GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 25, 23 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A, CROWD AND SUFFRAGETTES

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) j (Rece'ved 9.5 a.m.) London, .September 22.

Wild scenes followed Mr LloydGeorge receiving the freedom of Davy Stymdwy. The crowd .attacked interrupting suffragettes, tore their clothes, pulled out their hair and trampled it on the ground, and flung one over a hedge. To restore order, Mr Lloyd-George jumped on to the table and' led in the singing of the Welsh National Anthem.

MOTOR CYCLE RECORD

New York, September 22

Lockner Shillds, Syracuse motor cyclist, won the 21-hour team race, completing 1374 miles in two laps, a world's record.

AN AUSTRALIAN'S ADVENTURE

London, Sept-ember 22

Josephine Thompson, aged 21, has been arrested for robbing Henry Edgar Depiere, an Australian farmer, of £175 in bank notes in a London street. THE INSURANCE ACT. London, September 22. Mr William O'Brien, at Cork, said the Insurance Act. was- steadily wrecking the Liberal Party and Home Rule •with it. The Redmondites now realised that their policy was only doubling Ireland's taxation for five years. A SUFFERING SUFFRAGETTE. Mrs Leigh, the imprisoned suffragette, now weighs under six stone. THE MOB ATLONDONDERRY.

Nationalists attacked the procession which was escorting Sir Edward Carson towards Londonderry station. The police dispersed the mob which threw a volley of stones, injuring two policemen and four bandsmen.

MAN-CATCHER FOR MOTOR CARS

Successful experiments havo been made at Brooklands with a German invention of a man-catcher on motor cars to prevent injury to pedestrians. INSULTING MR." CHURCHILL. A suffragette evaded the police at Balmoral golf links' and threw a large worm in Mr Churchill's face. BOMB IN A MOSQUE. Constantinople, September 22. A bomb exploded in the mosque at Akchitschelebi, and it is reported 50 were killed. PIRACY IN THE EAST.

Pekin, September 22. | The Governments of Canton and Macao have agreed to co-operate in the extermination of piracy. A large Portuguese detachment has been sent to surround an island near Colowan which is reported to bo a piratical

WOMAN RELEASED ON DEATHBED CONFESSION.

New York, September 22

At Huntingdon, Indiana, Mrs John Epps, who has served 23 years on a charge of murdering her husband, has been vindicated. Henry Epps, en hia deathbed, stated that he poisoned his brother. A NEWSBOY HERO. At Gary, Indiana, William Rugh, newsboy, permitted the amputation of bis crippled leg for skin grafting on Miss Ethel Smith, a girl whom he had never oven seen. The doctor® said she would not recover from burns without skin to cover the wounds. Teheran, September 22. Salar-cd-Dowleh has evacuated Kermanshah, which Government troops have occupied. [Kermans'hah is a fortified town of Persia 280 miles south-west of Teheran. It is surrounded with an earthen wall with five gates.] (Received 9.5 a.m.) Athens, September 22.

Three hundred and fifty .Cretans, eluding the cruisers Medea and Bruix, landed at Samos and are marching on Vathy, hoping to overthrow the British garrison and proclaim a union with Greece.