Second Edition LATEST MESSAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 12, 30 August 1911, Page 6

Second Edition LATEST MESSAGES.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Press Association.

(Received, CO, 10.30 a.in.) London, August 29.

The wages of London constables lias been raised Is 6(1 per week unci' tiie higher grades proportionately. Berlin, August 29.

A Danish ship’s boat has been seized near Kiel and five arrests have been made for suspected espionage. Buda-Posth, August 29. Three cases of Asiatic cholera are reported. Athens, August 29. The University’s laboratories have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £120,1)00. (Received 30. 2 p.m.) New York, August 29. Six torpedo boats, driven by the storm at Charleston, went ashore, and a score of other small vessels have been wrecked. The whole of the lower part of the town is still under water. Telephone and telegraph communication has been destroyed. Seventy-five persons are marooned on the Isle of Palmas, and are suffering from hunger and thirst.

Light is thrown on the alleged prosperity of tiie United States by figures recently published. Tiie leading railroads during the past year dispensed with eighty thousand employees. Ottawa, August 29.

Forest fires in Newfoundland are destroying crops and dwellings. T he residents of two villages have been compelled to put to sea in boats in order to escape the. flames. Two villages at Trinity' Bay are imperilled.