SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 62, 18 July 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

KOMc AMD FOftEiGM NEWS

WESTMINSTER HALL

[ isy Electric Telegraph—Coptrisht] [Sydney Sun Special Cable.]

London, July 17

A letter to the limes, referring to the decaj of the roof of Westminster Hall, states that the destructive stress to which ancient buildings are at present subjected is the outcome of the sulphur-charged atmosphere of manufacturing districts.

THE STOLEN NECKLACE

(Received 7.52 p.m.) London, July 17

The necklace stolen between Paris and Hatton Gardens was registered at Paris on Tuesday. The parcel was addressed to Max Mayon, an Australian authority on pearls, and contained 01 pearls. They were insured. It is assumed that the theft was perpetrated in France. , NON-MILITANTS ATTACKED. The members of a non-militant suffragists' pilgrimage, while en route from Land's End, were mobbed and stoned at Bath. STRIKERS AND THE POLICE.

The police at Leith, on the Firth of Forth, when escorting a train from the docks to the Caledonia station, were stoned by 2000 strikers. Three police were injured in endeavouring to disperse the strikers with batons. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. M. Barthou (Minister of Public Instruction) is of the opinion that the construction of the English Channel tunnel is becoming more probable, as English objectors are disappearing in view of the many probable advan-. tages.

FELL OVER A PRECIPICE. At Brunn station Mr Modarie, his wife, and three children who were on an excursion to the Alps were in a carriage which overturned /on the edge of a precipice and fell two hundred feet. All were killed excepting the wife, who caught hold, of a tree.

PRINCE RENOUNCES HIS TITLE

Berlin, July 17

Prince ; Nicholas, of Thurn and Taxte, J has renounced his title and assumed that of Baron Hochstadt. PRINCE'S NARROW ESCAPE.

While loading a regiment across the railway at Rathenow, Prince Ernest of Cumberland narrowly "escaped ing run over by an express' train.

rXDESIRABLE POPULATION

Washington,, July 17

A Bill is l>eing introduced into the Senate barring the immigration of more than ten per cent, of the number already in America of any one nationality, the object being to curtail the number of undesirables.