ADDITIONAL CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 14628, 26 July 1911, Page 8

ADDITIONAL CABLES.

Tim following cables appeared on July 15, 17, and 18 iu Australian papere employing tho independent Press cable service :

A London message states tiiat the new General Post Office in Hollowny has been formally opened. Its erection occupied Iwo years, and tJic building its declared to lie* the finest of its kind ia tho world. lii tho current issue of his political weekly, ' The Commoner,' .Air W. J. Bryan writes:-: —"Mr Carnegie -.-ays that prices should be fixed by a commercial court, and that a combination is to be regarded as an established and unproveui.Vole fait. Tho public are asked to put their hope in regulation. Who will regulate tho oT'ii-iiH that appoints the other officials? Tho President. Who selects the President'.' 'J'ho trusts. That is tlie programme which hats been suece-ssfully curried out so far."

The. annual report, of the Essen Chamber of Commerce reveals that during last war 6L 1 ,000 haitds wero employed at Krupp's' w.irkes. and that, about £450,030 was :.-:pent on industrial insurance and re-

i-'rom .leanolle, in Pennsylvania, comes i. srorv of the fate that overtook a man.

one Ciiiano, who- was stipposod to Ixi a nunitier of the notoriottf; Black Hand organisation. Ciiiano, who was an Italian, end a barber, was entering tho establishment of a wholesale fruiterer, when the proprietor, Labarto, opened fire with a revolver, and shn-t him dead. Labarto had lately received no lower than eight Black Hand letters, demanding that he should pay £4OO to the person who should light a cigar in his doorway. When Ciiiano came along to Labarto's shop and titopped at the entrance to light a cigar, the fruiterer naturally look him to be tho blackmailer by whom he wat to be visited. He did not wait to have his suspicions confirmed, but seizing his. automatic level ver, he i-'iot Ciiiano dead immediately Ik> saw him.

Count 1 iy/.a, l! 1.- only sen of a former Hungarian Premier, rem etiy married the Count es.; Voiikoroszcg. No sooner had they embarked at Venice on their honey.•noon 'rip thin the bride insisted on having separate apartnierii.s On the voyage to .dentone, tu France, she occupied a. separate cabin, only meeting her husband at meal limes. A! Mentone they met a Ficncnwonvji; who isaid she was the widow ot a Hungarian Consul, but next morning tee Count was itifointed that his wife had

started lor langiers with another man wiio had been awaiting Lor arrival at Men'oue. Retut-ini-g home, tiie Count, found

that ius wife had simply gone back to her family. She, however, refuses to 'be reconciled t> her husband, and demands a ,e..,„i-,iiion. If, is believed that the conduct !•: the Countess wss intended to invite jmcc-J.itigs in the Divorce Court. lL is oumated by a recognised authority thai. Australia has* exported 005,000 sove-n-ig..'- to Germany during the last fort-

The Italian Chamber of Deputies has compelled |:. ( - Cabinet to order a. special mve.slig.iuoi: with tiie object ot ascertaining why tiie new Pala.ce of Justice in Pome cost £700,000 more than Ihe estimate. The rmnounceinent that the Princo ot AVii!:,,.. wjU soon embark on a. tour of ihe world is aiou.-ing considerable interest m diplomatic circles at Washington. It is considered sigmfkaiel. that the itinerary winch has been mapped out for his journey aere.-ri Oanadi to Vancouver will bring thy Prime, to the United States within a lew weeks of Iris leaving England. New j oik is niutii perturbed by the alIcgatm:!.-. I hid, have been made regarding tiie carelessness of the Quarantine Station ciiiuaie in allowing employees to mingle vv.th outsideic, while cases of Asiatic cholera were at the station. Tiie night watchman at the etation, while in the city', was seized with illness, and was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, wlieie he lay 24 hours before it was discovered that ho was suffering from cholera. The- victim wa, then i-nt otf to quarantine, but his case was so bad that he died two hours later. llepivii-g to the severe criticism of the 'C.:po Times' on its article suggesting that u might be advantageous to both Great Britain and South Africa if the latter remained ueutoil in the event- ot" war between Ibigitiid and Oennimy, the " Volksstem.' the ollkiai organ of the Botha party, says: "John Bull to-day boasts that for all practical purposvs the colonies are absolutely independent, and are bound to tho Empire only by considerations of personal interest. Trie argument that the . colonies are rep.-i.bio i f reuuiutng neutral in the exenr of a world-wide war has not elicited serious criticism from jurists, and the doctrine is cot new." The London 'Times' describe.-; the ' Volk-stem's ' reply as unconvincing. ihe hot weather at New Yoik is be coining abnormal, and one ot the most eeiious aspects Of the extraordinary season is that an ice famine is threatened. There hits been an excessive demand, and the companies have, put up their price* 300 per cent. They also refuse to sell except to recognised dealers. About 100 .men and women, driven almost frantic by the heat, stormed the offices ot one of the refrigerator companies-, and forced the manager to distribute ecapons that could be exchanged for ice at the store. I'rofcssor Tomi/u. of the Imperial University in I'ekie. has been interviewed regarding tho modified alliance into which Britain aed Japan have entered. He seems to believe thru the- new treaty is directed agaiast- the ce.rueon interests ot Russia and Japan, end licit it will make it necessary for thee- countries to draw closer together io>ouM (hj,. occasion Professor Toiiiie.ii i... ,i well-known Japanese savant, in 1005 he v...;* compelled to resign from the Imperial Lniveisity owing to his op-p'j-itk:i to the peace- treaty between Russia, a'.id Japcn, but in the following year resumed his professional duties. More stringent supervision of national banks bei.ig deemed necessary, orders have been is.sued from Washington to all bank examine:f> directing them to insist upon monthly meetings, «,<f dircctots, and upon tho adoption o: a permanent system of appiov.ing of loans and discounts. Professor Metchnikoff, tiie well-known Russian scientist, ban energetically set about tho task of trying to eradicate cholera tro:n. Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea. In that region alone List year there were

