GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 12, 6 September 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

THE ITALIAN' ARMY. (Received 6, 12.20 p.rn.) Rome, September o. It is officially announced that General Caneva retires, and will bo succeeded by Generals Ragni and Briecola, who have been appointed to separate, commands in Tripoli and Cyionaica respectively with a view to pushing operations in the interior.

SOLDIERS DROWNED OFF RAFT, The Hague, September C. . By the collapse of a raft at Utrecht, six soldiers were drowned. (

SUFFRAGETTES REJECTED London, September 5Mr, Lloyd George presided over tilt Eistedfodd at Wrexham, and addressed an assembly of 12,000. Then were numerous interruptions by suffragettes, which led to seven men ami women being ejected and roughly ban died in the process.

COMMERCIAL. (Received 0, 12.20 p.m.) London, September 5 Quotations: Silver 28-Jd. Waihi, 33s Del to 36s 3d. Waihi Junctions, 2ls 6d to 22s 6d

A HANDSOME BEQUEST. __ London, September 5

Mrs. Dupre Wilson, of Dublin, ha; bequeathed £4OOO to the National Un ion for Women’s Suffrage. THE OLYMPIC GAMES. London, September 5. The British. Olympic Council reports that the failure to obtain bettor result; at Stockholm was duo to lack of adequate opportunities for training, and unless large subscriptions are forthcoming, which will enable' them tc supply proper training, the Council must decline responsibility for tin team in 1916. THE FASTEST MOTOR YACHT. (Received 6, 1,5 }>.m.) New York, September 5. The British Motor Yacht Club won the Harmsworth trophy, with Maple Leaf 1., Baby 2, Reliance 3. Time. 47min 46soc. The owner claimed that Maple Leaf was the world’s fastest motor yacht.

RIOT OVER PROHIBITION MEET TNG.

At Minneapolis, Socialists caused riots in the streets. The police were summons!, and charged the rioters, scores being injured in the melee, and having been removed to hospital, seven arrests wore made. The police suffered heavily. The riot was the outcome of Prohibition-Socialist meetings iti the city streets.