GENERAL CABLE NEWs.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14865, 16 December 1911, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWs.

*BOM AUSTRALIA* VHVEBS : j — ; v| _ WHEN BRITAIN IS AT WAX Spkakixg at a meeting of th» i? League, Sir George Reid said' miuro heard of an arrangement ■ proposed mi ' which, in time of war. any Empire could merely "look on"' °1 tba . ' a struggle in which the Mother" 8 might be involved. " The 5 idea ? surd declared Sir Gcoiw « Tf *ab bo impossible for cither Austral' 11 ' 1 Canada to stand out if tho ° r ■ ' •> i»•».*«i.■ * C'i-'#2 CANADA AND THE NAVY Mr. J. D. Hazen, Canadian HinisU Marine and Fisheries, is leaving for £? .1;, S land to consult with the Admiralty St ii what form Canada'a contribution to Imperial Navy should take. 119 FIGHTING AIRSHIPS Tho Berlin correspondent of ard says that the German War • considering plans for building „ fleet * - : airships. The dirigibles wiK.T/ Zeppelin type, and each will be arm«? ' with guns and maimed by a fighting It is proposed to build a fleet capable of H carrying 300 men. . °° HOME RULE. 1 Replying in the House "of Commons last week to a question by Mr W ' O'Brien, the Prime Minister said ' that, Home Rule would be forced throueh all constitutional means. B ' BULGARIANS AND TURKS. ~ A. mosque at Istib, in European Tnr." key, was last week destroyed bv-dtmL mite, twelve Turks being killed in t ha explosion. The disaster was followed hi ' an outbreak against the . Bulgarian mi I I dents, who were suspected of having pe r " • ? petrated the outrage, and in the notinc that occurred fourteen persons were killed ft and 150 others wounded. ® . V . NEW STEAMSHIP SERVICE, An Austrian company is arranging fo* 1 a regular steamship service between Trieste and Australia. The company's vessel* will make, eight voyages yearly.'";; LABOUR'S CHALLENGE. . , . Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of tha American Labour Federation, says he challenges the world to show that or* ganised labour had any hand in the destraction of the Los Angeles Times office, \ or in any other dynamite outrages. "Un. ionism will progress/'' declares Mr. Gom. pers, " despite its enemies. Whatever lengths they go to, the enemies ,of tho working*, people cannot injure, the cause -* of labour." SLEEPING SICKNESS AT SEA. The ship Antoinette arrived■ at the*/. 1 French port of Saint Nazaire with 12 ofljX her crew suffering from sleeping sickness!* It was about a month after the' shin'" sailed from Java that the disease broka out, and three sailors were so severely • stricken that they died. The health' offi- ' : cers at Saint-Nazairo found all ' the sufferers in: a state of stupor, -arid- the ■ ship overrun with rats. '' i ,f ' J' , ■ RUSSO-AMERICAN TREATY. ■ • A resolution for terminating the treaty with Russia that was signed in 1832 has' I '' been brought forward in the United | > States House of Representatives by Con- . gressman Sulyer, chairman of the Com-j J mittee of Foreign Affairs. The resolution i declares that, the United - States will not ' be a party; .to any agreement which dis- , | criminates against race,and religion, ; &nd which refuses to honor American passports for Jews. r ■ , - "" NEW YORK FIRE TRAGEDY. An extraordinary scene was witnessed outside the Supreme Courthouse in. New York, where Isaac Harris and .Mas Blanch, of the Triangle Shirt-.Waist 5 Co,, ' are now being tried on the charge of manslaughter arising out of the fire® by which their factory was destroyed", tod:,;, 150 of the employees lost - thtir lives. Gathered outside the courthouse were a.; number of girls and women, all survivor* fJ/ • of the dreadful disaster by which so many.: of their fellow-workers went to their "' 'doom. Ever since the catastrophe occurred a very bitter feeling has been mani- ; fested towards Harris and" Blanch, anajp?.; 1 as they were approaching the court they j were violently set upon by tho girls. » i Ths two men were punched, scratched, and § otherwise knocked about unmercifully, and the court officials and police 'had a tough job getting them out of tho.hands, j of the enraged women. , . THE FRENCH PREMIER. The " Republique Francaise" confirms , ; tho story of a, Geneva paper that the French . Premier, iM. ! Cailiaux, : attempted to bulldoze ■; King Alfonso - over Morocco. King Alfonso was informed by M. Cau- •: laux that there must be decisive • action on the part of Spain, otherwise the Spanish dynasty might. be threatened. To this communication King Alfonso made the curt retort, "Spain is not Portugal, •* and then informed Great Britain and «, other interested Powers of • the , incidentFollowing this the Premier, in an .inter* view with the British Ambassador m j ; Paris, made certain remarks about the Anglo-French entente ; that ' were of such a character that:: the latter reported them to London, and President Fallieres was .^', finaliy compelled to intervene. The R®* publiquo Francaise" . declares that M. • Cailiaux is "a dangerous man in dipiO; .* < macy '" — , : PORTUGAL'S EXHAUSTED TEEASURY. With tho object of ingratiating itself . into the favour of the people the P°, r *. u * ' guese Republican Government, immediately y after last year's revolution, announced y . that all tenants paving an annual reniM of £30 would be exempt from the WfLmrt tax. This concession meant, , a r ?£ uct, J' j of 15 per cent, in taxation.- «In® reorganisation of the country has, howeve > drained the Treasury to' such an ex that it has been found necessary w'*®*' ; impose the house tax. A great °v <7 has been raised against the action oi Government. MURDER IN A LIFT. . Isadoro Vogel, a diamond merest, j was murdered in 1 New V ork. Hia h body, was discovered in the, lut, building in the business quarter, ajß was evident that he had been do death in the most „ atrocious ; Robbery was the motive for the > for a packet of diamonds, worth £3000, which Vogel was known to IJJin his possession at the t mc( „ n( j . missing. The janitor of the building , the lift attendant have been _arrwted ~, u,charged in connection with the trsg N— =====