2.";j.C03 victims. If successful ia this effort. i'loiec-.cr MefchmkolT and his staff will a; e.:v.,ards concentrate their scientific measures- o:t the Kirghiz Steppes, w'nere there '•- aiwaes, a danger of an outbreak of buh: eic plague. Should succes.-i in fhat re- . i-m also be achieved, Europe will thcroj'\--<: be- comparatively cafe from plague and cholera epidemics. Continuing hi? evidence at the trial of the i. e.morrist-s in Viterbo, Captain FaLuoiil, one of tho three Carabiniers wht>, tinder a falso guise>, wormed themselves into titc confidence of some of the prisoners and obtained certain admissions from them, rebutted the allegation that Cera birders had manufactured evidence for Ike prosecution. The witness asked that he might be allotted a whole day in which to refute specifically, one by ono, all the accusations that had been made by tho prisoners and their counseL Captain Fa-bi-oui declared that the> finger-ring worn by Cuoocolo at tire time of his murder appeared to be identical with that produced iu court. Diplomatic circles, at Washington regard the modification of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty as the removal of the last obstacle to the consummation of the, arbitration agreement between Britain and America. 'ino State Department is pleased at tho renewal of the treaty, for if, clears the way for the adoption of the Anglo-Ameri-can Arbitration pact. It is believed that, in her anxiety to conclude an arbitration treaty with the United States, Japan is ready to "kneel on the carpet.'' The expenditure connected with the administration of the Civil Service (says a London telegram) has grown from £30,000.000 to £47,000,000 per annum duriue; the last Jive years. The scheme of taxation contained in the last Budget has created 817 now posts, the Labor Exchanges 1,456, Inland Revenue 200, and State Insurance a host more. The feeling is growing that political supporters of fitting mcaabera have been-giwsi. pwfewnca

! for these positions, and public, criticism of ! the- increase and the admini-dration is growing daily. A crucial test of the New York harbor defences is about to be made, for the purposes of which aeroplanes will be employed lo act in conjunction with torpedo uoa-ts. Another fetituro of the scheme to he carried out will lie tho use of submarines in repelling an attempt of 17 battleships to force an entrance into the harbor. Simultaneously" with these operations in New York tho land forces iu San Francisco, bv the aid of powerful searchlights, will be engaged in defending the fort against a night attack by the Pacific fleet. | Count Witte is piiblisldng a pamphlet giving his version of the Portsmouth Treaty, which terminated the war between Japan and Russia. The author says that he was in power in Russia at the lime, and he baulked at the demand that the southern part of Sagiialien should bo ceded and that the northern portion, of the island should be jointly controlled by 'japan and Russia on tho payment by tho latter of 1,200,000,000 yen. as he regarded this condition as a veiled insistence on an indemnity. Count Witte adds that Mr Roosevelt, then President of the United States, cabled to the Tsar declaring that Japan's demand was justifiable, and that Russia's refusal to comply with it might lead to tho loss of her in Eastern Siberia, as Japan had deposited £50,000,000 iu American banks, which would he available for her to continue tlie war. Tho Tsar, says Witte, laconically replied that Russia's position was unchanged, and soon alter Japan waived her demand. This incident, the pamphlet continues, accounts for Mr Roosevelt's failure to visit Russia during his recent European tour.