VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1907, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.

By Telegraph. — Press Association. — Copyright. • THE' BRITISH NAVY. " LONDON, 25th August. The Temcraire, 18,600 lons, one of the three latest vessels of the Dreadnought type, has been launched at Devonport. FIZZLiyG OUT. NEW YORK, 26th August. The telegraphists' strike is apparently fizzling out. (The strike, which waD for increased pay, was pretty general in the- United States and Canada.) STRIKE IN MEAT TRADE. j :N!MV YORK, 25th August. Twelve thousand drivers employed in the wholesale moat trade in New York have struck. DISHONESTY. LONDON, 24th August. The Daily Express reports that a sum of £2000, intended to pty the officers and crew of the steam repair-ship Assistance, stationed at Lamlash, in Scotland, is missing. A warrant has been issued for tho arrest of an officer. (The Assistance is a vessel of 9600 tons, attached to the Channel Fleet.) (Received August 26, 8.20 a.m.) THE ANTWERP STRIKE. ANTWERP, 25th August. The. Shipowners' Foderation at Antwerp has voted a million francs to resist the- dockers' strike. (Seveial hundreds of British labourers have been engaged to take the places- of tho strikers.) AN APPOINTMENT. LONDON, 2'6th August. Captain Oltlcy has been appointed Secretory to the Committee on Imperial Defence. (Captain Ottley, E.N., M.V.0., wan j born in 1858, was educated on board : H.M.S liritannia, and cnteiod tho j navy in 1871. He served in the Egyptian War, and was present at the bombard- j nient of Alexandria. After acting an Senior A aval Officer at Por.t Said aur 1 Constantinople, ho was promoted to Post Captain and apointed Naval Attache to thti Maritime Courts. In 1904 ho became a member of the nucleus of the Committee of imperial Defence, and in the same year became Director of NavaJ Intelligence.) CAULKERS TO RESUME WORK. » LONDON, 24th August . Caulkers have been ordered -o resume work on Monday, therefore the lmployers' Federation has withdrawn Uiu lock-out notices to boilcrmakei'G employed rfi tho shipbuilding yards. iCoiTotiations are progressing with tho latter lor a permanent Agreement to prevent tho adoption of sudden and extreme measures by cither side. (Tho Shipbuilding Employers' Federation recently gave a Weeks notice to 50,000 members of the Boilemukcrs' Society employed in the shipbuilding yarcls on tho Tync, Clydo, Wear, Burrow, and at Bcltast, in consequence of tha Boilermakers' Society refusing to instruct the caulkers at Armstrong's yaul. Newcastle, to return to work after a stiikn without not'ee. The action of the Employers' federation created surprise and consternation among tho men.\ ) SKNT Tfr SIBERIA. ST. PETERSBURG. 25th August. Thirty-eight thousand men and women were banished to Siboria from Warsaw in a year fqr political offences. THE P. AND, 0. COMPANY. LONDON, 25th August. The Peninsular and Oriental Company has ordered three steamers of the Moldavia class and an express steamer, aggiegating 40,000 tons, at a cost to largely exceed n million. j plM&liV^ of 950 ° tons I AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. \ LONDON, 26th August. The cruisers Psycho and Pioneer have been recommissioned for the Australian station, and will leave Singapore for Australia on Monday. [The Pioneer igmi third-class protected cruiser of 2200 tons, und the Psyche, of 2135 tons, is in the same class.]