GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 57, 7 November 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright J Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. (Received S a.in)

London, November 6

Mr Gwynne, in the .Horning Post, has been lecturing the Royal United Service. The institution of the press in war, he said, was necessary, but the press subordinated itself to national emergencies. He suggested that a committee, of eminent journalists should co-operate with the authorities, .having office, "while the Admiralty or War Office should prepare a daily account. It would be unlikely to give the enemy information and at the same -time be reassuring to the public if unable to give news.

Major Stewart Murray said bo believed that in a great war drastic measures for repressing news will be necessary. The Times, in condemning Lord Haldane’s suggested changes in the judicial committee, says: Never probably in modern times was the committee stronger than it is to-day. It rarely commanded greater confidence. It is the general opinion of lawyers, including those in the colonies, that, generally, the character of the judgments had improved, showing clear recognition of the duties of a final court, A decision given in England was likely to be more generally accepted than in a place where ;controversy has long raged. Most persons had taken sides. Paris, November 6. A monument to Oscar Wilde lias been erected at Pere la Chaise ceme-, tery, in defiance of the authorities. !

New York, November 6

Major Mitchell is only 31 years of age, and is the youngest Mayor the city has known. He is a grandson of John Mitchell, the famous Irish patriot.

London, November 6. In connection with the opening of the dungeons beneath the White Tower and the Bloody Tower (in the latter of which Guy Fawkes was at first incarcerated), in a narrow dark recess between two dungeons, the workmen found a rack, thumb-screws, temple bands, and searing irons, still hanging on the wall. A few yards away is the

dungeon where Raleigh spent ten years overlooking the spot where at this time the equestrian statue of Queen Elizabeth stands, wearing the robe in which she went to St. Paul’s to celebrate the defeat of the Armada. Tradition says that once a band af s'even hundred seeking refuge from a London mob spent long days and nights huddled in . the 1 dungeons oly.the Bloody Tower in the days pf Edward HT. It is her lieved ,; the . tower was also the scene bf the murders of; Edward V,, the Dpke of Y<jr.k, and Henry \ Tjv. i [UNITED PRESS ASSObjATTON.] . 9.55- i||n .y i | j \I Ngremß'fer 7j||j The New'South Wales' 1 ‘Government has declined ' to sanction the attendance of its health officer at a conference iff Melbourne to discuss tlfe ? lifting of the smallpox embargo on the ground that the Federal Government imposed, and. must accent the restion, which was issued by,a dis&lviflg; ■PUrhmndnt‘J'l,; J 6 lOl(Received 8.,15 a.m.) || S?’ hill W ? ! Loffdbhy* NdvembeH It is reported that the London. Stock Exchange committee ha§- decided to suspend for five years a number of Wemi)'ere ! m connection with the American-Marconis scandal. f ’ Forty ‘- prominent Anglo-Canadians, liave petitioned Mr Borden against the Westminster site of the Dominion offices. Aldwyoh, they maintain, is far more convenient and effective for advertising.