ADDITIONAL CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 15140, 24 March 1913, Page 3

ADDITIONAL CABLES

The following cables appeared on March 11, 12, 13, and 14 in Australian papers employing the independent Tress cable service:— The United States Government are contemplating taking 16,000 actions against railway companies for violating the law limiting the maximum daily work of train crows to 16 hours. The Russian Parliament is taking action against an alleged naphtha trust which is said to exist in the Volga region, and which has pushed up prices to double the normal value. A rich gold mine has been discovered under very remarkable circumstances in Bombay. As a matter of, fact, its existence has been known for years to an old woman who, instead of revealing her find to anyone, quietly set about working the mine herself. She carried on her secret operations for many years, and won enough gold to keepherself provided throughout that time with all the necessaries of life. Recently, however, she was induced, by the gift of' a beautiful silk shawl, to disclose the whereabouts of her mine. A trial shaft was sunk, and the stuff that was brought up was found to yield 130 ounces to the ton. In the House of Commons the Home Secretary denied that Lilian Lenton, the suffragette who is now serving a sentence of 18 months for having set fire to the refreshment pavilion in the Kew Botanical Gardens, had had her lung pierced while being forcibly fed with the tube. Replying to a question by Mr J. King, relative to the hunger strikers, the Home Secretary said that it was doubtful whether persistent rubbing of cod liver oil into the pores of the skin would sustain life. Some remarkable discoveries followed a raid that was made by the police at the house of Olive Hoeken, a suffragette, living at Notting Hill, London. The police explored the premises thoroughly, and found a strange variety of things, including bottles of a corrosive fluid, firelighters, hammers, false motor car identification plates, miniature golf link flags, and clippers capable of cutting telegraph wire. Hoeken was subsequently brought before the West London Police Court and charged with having set tire to a pavilion at Eoehampton. Evidence, was given by the police that while searching the woman's house they discovered an extraordinary arsenal beneath the flooring boards. The accused was remanded for a week. Iceland is undertaking economic development and port improvements. A railway is to be constructed from the capital, Roykjavsk, to Lawe Thingvalla, which lies to the south-west. Dr Harvey, medical officer of the Clonmel Asylum in Ireland, has made a vigorous protest against the increase in the deportation of lunatics from America to Ireland. At a largely attended meeting on the white slave question held at the Little Theatre in London, Lord Willoughby do Broke, presided, and said that a mass of evidence had been collected 1 proving that the evil was flourishing extensively all over the country. Other speakers reported recent instances of girls who had been kidnapped in motor cars, and the meeting urged the appointment of a Royal Commission. Speaking at a meeting of the British Women's Emigration Association, Mrs Archibald Colquhoun said that she wished to disabuse the minds of her sisters in the Dominions that the association existed simply to assist in finding domestics for the oversea countries. The cooks and housemaid's were wanted just as badly in England as in the Dominions. One of the Paris dailies, ' L'lntransigeant,' publishes an article that, is intended to explain the increased miliitary activity in France. "Through the indiscretion of an eminent Italian politician," says the paper, "the French Government learned on January 13 that Germany had asked Italy if she would be ready to join Germany and Austria in a campaign, to begin in October, in order to put an end to the general uneasiness in Europe. Government inquiries full confirmed the information it had received, and thus urgent military measures were entered upon." The rumored resignation of Lord Knollys, the King's private secretary, is being much discussed. Referring to Lord Knollys's long period of service ill the Royal Household, the Archbishop of Canterbury is reported to have said that the' position of the King's private secretary was probably more confidential than that of any other in Court circles. No other mail knew so much and said so little. It is said that Lord Knollys opened, on an average, 500 letters a day. King Edward trusted him implicitly, and King George also has found him a valuable adviser. The London ' Times' in a le.ading article on the House, of Commons and the Parliament Act says that the unlimited control of the nation's affairs, which ought to he in the hands of the people's representatives, has passed into the control of the Cabinet whose autocracy has extended beyond domestic and_ financial legislation to Imperial affairs which have, hitherto been watched by the members of the House with the most anxious regard. The Act is injuring the Lower House, goes on the, 'Times,' and may soon prove prejudicial to the Imperial system. The Canadian Customs' revenue has increased by £492,316 in the last 10 months, representing 34 per cent, for the financial year. Sir A. Con a n Dovlo wannlv supports Major-Gcneral Sir Reginald Talbot's espousal of the Channel Tunnel scheme, and argues that in peace the tunnel will be a most valuable asset, and that in case of war against any nation but France it will greatly increase Briatin's offensive and defensive strength. After the King and the Queen had left Westminster and were on their way back to Buckingham Palace on the occasion of the opening of Parliament, ] a grey-headed old man, Simon Cohen, broke through the line of troops guarding the route, and running up to the Royal carriage, handed the coachman a paper. The document was afterwards found to be a petition, directing His Majesty's attention to the condition of in the East End. Cohen, who is 70 years of age, was taken into custody by the police. Wireless messages despatched from Key West, the United States naval station in Florida, have been picked up at Cairo, over 7,000 miles away. This breaks all previous records in longdistance wireless telegraphy. Residents in various parts of Great Britain have received unstamped letters upon which they have to pay the usual double surcharge. The envelopes contained pamphlets intimating that such tactics would cease when women were granted the vote. Discussing the abuse of hypnotics, the London ' Times,' in a leading article, says :—" There is an increasing body of nursing legislation which treats us all as if wo were little bovs, to whom the contents of the cubboard must bo doled out by the governess. However deplorable it may be, we are driven to confess that a strong case has been made out for some additional restriction." While a biograph show was proceeding at Montceau, in France, one of the films ignited, and in the panic that fallowed 46 persons were badly injured. Ten of them will probably die. Speaking before representatives of Chambers of Commerce at the Hotel Metropole in London to-day Lord Roberts said that things all round were very dark. The nations were increasing their armaments, but Great Britain was not increasing hers. " Tho navy,"

went on tho veteran soldier, "cannot protect the trade routes unless thero is a proper army to protect the country, and we must recognise that ill-trained men are a danger in time of war to the force to which they belong." In the course of a speech to-day Mr W. J. Bryan, American Secretary of State, declared that America's mission was to endeavor to support unity of action and sentiment among the English-speaking peoples. Loyal students in the colleges of Paris have sent a message to M. Poiucaro, saying: "Call us, President; we shall reply." During the week-end 2,000 students from the Latin Quarter marched to the. Strasburg Statue, in the Place do la Concord, with their student flag at the head draped in crape. The 100 th anniversity of the War of Liberation was celebrated in Germany last week. At the principal ceremony tho Kaiser read an order of tho day declaring that Germany would protect her honor against any assailant. "To that end," continued the order, " everybody in his place must take care that the army bears its device not only externally, but above all in its heart." The convicts imprisoned in the gaol at t Oviedo, Spain, mutinied. Using knives and revolvers, they fought desperately to effect their escape, out the guard proved quite equal to the task of suppressing the outbreak. Five of the prisoners v.ero severely wounded, and about a dozen others were slightlv injured.