SUN GABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1, 2 September 1913, Page 5

SUN GABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN MEWS THE COLOR LINE. I j [By Electric Telegrach—Copyright] | Hues—Sydney Sun Special Cadges. (Received 8 a.m.) ; London, September 1. i Maxime Eliott, wiio is about to appear in the play “Joseph and His Brethren,” refuses to be carried off iby two big negroes, and whites have j been blackened to act as substitutes. JACK JOHNSON. i i Johnson states that he has signed [contracts to appear at Gravesend adn Hull, this week. i 1 j PERNICIOUS NOVELS. | Canon Xewbolt, preaching at St. I Paul’s on pernicious novels, said: “Unless respectable people loved sin, I how is it possible that there is such a i large output of work which is an out- | rage on modesty and distinctly injurious to readers?” , v “ALL-FOR-! RELAND. Mr O’Brien, M.P., addressing the All-for-Treland League, said the movement for national peace conciliation i was a most priceless work for Ireland. If a small inter-party conference, presided over by a representative man, met, he would stake hie life they would not separate until they had outlined a settlement which would prove an everlasting blessing. THE PALACE OF PEACE. Paris, September 1. The press is not optimistic over the opening of the Palace pf Peace. They consider that it may prove a Pandora’s box, in which, after all the evils afflicting humanity are let loose, there will remain only the I blessing -of hope. / v ARRESTED FOR ESPIONAGE. Sergeant Guino has been arrested for espionage, . Correspondence was found in bis lodgings showing that be sent officers of the Austrian and German armies most important documents an’d photographs of the most recent French artillery. Guino is a qualified engineer, and is well educated, speaking several languages.} His arrest was the result of his close friendship with a private in his'regiment who deserted after the disap-, pearance of some gun parts. Amongst other secrets allegedly offered, if not sold, to foreign Governments, was a new range finder. THE AMERICA CUP. New York, September 1. Hie Yacht Club has announced that the conditions of the America Cup are. not materially different to those ■>f previous contests. BROWN’S 22-MILE SWIM. New York, September 1. Captain Brown, at his fifth attempt, swam the New York Bay from the Battery to Sandy Hook, a distance of 22 miles, despite an unfavourable wind and tide, in 13 hours 38min. A BURGLAR BEFOGGED. London, September 1. A burglar in a thick fog broke a jeweller’s window in Bond street and stole a set of imitation pearls, apparently of the value of £ISOO. A PORTUGUESE AMNESTY. Lisbon,. September 1. The Government will pardon all political prisoners on October 5, the anniversary of the establishment of ho Republic.

GIPSIES IN TROUBLE.

Paris, September 1. The encampment of gipsies at Mont>elier caused disturbances. They )pened fire on a body of gendarmes* vho were ordered to expel them. One gendarme was killed and four wounled. During a wild fight across conn:ry the gipsies abandoned twenty ■arts. One hundred and fifteen gip:ie« have been arrested.