GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 95, 5 December 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (.United Press AssociationJ London, December 4. Th.e preliminary reports of the trades union and railwaymen’s ballot indicate that the majority have rejected the commission's report, and recommend stoppage. Those at Bradford and Sheffield are almost unanimous against the report. Stratford and East Lb ndon protested against the executive’s action in regard to the agreement at the conference. Similar protests were made by Sheffield. The Bradford branch of the Amalgamated Railway men resolved that the projected' volunteer police force was a menace to tho people’s liberties, and recommended tho formation of a trades union physical protection league to meet.,.on equal terms the “bullies” organised by capital. . Two thousand carters at Liverpool have given notice that they will strike on the 9th unless their revised demands are fully conceded. Brussels, December 4. The Premier has introduced a Bill in the Chamber providing for a Parliamentary inquiry into the execution of the reforms in the Congo. The Premier declared that the laws were laxly administered, and that tho Catholic'Mission’s irregularities, including tho hogging of natives and the manufacture of liquor, had been lot go unpunished. Paris, December 4. Pending perusal and fearing his court had been assailed, King Alfonso ordered his aunt Eulalia., who is domiciled in Paris, to suspend publication of her book, bearing from the radical and feminists’ standpoint upon Socialism, religion and' marriage, placing character and honesty in the forefront. Eulalia, however, persists in publishing the book, and declares that she will relinquish court life. David Wolff Bishop, a member of tho New York Yacht Club, committed suicide. He bequeathed to his friend Jeanno de May, an actress, his residence, besides £50,000. Prevost aeroplaned with a passenger to a height of 9809 feet, a world’s, record.

(Received 5, 8.5 a.m.) Berlin, December 4. The “Post” states that Britain, and not Germany, is at the end of. its tether as regards shipbuilding. It was questionable whether she would lie able, without enlisting foreigners or adopting conscription, to carry out the two-keels-to-one policy if Germany lays down four or live capital ships yearly. (Received 5, 10.55 a.m.) Bombay, December 4. The report of the destruction of the Miri expedition is untrue.