GENERAL CABLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 89, 13 June 1925, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

Madrid, June [lVeenstra and Lieutenant Quersin, winners of the Gordon, Bennett balloon race, had an exciting adventure, ■landing in the sea at night ten miles from the Spanish coast. They were picked lip by a steamer in an exhausted eonaition alter drifting for six hours. London, June 11. Sympathising with a mother of seven young children, who was in arrears with rent, Mr Justice Chicr SitifJ: *'l .'Mil sorry you were not taught not to iia've children. it is ruining you and it iS ruining the country. Even bishops are now agreeing that it is unwise." London, June 12. The Athens correspondent of the Daily Telegraph strife's that the Greek Cabinet resigned, folloW'iflg a fierce controversy as to whether th<3 .•econstruction of the country's affairs should have precedence over the reorganisation of its fighting forces. The militarists have so far been held in check, but the failure of the GrecoSerbian negotiations ha.s served to strengthen their policy. Neither public opinion nor the majority of the army desire to see a military Government established, Halifax (Nova Scotia), June 12. Word was received here this morning indicating that the disorders are spreading in the Cape ILeton district, where the coal-miners arc stniung. iiioting is reported to have broken out in the New Aberdeen and Glace fiay districts. Five hundred troops fully equipped are en route to New Waterford, where striking miners and the police clashed on Thursday. The former are still in possession of the power-house, which they captured from the police. Looting of the stores of the British Empire Steel Corporation in the vicinity of New Waterford is reported. London, June 11.

London i s sweltering, the temperature being 81 degrees in the shade, which is the hottest June in eighty years. The heat extends throughout die whole of Europe. There have been many seizures and deaths in steaming cities. There have been numerous deaths from heat, and 143 cases of collapse in London streets have been reported. Work m tne iron and steel furnaces in the Midlands is seriously affected. London is sating 200,000 gallons of ice cream daily. * Mrs Carly has succumbed to her injuries. The police found a hammer with which they believed the Carlys were killed. In the House of (jonvmons the Government moved a motion imposing i 33 1-3 per cent, ad valorem tax on imported lace. The Opposition tabled a string of amendments, all of which were defeated, and the motion was carried. Melbourne, June 12. In the Federal House of ltepresentatives Mr Charlton launched a Labor attack on the Government with a motion that the Government was deserving of the severest censure for a flagrant breach of faith in failing to honour a definite promise bv the Prinie Minister (Mr S. M. Bruce) that he would consult the House befor determining where the second cruiser should be built, and for antiAustralian action in sending millions of pounds put of the country for tne construction of both cruisers abroad.