GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 86, 6 December 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

THE ANTI-JESUITS

Vienna, December 5

In the Reichstag Herr von Bctli-mann-Hollweg, the German Chancellor, said that the decision of the Federal Council merely involved the codification of a long-prevailing practice with regard to the Jesuits. If the Centre withdrew its confidence they would simply make anti-Jesuit laws the keystone of a political programme, flip antipathy of the Protestants towards the Jesuit Order was justified by the hatters’ past. St. Petersburg, December 5.

The ‘Novoe Yremya,’ commenting on this pronouncement, says that such an intimidation frightens nobody, but prudence demands the immediate withdrawal of vast Russian deposits from German banks.

FORGERS SENTENCED

London, December 4

Bourke, a music hall artist, and Powys, a financier, have been sentenced to seven and six years’ imprison ment respectively, on charges of having attempted to obtain £1750 al Cox’s Bank by forging Lord Heberts’ signature. Hundreds of opened letters, which had been extracted from letter-boxes by the aid of bird-lime, were found in their room, many of them addressed to residents in the colonies. Lord Roberts gave evidence that the forged signature was an admirable imitation.

COMPLIMENTED ON A MISTAKE. Paris, December 4. M. Biion, brigadier of gendarmerie at Nancy, who, owing to the misreading of a telegram, gave the order for mobilisation, has been complimented on his promptitude. THE NEW QUAY MYSTERY. London, December 5. The ‘Daily Express’ says that Mrs. Delay is living apart from her husband, and declines to discuss the tragedy.

SAWDUST SUGAR. London, December 5. Mr. Forward, in a paper read before the Royal Society, described the remarkable transmutation of sawdust into sugar by means of weak sulphurous acid under pressure, affording valuable feeding stuff for horses, cattle, and sheep. AUSTRALIAN IMMIG RATION. London, December 5. The East End Immigrant Fund report states that in spite of high rates, Australia is gradually ousting Canada as an immigration field. BRITISH POSTAL FIGURES. London, December 5. The Post Office report for 1911 shows an increase of 33 per cent, for letters from Australia, due to the penny postage.