GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 60, 25 October 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

,I3y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.J (Received 25, 8.5 a.m.) Ottawa, October 2!. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union is planning an anti-white slave tratiic campaign throughout Canada. At a convention held at Sherbrooke it was stated that fifteen hundred girls disappear each year from the dominion, who fall victims to the tratiic. AN INSANE MOTHER. New York, October 2!. While apparently insane, Mrs Axel Johnson locked herself and six children in her homo at Braddock, New Jersey, and then set lire to the house. All wore burned to death.. The windows were found nailed, and the room saturated with oil. THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT. (Received 25, 8.30 a.m.) London, October 21. The Amalgamated Society of Radway Servants has agreed to pay £OSO to‘end the Osborne litigation. The whole dispute cost the railway society £IO,OOO, ' DEAR FOOD IN GERMANY. Berlin, October 24. The Reighstag debated tiie question of dear food, tierr Hollwog declared that the abolition of duties was urged with the object of destroying the %sndamental principles of the country and the economic policy of the Government. He would resolutely resist even the suspension of the duties as dangerous. This declaration was greeted with uproar from the Social Democrats. FIRE ON A FRENCH BATTLESHIP. Paris, October 21. While ‘the.'battleship Suffern was about to leave Toulon, tiie magazine bulkhead was found to lie heated by a fire in the coal bunker. The magazine and bunker wore Hooded, and the fire extinguished. THE LIEERTE. Paris, October 21. The Liberte Commission lias reported that the catastrophe was attributed to the ignition of gunpowder in the cartridge magazine. There was no proof that it was due to nialevolence. The regulations were carried out with the greatest care, and the officers were absolved from blame. A FRENCH SCANDAL. Paris, October 24. General Toutoo declares that be precipitated matters in order to compel an enquiry. He alleges that the misappropriations amount to £184,000 The Government has ordered General Toutee to hold himself at the disposal of a committee of enquiry. •KILLED BY SOCIALISTS. St; Petersburg, October 24. A’band of armed socialists in vaded the headquarters of a Christian Union at Warsaw, where a committee was discussing measures to prevent strikes The socialists shot and killed the president and three committeemen, and wounded another. The assailants escaped. MISS M ALECK A RELEASED. St. Petersburg, October 24. Miss Malecka .has been released on bail, which was subscribed in England. THE SOUDAN. Cairo, October 24. A Council of-State for the Soudan has been created, consisting of a Gov-ernor-General and Secretaries of Finance, Interior, and Justice.