GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 30, 18 January 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

the sugar convention

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 18, 8.6 a.m.) Berlin, January 17. Sugar experts have unanimously decided on the absolute rejection of the proposal at the Brussels Convention for Russia to increase her export quota. BALLET GIRLS ON STRIKE. (Received 18, 8.5 a.m.) Paris, January 17. A strike of the ballet in the middle ~f a performance at the Opera House necessitated the dispersal of the audience. The ballerini demanded that their wages be raised from £l2O to £l5O. AN ENTERPRISING COMPANY. (Received 18, 8.55 a.m.) London, January 17. A company with a capital of two and a half millions has been formed in England to acquire the patents of the Permutit system of softening and purifying water and the Luminator patents for preventing scale in pipes and boilers.

PLAGUE AT DURBAN. (Received 18, 9.10 a.m.) Capetown, January 17. There have been two cases of plague at Durban. One proved fatal. THE OSAKA CONFLAGRATION. ■ f (Received 18, 9.10 a.m.) Tokio, January 17. A recrudescence of the fire at Osaka was extinguished at midnight. The damage is estimated at £3,000,000, PARAGUAN REVOLUTION. " (Received 18, 9.10 a.m.) Asuncion, January 17. General Roja’s supporters are endeavouring to chock the revolution. There has been considerable street fighting, and numbers have been killed and injured. The insurgents arc still masters. LIEUTENANT FRENCH’S CASE. (Received 18, 9.10 a.m.) London, January 17. Letters received recently from French discount theories of suicide or a desire to escape. Ho did not complain of his treatment,, hut severely criticised Captain Lux for escaping when he perfectly understood that' lenient treatment was conditional on prisoners not attempting to escape. FEZ REBELS REPULSED.

(Received 18, 10.55 a.m.) Paris, January 17. The Fez rebels attacked Dalbeiz’s French column, but were repulsed by Bremond’s Moorish troops, leaviug many dead. The rebels were pursued and routed. The Franco-Moorish casualties were slight. FOUNDERS WITH ALL iaANM, (Received 18, 10.55 a.m.) Paris, January 17. The steamer Vanadis, from the Tyne for C'vita Yecchia, Italy, foundered with her crew of twenty-three, after leaving Ushant. A COUNTESS’ PERSONALTY. Received 18, 11.20 a.m.) London, January 17. s Caroline Countess of Seafield’s personalty is £210,094. EXTRAORDINARY LAWLESSNESS (Received 18, 12.25 p.m.) Vancouver, January 17. Hold-ups and robberies are so numerous in Vancouver that the Mayor has sworn in special constables and additional detectives. Prompt efforts are to bo made to exterminate the criminal element . Most of the criminals arrive from the United States. ‘

-A VICE-REGAL VISIT. (Received 18, 12.25 p.m.) New York, January 17. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught intend paying an informal visit to Mr Whitelay Reid.