Dr. Blaitin, the Envoy Extraordinary for Abyssinia, Sir Austen added that no ques-the United States ant "British Governments concerning the concession and. he anticipated no difficulties between them—Reuter,
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