GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 20, 6 January 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

COLLAPSE OF A SCHOOL. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 6, 9.55 a.in.) Madrid, January 5. ■A school at St. Valle collapsed. The bodies of the master, three mistresses and three chcildren have been recovered. The ‘search continues. A SUBMARINE ORDERED. (Received 6, 9.20 a.in.) London, January 5. The Admiralty has ordered at Greenock a submarine of the Laureate type, with double hull. PUBLIC LOANS IN ENGLAND. (Received 6, 8.5 a.ra.) London, January 5. •The public loans raised in England during 1911 totalled £64,358,000 .compared uith., £143,342,000 in the previous year. These totals include £19,800,000 of colonial loans, compared with £43,126,500 in 1910. FIRE AND FREEZE. New York, January 5. Fire at Louisville, Kentucky, destroyed a large section of the business district. Ice formed instantly, owing to the record cold. TWENTY-THREE DREADNOUGHTS. Loudon, January 5. Twenty-three Dreadnoughts, to the orders of all nations, are now building in the United Kingdom, costing £41,400,000, whereof £28,980,000 will lie paid in wages, representing 35s a week, for 88,500. MONASTERY DESTROYED. Ottawa, January 5. The Trappist Monastery at Rosthern, Saskatchewan, was destroyed by fire. Fifty monks are dependent on farmers’ charity until they are able to rebuild in the spring. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. Washington, January 5. The first tariff .revisions will bo of the iron and steel schedules. The Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee recommends free iron ore for a general reduction of 25 to 35 per cent., and an increase on all stool and iron products. INCREASED SURVEILLANCE. (Received,6, 11.10 a.m.) Berlin, January 5. Trent and Brandon, imprisoned in a fortress after conviction of espionage, are subjected to a most rigorous restriction, owing to Lux’s escape.