GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 9, 21 December 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association A London, December 20. Mr Ramsay Macdonald, speaking at Caxton Hall, declared that the democratic foreign policy should centre itself on Germany. It was necessary to disarm the suspicion felt in Gernany towards England, which could never be done by piling up the naval expenditure.

in order to meet the higher wages the railway companies are increasing fares 5 per cent.

The Swansea Valley floods have subsided. The damage is estimated at £BO,OOO.

The Catholic Bishop of Kildare declared that the murder of Mrs O’Mara. i farmer’s wife who was shot dead while answering the door, covered the people with shame. It was the natural outcome of a disgraceful system of intimidation, and “moonlighters’ ” immunity from punishment. People in certain districts of County Clare had he added, become completely demoralised.

Berlin, December 20. The Estimates for 1912 show a deficit of £2,187,000 sterling, mainly due to the widening of the Kiel Canal. As compared with 1911, the naval expenditure is increased £1,270,000, and the_ army £1,000,000. A National Defence League is forming to help the army, on similar lines to those employed by tho Navy League.

Cairo, December 20

The Nationalist journal “Alalam’* has been suspended for three months for publishing violent articles against tho Government. Teheran, December 20. Tho anti-British boycott at Shiray has ceased.

Calcutta, December 20. Owing to trouble over arrears of pay, six hundred Chinese at Lhassa mutinied, and plundered the mint and the Umban’s residence. It is reported the Llama paid 100,000 taels to get rid of the mutineers. Chinese troops at Chumbi sold their munitions and fled towards the Indian frontier.