GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, 18 August 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WIRELESS IN EGYPT. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. London, August 17. Lloyds have secured a monopoly of wireless in Egypt. They will erect ,i station at Port Said, and it will bo ready iu October. GERMAN TRADE. Berlin, August 17. Since January 1, Germany’s imports have increased by 15,000,000, and her exports by £10,500,000, as compared with 1910. STOCK DISEASE IN GERMANY. Berlin, August 17. Seven thousand six hundred and sixty-nine farms are affected with fool and mouth disease, which, in combination with a shortage of fodder, is causing apprehensions of a shortage of meat. Tho Government is considering the reduction of railway rates on fodder, and if possible, importation from abroad. DROUGHT IN INDIA. Calcutta, August 17. There are gloomy drought reports from Delhi, which is becoming the centre of a huge cropless and waterless area. There is a serious cholera outbreak. It is definitely settled. that the military programme for tho .Durbar will be greatly curtailed as a consequence. TRUSTMONGERS PUNISHED. New York, August 17. Thirteen members of a poultry trust, operating only in New 1 York City, wore sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and each fined £IOO for conspiracy in restraint of trade. The trial lasted 53 days.