GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 18, 18 May 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, May I (J. The Premier stated that they might assume while the Irish Disestablishment Act was not repealed that il was not contrary to the laws of morality ami honesty to deal similarly with Wales. Mr Cave, in reply, said that because Parliament was once unjust tli-ai was no reason to repeal injustice. The Premier declined to facilitate Mr Griffiths Boscawen's Welsh Religious Census Hill. Following upon the reorganisation of the Admiralty methods Prince Louis of Batenburg commands a fleet in tin July manoeuvres. The Times commends Mr Churchill's determination to keep the Sea Lords in touch with the service afloat. The lire on the steamer Malta Ih-as been extinguished. Mr Asquitlr, in the House of Commons, indicated that tOie financial concessions in the Welsh Disestablishment Hill would be introduced in committee. The .Manchester Guardian says that there is much uneasiness amongst Liberals regarding disondowment and secularisation. Hardly one outside the Welsh members has not a strong tie-

sire for substantia] alterations. Silver L'S'.d. Wai'iii shares 35s to 3/s Gd, Junction 22s (mI to 23s 9d, Talisman 42s (Id o .15s. Bottomley has resigned his seat in the House of ('ominous. The Premier announced that a session will he held in the autumn. Sir R. Homer has awarded the Durham hewers a minimum of 5s (id, boys!

under 10 2s. Speaking at the Shipwrights Company's banquet, Mr Winston Churchill Bnid that his duty was to again ask Parliament for men, money 'and ,inaterials. It' the additional estimates were not so large as he Imped, or others feared, the Government 'hoped to convince Parliament that what they asked for was necessary and sufficient. It was essential that the fleet should be concentrated in the decisive theatre of European waters, thus creating a new want and affording a new opi>ortunity for the overseas Dominions. "We could, if need arose," he said, "despatch a strong squadron to aid the Dominions when menaced or attacked, but the main development for the next decade must bo the growth of an effective overseas naval force. We would t'lien be able to make a true division of labour—the Motherland to maintain supremacy at the decisive point, while the daughter States would guard and patrol the rest of the i Empire."

Capetown, May 16

The plague lias been stamped out at Durbar. The census of the Union shows a population of 5,973,391, including 4,697,102 natives and coloured people. Obituary: Mr Scanlen, ex-Premier of Cape Colony.

Madrid, May 1G

Acting on Hamburg Socialists' information the authorities at Cbruna seized twenty-one bales alleged to contain German paper addressed to a Catholic resident. Tiic hales were found to contain two hundred rifles and 26G8 packets of cartridges intended lor Portuguese Monarchists. El Mi/i/iian, a leading Riffian chief, was killed in a fight at Melilla. ■ Paris, May l<>.

Thieves damaged several columns and the tabernacle in the cathedral at Die. They also set it on fire. Two .hundred seats were badly burned as also were the eleventh century porch, the high altar and the organ. When the bandits realised that the game was up they burnt ten thousand Cranes' worth of bank notes, fragments of which have been recovered. The doctors and the police agree that Gartner committed suicide.

New York, May 1G

The Oceanic reports that one of the bodies found in the boat was that of a fireman chained by the leg to the thwart at one end of the boat. Two men were huddled at the other end each with a cork in his mouth. The Oceanic's doctor believes that the men chewed corks in their delirium to ease the cravings of hunger and thirst. .Another breach of the Mississippi levees in the vicinity of New Orleans deluged ten square miles of country. Sixty thousand people are homeless. No lives were lost. The damage is enormous. Emma Goldman, a woman anarchist, was compelled to leave San Diego after a crowd had tarred and feathered her manager, Ben Rutmann, and branded the letters "1.W.W.," indicating Industrial Workers of the World, on his skin. Vigilaats escorted Goldman to the depot, and compelled Iter to depart by the first train. Vienna, May 16. The newspapers express scorn and regret at the Kaiser's threat to rescind the Alsatian constitution. "Dcr Zoit" says that what is permissible to an individual with his list on a beerhouse table is not permissible to a monarch. Berlin, .May 1(1. Sir Geo. Reid, in the course of his address, said that if other nations consented to disarm, Britain would be the first to scrap her Dreadnoughts and disband her army. An AngloGerman coalition based on peace would be a good filing for the whole world. Ottawa, May Hi. The elections in, Quebec province resulted in the victory of the Cumin Government. The Liberals gain seven seats. All the Ministers were returned. The issues were chiefly of a provincial character.

Mr Orahaw, Minister of Railways for Quebec, has been offered tlio jncsidenoy of the Grand Trunk Railway, in succession to Mr Hays, who was drowned on the Titanic