GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 80, 1 April 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Oopyrigit.) (United Press Association.) Malta, March 29. Thirty emigrants have sailed for Australia. London, March 29. The Times' Washington correspondent states that Lloosovelt is exasperated by a number of State Conventions declaring overwhelmingly against him. \'ie says that he is lighting against "'he representatives oi the powers of'pillagd, and hiiitcd tnat if defeated by tl'e convention he might head a new party. Houlders the reported amalgamation will, 'lik Furnese Co. Three, burglars U$':JP. been arrested in Paris for attempting to steal the areas of a rifle club. They include the anarchist Randonnctt, already convicted of the theft of a motor car. Ti)3 Admiralty fas placed orders for six'teen destroyers out of twenty included in the 1912-13 programme. Bernard Espinasse, a member of the staff of Peaiison's Weekly, has been sentenced to savfin month;,' imprisonment for conspiring with Samuel [Jllm.aa and Fditk Ulhrnn to fr.u duk'titly win prizes in newspaper competitions. Samuel Ullman and Edith Ullman were sentenced to four and two months' imprisonment respectively London, March 29. Hatter states that Germany has roapproached Canada with a view to a, reciprocity arrangement. Mr T. M. Wilford sails for New Zealand in April. His health is restored. Paris, March 29. A violent earthquake has been experienced in tiie Department cf Corrtnae. A fissure five yards wide opened in the hillside overlooking the \iilige of St. Solve. The railway station was strewn with rocks and furniture was overturned in the houses, and the occupants spent the night cut of doers, despite drenching rain. Constantinople, March 29. Kopassas Effendi's assassin died of 1 is Wounds. He confessed that he was itched from Athens by Sophonli's party, who threatened Kopassas' dca'tu if lie refused an amnesty to the Samos refugees. Tokio, March 29. A French-Japanese bank is being founded with a view to encouraging t:-e introduction of French capital. The Japanese bankers found that they were unable to take a full Sihare of the Chinese loan without external ass : stance.