GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 86, 10 April 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

London, April 9. It was a cold and dry Easter, but owing to the dislocation of the train services the majority of Londoners stayed in town. There were severe gales in the north, and children were killed by falling walls at Manchester and Glasgow. •t- Paris, April 9. At a concert given by the Women's Patriotic League at Londian a lamp fell. The blazing oil was readily extinguished, but there was a wild stampede of women and children. The narrow stairway was choked, and it was half an hour before it was cleared. It was then found that seven had been trampled to death, and fifteen terribly injured. isew York, April 9.

The crisis has been readied in the flood, and if the dykes hold for another day the danger is past. The total losses are already two millions sterling, and thirty thousand people are homeless and living in tents. Army supplies are arriving.' Constantinople, April 9.

Juanoviteh, a former Montenegrin Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment in October, 1907, for treason, and was incarcerated in the fortress of Podgoritza, with his feet enchained, escaped with other conspirators by digging a subterranean passage which took eight montbrs to complete. They disposed of the earth down a drain. Juanoviteh lias reached ' Constantinople. A wave of reaction is now affecting the women, and those appearing in public without veils and having adopted dress reform on European lines, are thrashed and insulted. Decrees have been passed subjecting women to fines and imprisonment fc entering European shops unaccompanied. Capetown, April 9. The Unionists will discuss Mr Jameson's resignation on Wednesday. It is expected that they will elect Mr .Smart as loader. Mr Jameson sails for England immediately. He retains the Grahamstown seat. (Received 10 ,10.15 a.m.) Cairo. April 9. An excursion steamer with three hundred persons aboard collided with another steamer. The latter saved many of the excursion steamer's passengers ( but many were drowned. Seventeen Vbodies have already been recovered. XThe city has been plunged in mourning. (Received 10, 10.15 a.m.) i New York, April 9. Mr Roosevelt is fighting hard to secure the nomination of the Illinois primaries. He declares that if he is defeated on this occasion he will again contest the Presidency. Mr Roosevelt further declared that Canadian reciprocity would not be an issue ever again if he wins. The steamer Ontario, belonging to the Merchants' Transportation Co., is in flames off New York harbour. The passengers were rescued. The steamer's crew are fighting the flames but with little success. ' The cargo of cotton has been jettisoned. The captain ran the vessel ashore when the fire started. Reports from Memphis, Mississippi, state that the flood danger is passing •and that the river is falling.