Second Edition. GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. GENERAL CABLES.

CAPETOWN'S SHIPPING FACILITIES. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables. i London, February 28. Nicholson v the harbor engineer, giving evidence before the Dominions Commission, said that in two years Capetown .would be able to accommodate, 750 ft. vessels, of thirtyeight feet draught. This is important in view of diverting the Australian mail service to the Cape route.

A SLEEPY POLICE GUARD.

Bombay, February 28

Authentic news regarding tarring the-faces of the statues of the Royal Family at Kolhapur shows that the police guard was. asleep on the night of the outrage.

OUTRAGE BY NATIVE MINER.

i ({Uneted Press Association, j

Johannesburg, February 28. A native miner has been remanded on a charge of attempting to murder a white miner, while asleep, by means of a cartridge placed under the bed. The room was wrecked and complainant injured.

SNAKE EXPERT FATALLY BITTEN

Calcutta, February 28

Professor Fox, an Australian snake expert, whilst demonstrating in the zoo with a snake-bite antidote, was accidentally bitten and died, His experiments on animals were eminently successful.

? STATUE'SMEARING.

(Received 8.40 a.m.) Bombay, March 1

| The.statue of King Edward, Queen Alexandra, King George, and Queen Mary at Jepapore, was smeared with tar. There is no clue to the culprits.

" THE REOL SCANDAL.

(Received 8.40 a.m.) Vienna, March 1

Cedomyl, who ,was concerned in the Redl scandal, also received nineteen years' imprisonment. Mother Alexander was sentenced to five years and three months.

FRENCH POLITICS.

Paris, February 28

The Chamber, by 329 votes to 214, approved the Government's fiscal reform policy, notably to relieve land from taxation.

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.

Berlin, February 28

Frau.Hamm, after serving five and a-half years. towards the fourteen years' sentence of penal servitude for killing her. husband at Flan'dersbach, Rhineland, has been released and allowed a re-trial.

Two farm hands who were in doceased's employ have heen arrested.

The woman's conviction is attributed to detectives' overzeal.

PORTUGUESE RIOTS.

Madrid, February 28

Travellers in Portugal report that ' the strikers are abundantly supplied .' with gold, and that all the telegraph and telephone wires are cut. President Arrigaga threatens to dissolve the Federation of Syndicalists' if it persists in the attempt to transform the railway strike into a general strike. Some of the railwaymen have resumed, and the majority condemn the outrages.

TROUBLE IN PERSIA.

Teheran, February 28

'The gendarmerie at Kergeran and Berger made a concerted attack on a fortified house at Nasredwan, suspected of disloyalty. Major Ohlson, commander, was killed while attempting to lay a mine to the gateway. The gendarmerie were compelled to retire and fortify their barracks. Madame Ohlson is among the besieged. Relief forces are marching from Bushire. \

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

Pekin, February 28

Ex-Premier Chao-Ping-Shan, Yuan-Shih-Kai's right hand man,' died suddenly!. Poison is suspected.

SON MURDERS' HIS PARENTS,

Paris, February 28. Andre MartinJ aged 17 years, the son carpenter living at a village near Epermany, has confessed to killing his father and mother in their sleep the night after Christmas. He stole i £3O, and caroused with companions in the room beneath that where the bodies lay until his new mode of life aroused the Mayor's suspicions, and his arrest followed.

K SCULPTORS AT VARIANCE.

London, February 28.

The proposal of Mr Thomas Welsh, a millionaire coal-owner, to provide the Cardiff City Hall with statues of ten historic Welshmen, led to a squabble with the Society of Sculptors, culminating in the resignation of Mr Frampton, the president, and the Council; including Mr MacKennal.

A. meeting of the Society condemned the Council's abandonment of the suggestion to make the work competitive, and resented the selection of Mr Havard Thomas, a member of the Council, to advise the donor with regard to the placing of the commission. Stormy scenes ensued, and the Council walked out.