SECOND EDITION. LATEST GENERAL CABLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 22, 24 January 1924, Page 6

SECOND EDITION. LATEST GENERAL CABLES

.... Reuter service. , (Received 12.30 p.m.) London, January 23. The Stock Exchange opened confidently, the disposition of the Cabinet appointments being viewed favr - durably. Gilt-edgbs stocks sold at a half per cent, above -yesterday's • closing prices. Consols are 55L War Lohns 99 5-S, Railway Stocks, a half to one per cent higher. Industrial Concerns also participated in the •; 'rise, . . * !

Paris. January 213. . „ M., Poincare has. tabled a Bill, authorising the prohibition Of the? ini--47 ‘/portion of foreign .goods not ooil- ' responding to the Natjonn.l necessSi tie??, with a view to the restoration , of France. Moscow, January 2‘l. ■The dgte of Lenin’s death ’nas been declared an 'annual day of ''mournitig,. All places of amusement have been ordered to be closed .ftir a .week. - i , (Sim Cables). Now York, January 2-3. j ‘ ”fho central railway granted a five per eent.-Jncrense in wages m fifteen - thousand engineers and firemen. Other lines are following suit. A treaty signed iby Mr Hughes and .Sir Eric Geddes provides for the right of search of a -rum-runner one hour’s steaming from American / ‘shores. _* ...... ‘ “sjfeibpttrne. January 24. P. W. McTlwine, one of the vic- ■■■ idiqs xnninj amri :^.tcOT^frtflS‘'’ , fte was aged sixty-five, and had only recently ?; ..^rriypd : from Ireland.

.Mabel Podlmry, aged thirty, was ! ' I employed at Hawthorn, \ . of the victims. ~ The first sound of the shots-in the

shooting waterfowl, hut when the man mailed about ehoutihg; “Some pv a’hud and"cry was rais,vod." and the garddhers,' 1 attendants Ij tire public'' rushed to the scene, 4 which presented a pitiable sight. One V man; ‘ feetiqiisiy wounded; lay prostrate on the , ground surrounded by horror-stricken children. ■ , A little further away a man ami ■r- a. woman were lying face down on -the grass, apparently dead. Another wftman, Who was knitting ? when attacked, lay dead with her work in her hands. Another was stretched, out on the ' ’fawn. The head gardener, St. John, said he was in the backyard when he , heard the shots. He guessed immediately ?sofflefh!Hg %l.s’^t l ßhg, rushed to the vicinity -whence the reports came. There he was con- , fronted with the spectacle described. A eonstahle approached; him, saying: “For God’s, sake get a gun. There’s a madman in the gardens.” St. John secured a gun and searched with his son all the shrubberies and undergrowth about the gardens till midnight, but failed to locate the lunatic, who is still at large. - - ” London, January 23. With, the exception of Mr Wheatley,"' who is probably a hostage for the-rgood bePaviotir of the Clyde extremists, the complexion of the new Ministry is decidedly moderate. Surprise is expressed at the non- - inclusion of women, but amends for this null probably be found in the list of Under-Secretaries. ‘Mr MacDonald’s - list necessitates at least-one new peerage in conformity with the law requiring that at least one Secretary, of State shall sit in the House of Lords. This will probably' be Mr Olivier. Excepting for a slight improvement, due to the organisation of men available, 1 the strike 'Situation is not ameliorated. Essential food and mail traffic' is maintained, but the passenger services ' throughout the country are dislocated, the oom- \ endeavouring to cope with the Situation in South Wales, where the coal export trade is practically at a- standstill. The managers agreed to meet the Iqcomofive-drivers today. „.

t' A•; sub committee of. the League of Nations concluded its work as regards the iinancial reconstruction of Hungary by unanimously accepting the loan proposals. This will be forwarded to the, Reparations Commission for approval. The loap will be 250 millions Of gold crowns, to be used within two and %half yeai’P, and repayable in twenty years, during which time the treaty pharges will bo limited.. The League will point a nou-Allied general as eontrpllor of certain ', seCdritjes upon which the impactions' dommission will .liens,.to ibe.pledged for the swvtfoe of the loan. The terms of the protocol which was drawn up regardiiig',||ie: conditions of the loaii provide that there shall be vno ppli|ic&l ssturbaiv»ai between Hungary and btßer nations. The |tnhew flie Gorman seamen has extended." to ifiddleehorough. , Three vessels,; are now idle. The strips reviving pay from Un--1 ay iltfifce position is' eas- . ier -Li foutipn. A' fair mimbor of '■ trains are running, but a further

number of Welsh colliers were thrown idle. .-Rie defections among the ranks of the National Union of

railMaynten are increasing. <; 3lr Thomas has resigned the* poli* I tical secretaryship of the Washington, Jahuary 02. ahd t#d ; radio' !<, ■'ope?«toro‘ a -- : «n the 1 cruder 'tacoma, , which was wrerttod near Vei n Oruz,