ADDITIONAL CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 14626, 24 July 1911, Page 3

ADDITIONAL CABLES.

♦ The following items appeared, on July 12, 13, and 14 in Australian papers employing the independent Press cable service : In anticipation of the early completion of the Panama Canal, General Aleshire, of the United States Army, is completing arrangements for the quartering of tioops along the- great waterway. Plans of the fort lid cat ions and armaments arc being expedited, and the Secretary of War and General Wood, Chief of Staff, are now on their way to Panama to complete the general scheme of defence. The 12th of July celebrations in Hull, Quebec, passed off without any of the disturbances by which it was feaxed they would bo marked. The Chief of Police, who is a Catholic, walked at tno head of the Orangemen's procession, and as a result of his action the crowds treated the parade with good-natured tolerance. At the close of the procession the Orangemen gave the police chief three rinsing cheers. The seamen's .strike in Rotterdam Ikh> ended, the men having accepted the shipowners' offer of a monthly increase of ss. The polico had a sensational chase after some criminals at Chicago. Three men attempted to hold up a jewellery store, but promptly abandoned the- enterpriseupon a couple of constables making their appearance. Jumping into a motor car that they had in waiting, the would-be robbers went tearing away at top speed. The two policemen just as quickly commandeored another automobile that was near by, and after a lively pursuit got within shooting range of the escaping fugitives. A brisk revolver duel theu ensued, but without any hits being scored on either side. Finally the criminals quitted their ear, and, dodging into an alley, got clear away.

Tiie. ' Manchester, Guardian ' learns that the Waj- Office is arranging for a number of time-expired regulars to emigrate to the Oversea Dominions with the object of their enlisting in the military forces in those countries. Tho Naval and Military League are co-operating in the movement.

At the National Building Convention in Cleveland. Ohio, Air Mortimer, vice-presi-dent of the New York Realty Co., announced that tho company had had plana prepared for the erection of a building of ICO is tori os. The structure-, it was mentioned, would Iks l,2Coft high. The Academy of Sciences have completed tbo experiments they have been carrying out with a view to ascertaining what could be accomplished in tho way of establishinc telephonic communication between submarine, boats. It is reported that communication was maintained 'over a wide and that the results generally were highly effective. The Pollava, tho second of tho four Dreadnoughts for the Russian Navy, the construction of which was commenced in June, 1909, has been launched. The new chip is one of 23,000 tons. Tho Central News Agency reports that a powerful combination of financiers, contractors, and electrical engineers hr.ci boon formed in London for the purpose of undertaking to finance a scheme for the construction and operation of large electrical works in all parts of the world. Mr Norton Griffiths, M.P.. j» the president of the combination, which includes representatives oi leading British and French institutions. Branch offices aro to be opened iu Eaet and West Canada, South America. Australia, New Zealand, South Afrca, Spain, Turkey, and in other countries.

A mysterious ajid daring attempt was made at night to capture St. George Castle, a strongly defended fortrees topping a hill in the centre of Lisbon. It is thought to have been a move on the part of the Royalists, but tho attempt proved unsuccessful. Tho disastrous results that followed an attempt by two old miners to divide a keg of gunpowder aro reiatcd in a message from Pittsburg. The old men had been lifelong partners, and separating, as they wero about to do, they determined that a keg of powder which they had shovld lie fairly divided between them. Each in turn helped himself to a handful, and when at List there was otdy a small quantity remaining they decided to burn it. A match was applied to the powder, and the result of the explosion was that the other heaps of gunpowder lying near by ignited also, and exploded with a terrific re-port. One of the men, Vendring Goolish, was blown to atoms, while his mate John Semenich, was so dreadfully burned that the doctors say he must die. Some interesting; witnesses were called at the Gamorra trial, whose examination revealed the methods adopted by the Italian polico in procuring evidence against the Camorrist.H. Three of the witnesses were carabinier officers—Fabroni, Capizutti, and Farris-—all of whom had done work in connection with the ca-so. Disguised as a Sardinian brigand, Capizutti had mingled tho criminals, and had induced tho informer Abbatemaggio to make admissions. Fabroni assumed the rolo of a clerk of the Ministry of Justice,, and obtained information that proved the connection which existed between officials of tho Neapolitan judiciary and members of the Camorra. Farris related how, by playing the part of tho gentleman, and entertaining the Camorra treasurer, he induced that official to make a number of incriminating statements. The prosecution regards tho work accomplished by these witnesses as a complete succesH.

A Vancouver message states that fully I,COO persons aro estimated to have perished as a result of the forest fires, and of that number about 100 were drowned in La.ko Huron. One launch with 22 passengers on board capsized, and all hands were lost. Several smaller boats sank through ueing overloaded, and the overturning of canoes also was responsible for the loss of manv lives. In some instances women and children stood throe and four hours in the lake seeking rofuge from the unendurable hoat. One survivor remarked : "To go through this is to travel through hell !" Acts of heroism were witnessed on every hand. One extraordinary spectacle was that of a man who had both ©yes burned, but whose only lament was that his partner had perished. Many of the- horrors of the great catastrophe are too ghastly for publication.