GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 136, 1 August 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITAIN’S 1911 DESTROYERS. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. London, Jn!y,f 31. ■ ; The Admiralty has placed orders for twelve destroyers out of twenty belonging to the 1911 programme. Bbme of the new typo will have a of 33 knots. *i. : . Italian dignity offended. Rome, July \3l. Owing to tho Argentine imposing ifksome quarantine, tlio Government, in order to uphold its national dignity, has issued a j decree suspending emigration to the Argentine. ■ - . . n' RAILWAY WAREHOUSE DE- - STROYED. Paris, July 31. The Northern Railway warehouse at St. Ouen, stocked with electrical material, has been burned. The ■damage is estimated at a million francs. DROUGHT IN INDIA. (Received 1, 9.20 a.m.) London, July 31. Reuters’ Simla correspondent states that half of India is suffering from drought, and crops are withering in all the central provinces and Punjaub. The monsoon continues fitful. WEALTH OF FRANCE. (Received 1, 9.20 a.m.) Paris, I uiy 31. Edmond Thery estimates that the wealth of France in 1892 was 9680 millions sterling, and in 1908 it was 11,691 millions. The value of agricultural land had decreased from 3434 millions to 3377 millions. AVIATION. Paris, July 31. The aviator Beaumont has won £20,440 this year, Vedrines £80(10, Garros £6OOO, and Vidart £4009.