LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 71, 13 March 1914, Page 6

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

CURING STAMMERERS. PARIS, March 11. Before the Academic do France Professor Dassenvaal described M. Marat's system of curing stammering by means of a cinematograph film showing a stammer's imperfect lip movements compared with those of a normal speaker. M. Marat combines other treatment ■with breathing exercises. THE WAR SCARE. GERMANY AND RUSSIA. LONDON, March 11. The anti-Ruisian press campaign between Germany and Austria is be.ng cont. nucd. Coiunient'iig on the matter. Lord Cromer (who was Consul-General 1 in Egyut) uiges a settlement of the Irish question, thereby averting a calamity The civil war s.care is enjoy : ng the attention cf the German press, which renders it highly undesirable that anythin" should occur to prevent the Brit. ish Government speaking to the Councils, of Europe in the name of a united people.

ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. BERLIN, March 11

The Russian war scare has threatened a panic oii the Stock Exchange, and a fall was arrested by an official denial. The Government is preparing a Bill to exnend £25,000,000 on artillery and cavalry. BRITISH LAND CAMPAIGN. LONDON, March 11. In the House of Commons Hon. D. Lloyd George (Chancellor of the Exchequer), replying to Sir J. S. Randies (Unionist member for Manchester N.W.) motion, justified his attacks on landowners. He sa ; d that they had illustrations of landowners receiving great values created by local enterprise without contributing anything, and quoted several .of Bon. Joseph Chamberlain's speeches, which showed that Conservative papers had attacked Mr Chamberlain in a similar manner. He congratulated himself that his land campaign had roused the public conscience. THE SUFFRAGETTES. LONDON, March 11. The cuts made on the picture of Venus are Gin long, and are all in the figure. There is little doubt that they can be repaired, so that the slashes will be practically unnotieeable. A number of Suffragettes travelled to London in Mrs Pankhurst's train, but tne police stopped it at London Road station, leaving the part containing the Suffragettes in a tunnel, though Mrs Pankhurst's carriage was alongside the platform. The women tried to climb out, but the train proceeded, carrying them to Euston station.

Mrs'Pankhurst was in a state of collapse when she was taken to Holloway Prison.

THE BRITISH ARMY. LONDON, }litrcli 11. Colon"! Seely, in introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons, said that although there was a shortage of 8000 Regulars there was a mrphis of 13,000 Reservists. The speedinn; up mobilisation was remarkably successful, an expeditionary force of 162,000 being complete in all details, and 50,000 of all arms being ready in a few hours to go anywhere. Though the Territorials were 5(3,000 short the year's recruiting had been the biggest on record, and there was a continuous and substantial increase of efficiency. He d : d not say that such an army was able to meet every Imperial call. For this they would want the help of the dominions overseas, but the British Army was able to cope, with even a bolt from the blue. The National Reserve was now over 217,000, and if Britain went to war to-morrow and wanted 102,000 horses there were 275,000 available. It was untrue that fore : gners were depleting the British supply. The test for accuracy showed that the American rifle was first and the British second, but the British rifle was superior for all-round reliability.