GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

PENNY-A-WORD TELEGRAMS. pT Eliotbio Telegraph— Copyright [United Press Asbcoiation.] (Received 8.15 a.m.) Paris, March 3. The British Chamber of Commerce banquetted Sir Henniker Heaton, who. urged penny-a-word telegrams to Europe as a preliminary to its extension to the whole world. EDITORS IN TROUBLE. Berlin, March 3.

Two editors named Weltam and Montag were summoned for insulting the Crown Prince, whom they dubbed with'the name "William the Last," and severely criticised his Zabern telegrams. They declared that ho was a thorough agitator for a German republic. GERMAN NAVAL CAMPAIGN. Berlin, March 3. Von Koester, president of the Navy League, in a speech at Oldenburg, forecasted a fresh campaign for more ships. THE TOBACCO TRUST. Berlin, March 3. Many thousands demonstrated at the Bremen bourse as a protest against the British-American Tobacco Trust as a serious danger to the German Industry. THE CZAR AND ALCOHOL. St. Petersburg, March 3. The Czar, in pursuance of his antialcohol policy, abrogated the custom whereby Czars drank the health of the troops after reviews on parade. CAPSIZE OF A BARQUE. (Received 9.20 a.m.) ' London, March 3.

The barque Tasman, en route from the. Baltic to Melbourne, capsized in the North Sea. Several of the crew are missing. A MINE FLOODED. (Received 11.35 a.m.) ... , A .. . Brussels, March 3. While 350 men were working at the Strepy mine it became flooded and nine were killed. The remainer escaped. GIRL CLUBBED TO DEATH. New York, March 3. A photograph of the eye of a girl who had been clubbed to death has been taken to St. Nicholas' Cemetery, Chicago, by tho police authorities, with the, object of gaining a clue as to the murderer.; A foreigner named Petras has been accused of the crime. The motive is, believed to be jealousy. ' Oculists assert that the retina of the eye will probabvy show the person who cimmitted the crime if he was. visible to the girl before she became unconscious.