ADDITIONAL CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 14574, 24 May 1911, Page 7

ADDITIONAL CABLES.

| The following items arc taken from I Au6trailii.il papers of .May 15: I (living evidence at Washington before i the House of Representatives Committee on Military Affairs, Major-general Wood, Chief of the United States Army Statf, declared that the disarmament of nations ■was only a dream. A Seattle cable .states that ■incoming i steamers from Japan are laden with pat--1 sengors who are on their way to London I for the Coronation. As a result of Ihe S rush of visitors to England accommodation j ou the Transpaeilie linen is at a premium. I The Portuguese revenue lias lie-eii great ly decreased by tho partial failure of the wheat crop and vintage. A Lisbon me.sI sago states that the country is feeling tlm I loss of tho money taken away by tire exiled Royalties. The Emperor oi Japan has presented to Miss Maria Walters, of Ih.sUm (U.S.). a diploma of honor, and a silver laving cup, in recognition of her gift of £I,OOO to the hum no sufferers in tho northern part ef Japan a few years ago. The Home Hale Union in Lublin have already set about enrolling tho 2.000 speakers who arc wanted to lee.uiro thioughout the United King-dom under tho auspices of the Liberal party. . The dramatic circumstances in which an inventor was overtaken by death were related at an inquest held in Poplar on the body of Charles Jtratt. Rralt was an aged man, and a, saw-mill engineer, who had given nearly all the yea,is of his life to porfoi ting a machine. He had at had succeeded in his task, and. having given the first working demonstration of his invention. ho was receiving the congratulations of those present, when, with terrible suddenness, ho expired from heart failure. Following Mr Asquith's recent limn, Ilulo speeeli, attention is being focussed mi tho resuscitation of Ire] uid'a political clubs formed twenty yearn ago. It is estimated that, these clubs now have a. membership of 200,000, or 25,000 more than they had in 1893. The Orange bodies ure co-operating with tho Irish Unionist Ashoeiationii, and organisation is proceeding on up-to-date military lines, with tho object ot making possible tho mobilisation of every ablebodied Unionist within a few houts. Political circles outside Ulster do not regard seriously the threats of civil war, ytt in the province if eel f tho matter is not treated as a joke, ami the Covornmcnt are fully alive to the gravity of the situation.