GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 23, 20 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PRINTER BOYS' STRIKE

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association. ) (Received 10.15 a.m.) London, September 19. On© hundred, and thirty boys in the bank-note printing department of the Bank of England struck as a protest against levying fines for petty offences, including talking. The police dispersed the demonstration , outside the Bank. RAID ON A FARO HOUSE, , A faro house in Sherwood Street, St. James, was raided and sixty-two person® arrested. One of the principals was fined £IOO and another £SO. fhe rest Avere bound over to keep tho peace. LAWLESSNESS. Sandy Row hooligans threw volleys of stones through the,windows, wrecked Italian ice-cream shops and looted grocery and spirit stores. Unionist Club men assisted the police to restore order.

In another place mill girls had several scrummages, catching hold of each other by the hair and fighting violently until the constabulary intervened, i LONDON'S UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS. The underground railways in London since their electrification have carried 929,000,000 passengers; the train mileage covered was 41,000,000 mile s; 2,400,000 movements of signals were made; and there was not a single fatality. ,

AVIATION. The airship Gammai dropped fireballs in Cambridge, including some in the quadrangle of Trinity College wheTO the King is staying. London, September 19. Critics attribute the premature end of the manoeuvres to perfection of aerial scouting, and the efficiency of wireless and aeroplanes nullifying tactical movements.

MADMAN'S HORRIBLE ACT,

Berlin, September 19

Hcnrich Tolle, a workman under observation in Gottingen Prison, bit open an artery in his left hand, bit off pieces of his upper arm, ana tore flesh off his breast. He was removed to hospital in a desperate condition. FEDERATION OP EMPIRE. London, September 19. The Globe approves of the suggestion that New Zealand should be represented on the Imperial Defence Committee through the Minister of Internal Affairs, and says it will be an appreciable step towards Federation of the Empire. New Zealand's proposal may well solve on© of the difficulties of the problem. A VICTIM OF THE X-RAYS. Paris, September 19.

Mademoiselle Weidmann, assistant in the laboratory of the Saltpetriere HospitsO, who is a victim of the Xrays experiments, had both arms amputated and it is feared she is dying. She has received the Government's medal of honour.