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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Canadas mauifioent parliament building, which cost more th;:ii .000.010. lay in ruins yesterday, ■wept by a tire attributed by some to a l omb or Infernal machine. At least six lives were lost and many persons were injured. The lire »a- under control at 3 a. m. Friday after raging furiously l- i six boar*. The known dead are: Mnie. Bray. wife of H. A. Bray of Quebec and daughter of i the late -George Tanguay of the legislative council: Mine. Mei in. wife of Louis Morin of St. Joseph do Beance, Quebec; Robert Fanning. B waiter em ployed n the building: Alph des Jardine, a dominion policeman; A. des .lanlins. a plumber. Another noiiiiu-tan policeman b believed to have bean killed with Des Jardlaa when the roof fell upon them while thej were rorklag with others in the chamber below the tpea era quarters. William s. Loajrie, member of par anient lor Northumberland. N. B.. is reported missing, it araa atated last night that Frederick 1. Pardee, the chief lil eral whip in the house of commons, also was missing, but it was subsequently learned that he went to Saruia. Oat., Thnraday morning and that he could not have returned before the fire. The financial loss is difficult to estimate, but the contents of the building were of great value. It is believed that the parlia-men.arv library, in a rear wing, was saved. While llie tire was burning soldiers carried out many of iis 200,000 volumes. The parliament building was rat - 1 as one of the finest Gothic structures on this continent. It covered four acres on Parliament Hill. 1 roni Berlin yesterday a dispatch said: Information reaehing the Aaaociated Press today in-dlcatea that under no circumstance* will Geraaany admit that the sinking of the Lusitania was an illegal act. The new instructions tor warded to Ambaaador Yon Bernstorff. according to this information, contain* simply one phrase of the new formulation of the proposed note of regret for the sinking of the Lusitania. The suggested sentence is short, consisting of only eight weirds, ami does mi contain the word "illegal." It represents the exterme limit of Germanys concessions in the Lusi tauia ease.
