SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 73, 31 July 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ■ By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] l »vjj.ney fc>ux Special Cable.J London, <) uly 30. The British Motor Cab Company is absorbing general and new companies, and will control four thousand, out of seven thousand, taxis in London. Amundsen is taking Hying lessons. Two water-planes will accompany his 1914 Arctic expedition. (Received 9.55 p.m.) Negotiations between the European makers and the quinine growers of java are expected to double the present price.

Lord Rosebery, in an address to the Grammar School at Guilford, stated that manners at the present day were decaying, both in Britain and on the Continent.

The report of the House of Commons Committee to increase the Navy estimates states that the Admiralty expenditure had increased fifty per cent, during-the last decade, and draws attention to evidence of armorplating and gun-mounting being handled by commercial rings. The latest figures show a continued decrease in pauperism in London.

The Chamber of Commerce in Bradford passed a resolution urging shipping companies to build more sailers and carry Australian and New Zealand wool.

The action of railway companies in declining to bo warehousemen has seriously disorganised trade. The distribution of clips over a longer period was more desirable than the quick arrival of steamers.

Calcutta, July 30

Meetings of Moslems have adopted resolutions that they view with the deepest disappointment and resentment the attempt of Britain to force the Turks to leave Adrianople. The Hindu nationalists are supporting the Moslems.

Paris, July 30

The Figaro states that it is possible the Russo-Roumanian relations will lie further strengthened by the probable marriage of Prince Charles to the Duchess Olga. Experiments in Hertzian waves at Toulon proved a speed of 295,000 kilometres per second, which is almost the speed of light.

Rome, July 30

Thieves at Nice tunnelled a avail., using a blowpipe, and abstracted jewellery value at £BOOO from a jeweller’s shfe.

New York. July 30

The Herald is convinced that the Davis Cup has come to stay, because the American players belong to a. younger generation and are making wonderful progress in the science of the game.