GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 21, 25 June 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

* TORN TO PIECES BY DOGS. CHILD'S DREADFUL FATE. Paris, June 13. t To be torn to pieces by dogs was the ]> dreadful fate of a child at Trouville yes- q terday. t The little victim was a nephew of t Count Nouvailles. He was out iu charge v of 'hia governess, who called at a place t where iwelve savage dogs were being p trained for the police service. g Although strictly warned not to go c near the animals, the boy entered the t kennel, and had no sooner got inside a when he was set upon by the brutes, and t torn limb from limb before anyone could t possibly rescue him. 1 i ANCIENT JEWELS. __ { A REMARKABLE EXHIBIT. ! London, June 12. j Dr W. M. Flinders Petrie, Professor of Egyptology at University College, had a notable exhibit of antiques at the Royal Society's conversazione to-night. Amongst the exhibits were some arti- ( cles of Egyptian jewellery dating from | 3,000 8.C., including a pectoral soldered , with gold and inlaid with turquoise, lap- . is lazuli, and carnelian. The fabric has not previously been seen in Great Britain, and the workmanship ] is such that it is considered beyond the skill'of a modern craftsman. . BROWN AND WHITE RACES. London, June 13. Rear-Admiral Mahan, the United States naval authority, has a letter in the- Times respecting Japan's position among the nations. He rejects the assumption that the English race is superior to the Japanese or the Chinese, but he says that he perceives with clearness the difficulties of the West assimilating the East. The formative influences of the divergent pasts, and the racial instincts of the two distinct peoples, contribute to these difficulties. The rear-admiral claims that there is no necessary connection between a nation's status as a Great Power and its right to receive the privileges ef immigration and naturalisation from another country. He adds that governmental methods are unable to change national characteristics sufficiently to obliterate racial distinctions. OLYMPIC GAMES. SHALL WOMEN COMPETE? London, June 13. The questions on the agenda paper for , the Olympic Congress, which is to be held in Paris in March next, include the folowing:— Whether women shall be permitted to lake part in the games. The minimum age of competitors. Definition of amateurism. Nature of the programme. SCULLING CHAMPIO'SnniP. PEARCE PLEASES EXPERTS.' I London, Jane !3. Barry is now in strict training for lis approaching race with Harry P.iareefor the sculling championship. i The Putney experts are pleased at the' way Pearce.is shaping. It is considered that he is not so graceful as his rival, but that he moves his boat alon<» quite as well as the Englishman does. ° Pearce weighs 13st, and Barry is slightly on the heavy side. Dick Arnst's challenge to row the win- ! ner of the Barry-Pearce contest is not taken seriously in English rowing circles.CANADA'S NAVAL PROBLEM. DOMINION ALONE CAN SOLVE. m, m . . London, June 13. , me Times, in a leading article dealing with the position between Mr R L Borden (Premier of Canada) and the British Government, says:— "Natural anxiety is felt at the situation, and the defeat of the naval proposals Members of the House of Commons will be well advised if they refrain at present from too many questions. "The position has been met provisionally by Mr Churchill's announcement. The problem is one that Canada alone can solve." ENTENTE CORDIALE. PRESIDENT GOING TO ENGLAND. .„ ~ London, June 13. President Poincaro will pay a visit to England on June 24th. and will l, e welcomed at Portsmouth by the Prince of Wales on behalf of the King. The French President will embark at Cherbourg on the Courbet, the most powerful battleship in the French navy, and she will be escorted by the first light squadron. 6 MILLIONS IN REVENUE. A PROFITABLE MONOPOLY. • ™ t, , „ Paris > June 13. me I'reneh Government's monopoly of the sale of cigars and tobacco produced revenue to the amount of £2IOOO 000 last year. ' CAT KILLS A~ CHILD. ~ . London, June 13. At an inquest on a child at Islington in fcorth-wct London, to-day, the evident went to prove that while the little one was asleep in a perambulator'a cat curl ed itself up on the child's face, and dcatl was due to suffocation. ENGLISH RAILWAY FATALITIES. LAST YEAITS RECORD. London, June 12. Oyer 1,000 pcrsous were killed on tin English railways last year, and mor, than eight time* as many were injured k\ *' V° S !n ( i CtiV( . ! . totals hcin S mi an, II 8,/UO. The victims were mostly railwaJ employees.