GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 50, 20 June 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

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Times and Sydney Sun Services. Calcutta, Juno 19. There is an epidemic of suicide among girls following the self-immo-lation of one who saturated her clothing with kerosene because her father was about to mortgage his property to purchase a husband for her. Graduated husbands cost £7OO. . St. Petersburg, Juno 19. Sekorsky’s aerial Dreadnought broke a record, ascending 2000 metres with ten passengers in eighty-six minutes. During the night she made a trip of 393 minutes, carrying six passengers. London, June 19. The dislocation of shipping trade owing to the strike of engineerrs is beginning to be felt at many British ports. The great ocean liners are not affected, but tho carrying trade will lio seriously interfered with if no agreement is reached with the strike committee. The engineers are refusing to sign articles all over tho Kingdom, and vessels are delayed at the ports. Owners are determined not to concede higher rates, because the freights forbid it. [United Prebb Association.! Paris, June 19. The Olympic Council adopted tho British proopsal to include Association football, but objected to the French proposal to introduce Rugby. They agreed to introduce! boxing. Vancouver, June 18.

The Japanese cruisers Asama and Azuma have arrived. It is anticipated that prompt action will he taken regarding the Hindus, who are displaying an ugly temper. It is probable that a guard from the cruisers will be placed aboard the Komagata Maru on her return trip. In response to an emphatic cable from the owner, the steamer is being provisioned for the homeward voyage. London, June 19. The Perth-luverness train was derailed at a lonely spot at Can-bridge when crossing an embankment underminded by heavy rains. The engine and a passenger coach fell into the swollen stream. Three were drowned and twenty injured. There were exciting episodes. The floods swept away some of the passengers, who were rescued with difficulty. It is feared there may be a dozen dead in the submerged coach. London, June 19. The fire at Glasgow caused damage to the extent of a quarter of a million and was due to an accident in re-piling the dock with piles saturated with creosote oil. Boring one with a red-hot iron caused ignition, and the whole of the southern quay, a quarter of a mile long, was ablaze within ten minutes. Of the ten vessels imperilled six escaped from the danger zone. Several firemen and the harbor workers swung hoses aboard the small ferry boat, and, steaming into the blazing dock, poured water on the piles. The four walls around them were afire to the water’s edge. The quays crumbled away as the flames ate away the supports, and the roofs of the sheds collapsed. The heavy cranes toppled into the water. The fire was ultimately circumvented.