General Cables.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 25, 21 May 1914, Page 5

General Cables.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS GREAT SHIPPING LOCK-OUT. >* Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Pbebb Association.! Rome, May 20. The lock-out by the Federated Free Shipowners has rendered- 140 ships idle. The newspaper Stampa states that the shipowners have offered the Federation of Seamen one hundred and fifty ships to run on a co-operative basis. A SPY SENTENCED. Berlin, May 20. Dobinsky, a non-commissioned officer in the 3rd Cuirassiers, was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude for espionage, and fined £ISOO. A SLICE OF LUCK. London, May 20. John Rhodes, a Bradford warehouseman, earning 30s weekly, has inherited £170,000 from an uncle, a Pontefract colliery owner. GUN-MAKERS' WAR-TAX. Berlin, May 20. The Krupp family is paying £430,000 in war levy, whereof Bertha Krupp's husband pays £345,000. A MILLIONAIRE MAGNATE. Washington, May 20. The Inter-state Commerce Commission, in investigating the affairs of the New York-Newhaven-Hartford railway, learned that Pierpont Morgan spent millions in acquiring subsidiary properties. Other financial magnates associated with him looked on, awed. Mr Mellen, ex-president of the railroad, declared that Morgan treated him like a child, and he was too awed to question anything Morgan did. Morgan consulted Mr Roosevelt about some purchases, and Roosevelt warned Morgan that he must keep inside the law, whatever else he did. ROOSEVELT AND THE PRESIDENCY. ' I, ' *;f* *' • j New. York; May 20. ; Mr Roosevelt denies the statement ' that he intends to run as a Presidencandidate on the Progressive ticket. He laughed when informed of Mr. Savage Landor's criticisms- and declared he was absolutely certain in his own mind that he had discovered a new river. HOUSING THE WORKERS. London, May 19. At the Health Conference, the Hon. Thos. Mackenzie gave an address on the workers' homes system in New Zealand, detailing the scope and purpose of recent legislation. ■ \ Mr H. Samuel, outlinmg the Govvernment's policy, said town-planning must be made obligatory on municipal authorities. One hundred and ninety-one local authorities in Great Britain had already submitted plans of housing reforms providing for fifteen millions of people when they are carried out.

The conference included 170 overseas delegates. BOY SSOUTS BANNED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Paris, May 20. The Bishop of Bayonne has banned Boy Scouts, considering them a Protestant inspiration, encouraged by the Free Masons with the object of "ruining the Catholic young men's societies.