ADDITIONAL CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 14637, 5 August 1911, Page 8

ADDITIONAL CABLES.

The following cables appeared on July 26, 27, a.nd 28 in .Australian papers w.plo.ying the independent Press cable service

j The se.creiarr of the American Labor ! Federation b.a,i" annealed to the 2,000.000 j members of that bodv to furoifh £IOO,OOO | for the defence of the. threa men charged i with having dynamited the oliice of the Los Angeles "Times' last October. The Nc Temere decree, formed the subject of a. question asked in the Ca-ruuiian 1-louQc of Commons, when Mr Taylor inquired whether th» Goverrimnt intended to taio stops !o ensure tbo legalisation of every mama-p? between a Protestant and a Catholic that had he-en solemnised in Canada. Sir Alan Aylcewcrth, Minister of Justice, replied that the- Cabinet's opinion was that the matter was one iu which the Government had no jurisdiction The crops in the Ferrara (Italy) province are practically a total loss as a result of the strike amosiL' the farm hands. After the labor difficulties .ust year, tire farmers invested largely in harvesting machinery, which, however, tha lab.ue.rs have e i;u-e resolutely refused to operate. Instead they «!t about abashing the new implements, but the. presence of the troops that had been summoned to the disaffected distrids prevented any wanton destruction of this kind. Some radical changas in the style of mon'fi giwmeriLs are contemplated by the society that has recently been brought into existence, at Berlin The new body numbers about 70 mem bore an<l embraces; all profession*;. The one great change *t which these dnvs rriMriiiei-s <um is Iho abolition of for which it is pro- ! posed to substitute knickerbockers. 'Khan I 't is desired that the- eo-.it and thv waistI coat should j;W« way to a kind of loose b!-.)use hanging well down to the knees. ; ihe reformers further propose io discard all sorus cf linen. The 'Cologne Gazette' points out th.it Goniiiuiv has hitherto had no infiiuMux' in male fashions, a- ciroum- | stance if uttribu'V'y lo ilia predominance of ; the military uniform over the. civilian | dress. The pipe]' considers that the I fashion in men's garments will continue; to j be sr.t in London. j It is finnly believe*! tiiat Persia i*f on ! the verge, of a long and bitter struggle beI twoen the present Government and the de- ' posed Sha.h, who has retur-iod under i bogus nassports with followers estimated i to number 30.000. The Government troops | number 50.000. but their loyalty is ! doubted. The German Press suggest that the Shah is an impostor, and is commissioned by England and Russia to create disorder, and thus facilitate the partition of Persia between those two Powers. Germany is closely watching developments. Several important resolutions will be. submitted at the next British Trades Union Congress, the opening cession of which takes place on September 4. The one that promises to cause the warmest controversy is that from the London glassblowers, who desire the congress to declare that a regular stand in*? army is a menace to popular liberty, and to recommend that a real citizen army, officered by men electwl from the rank and file, should be, established for defence purposes only. The agents of the National Association of Prudential Assurance will ask the conpress to move the Government in the direction of securing the nationalisation of industrial insurance. The dock laborers assert thnt Mr Lloyd George's unemployment and invalidity scheme requires workmen to pay too large a proportion of the premiums. In the House of (.-ominous jwrrd Hugh Cecil asked Mr Asquith whether, when his mind was made up on the subject of Home Pule, he would communicate the result to the House before confiding in the Press. The Prime Minister tartly replied : " That is an insolent question.'' It is rumored that Mr Lloyd Georcre, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 'may relinquish that office and become Secretary of the Foreign Office. The belief is* expressed that the change, should it take place, will mean that the Chancellor's recent speech before a leathering of London bankers has received official sanction. Dip. lomatists take the view that M. Delcasse's prominence in the French Cabinet and his well-known a.nti-Gernian proclivities will firmly bind France to England. Xo one has yet been mentioned as the Chancellor's probable eueccssor at the Treasury, j but the possibility of Mr Lloyd George ; being transferred io the Foreign Office lias created consternation among (he Gonserva- i fives. I Punning amok with a rifle at Chicago, ! a, Hindu known as Hussian killed ons | person and wounded half a dozen ethers j before his pi-omiscuous shooting could he stopped. After running up and down the ] street in a wild sort of way. Hussian posted . him=e!f in front of the Opera-house, and j began shooting at all and sundry. One shot after another was fiTed at people in the street, and s:'ven persons were struck before the demented fellow was grappled with. A great crowd soon collected, • and everyone wa.s calling out '" Lynch him '." This was exactly what those who had . seized Hussian intended to do. and it was only the arrival of a lar.ge body of policethat saved him from l>cirg strung up to the nearest, post., ft. was afterwards discovered that of the .--.even persons who had been shot, one had suffered fatal injuria*. A remarkable iseene was witnessed at a banquet held by ihe French Society nf Sciences, a dispute between Professor PelMet a-nd Professor Farjenel culminating in the former boxing the bitter's ears. Professor Peiliot is a well-known explorer, and during a recent, expedition in Chinese Turkestan he unearthed. quantities of manuscripts in the Grot to of the Thousand Buddha-. Returning to Paris, the professor found a triumphal reception awaiting him. but it was not. long before the genuineness of his discovery began to he quest ionfd. Professor Farjenei. of the Social Science College, and other critics accused the explorer of having foisted forged manuscripts on the National Lihiary. It was declared that the famous grotto bad several times been emptied of its manuscripts, with which, however, it was. always miraculously replenished by an ingenious n.itive forger. '1 his enterprising individual, it is averrrd. cioos a thrivitvr trade in hiding ancient. MSS. and selling them to simp)» foreigners. Professor Farjenel, after the above exouinjj iic-idrnr, did tint challengpi his assailant to a duel, but saw bis lawvers, n-nd instructed them to initirte a suit for assault. The Far] of Rosebcry in taking an active pari in trying to induce the -rel>el peers to e.cree. to a compromise over the Veto Pill. The belief is cvpicsscd that the gravity 1 of th" position brought about, by foreign complications mar do much in the war of lifa)in.r party differences. '■With Lord t-ansdowno I stand, and with Lord JL«ansdowne I am ready, if need be. to fail," deflates Mr Balfour in one of his spochii appeals. Fall he eertainlv will if anv Mib.-tnr.tial number of the 200 Tory rebels act as they threaten. While recognising Mr TJaJfour's supremo as a diilcctician and as a. debater, they regard him as havinc; all the old vices of the aristocracy in politics. He makes no urctence. of consulting his front-bench colleagues in anr sfrious, systematic wa-y. Even men like y<" Austen Chamberlain and Mr P.-Kiar i.yw know little more than uri mm in tr.e street regarding moves that are about to be made, while as for the rank and tile Mr Balfour, like bis grea.t-unc)e, the late Lord Salisbury, treats them with smiling contempt. Hence their muttering-;. "'lt ■n-ould be tetter.'' as one of the party remarked, '"'to have a less clever leader, like Mr Waiter Long, who would tell his followers where he proposes to go, and a*k them to share the real control." Mr Palfour, as another declared, is chiefh- anxious for the laurels of leadership without the burden aj*d the dust of office.