GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 6, 16 December 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 16, .1.23 p.m.) Delhi, December 15.

There arc some oitter criticisms on the removal oi me capital. Calcutta shopkeepers are didsmayed, and say wse suggested administration of tn-e mime is solely guided by the ideas oi a small amend coterie. .London, December 15. John Bunyan’s copy of Fox’s “Book of Atartyrs ‘ was submitted at auction. Fix hundred pounds was offered, when tiie book was withdrawn. .Eleanor Davies Colley has been enrolled ns fcne first woman Fellow of

me Royal College of Surgeons. Her father and two orotliers are already fellows.

The Clydesdale stallion Baron of Buchlyne uas sold at auction for L9.50U. The stallion, was the subject of protracted litigation. Lord Rosebery has purchased the racehorse Signorinetta, it is believed at about £IU,OOO. in me game of billiards there was much indifferent play. In the afternoon Cray totalled rUOo, including a .break of 254, and Stevenson siß. Cray was then over 700 -ahead. During the evening Cray made 295. 3 Thg dispute ootwoen Humidor Bros, and the Newport dockers has been settled. i lie Northumberland coal-owners have declined to agree to the proposed minimum wage. The War Office is offering £6OOO in prizes for an aeroplane competition, open to the world, also £SOOO for a competition confined to British aeroplanes. Vienna, December 15. The Archduke Henry Ferdinand, brother of Princess Louise, of Saxony, lias 1 fallen in love with a bourgeois beauty. The Emperor Francis Josef refused to allow the marriage. He granted the Archduke indefinite leave of absence from his regiment to i ursue his art studies.

Washington, December 15

The House Committee of investigation on the merchant marine and fisheries learned through the secretary of tho Seamen’s Union that uic majority of passenger-carrying ships on the Atlantic coast lacked enough members of crew to man the lifeboats.

The Senate is likely to adopt a resolution abrogating the Russian Treaty of 1832, because of its discrimination against American Jews. New York, December 15.

The second trial of Dr. Hyde, for the murder of Colonel Thomas Swope, by poisoning, lias ended. A juror escaped, and when captured be was found to be insane. The jury were then discharged. The case excited tremendous interest, Dr. Hyde being medical attendant to Swope. At San Francisco three physicians and two druggists pleaded guilty to being involved in the opium traffic. There were numerous raids recently in Chinatown with a view to stamping out the evil. Over two hundred Chinese were arrested in one raid, Mr. Roosevelt, in an article in tho “Outlook,” asks Labour to set its face like flint against lawlessness in >ts own rank. Labour leaders who championed the McNamara brothers rendered evil service to the cause of Labour.

Ottawa, December 15

The request of a Hindu delegation from British” Columbia, asking for tho removal of restrictions in bringing their families, has been granted, hut no others will be allowed the be-

neiit except British Columbia residents.

At Winnipeg the elevators arc full to the roofs with grain, and the railways arc unable to deal with the congestion. Thousands of tons of grain are stacked in tho streets of country towns, the owners being unable to ship it. Farmers in several places fought to be first to get their grain despatched. The loss will be heavy.

Paris, December 15. The Comte de Mini opened the

Franco-German debate. The Chamber was crowded. He delivered a telling speech, the effect of which was that previously, in the history of France, tho nation laid lost colonics, but always with weapons in hand. JL was now different M. Deselves, who was much interrupted by laughter lyul ironical cheers said that Germany resolutely refused to overrate the Conference of Algeciras’ powers, and stated that if another conference were called slic would insist on the ro-estnblishmont of the status quo created by the Algceiras agreement. After Franco had refused to cede any part of Morocco, Germany asked for the whole of Gaboon and tbeCongo between the ocean and the Sanga River, Franco receiving Togoland and a strip of the Carneroons. Tension was created when Franco refused. Germany then suggested that lie should he given access to the Congo River, and afterwards proposed to divide Morocco into two zones, one in which Germany would have the advantage. The outline of the ultimate agreement only emerged in October . Spain was now asked to pay an equitable price for the benefits conferred by the Franco-German agreement.

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