ADDITIONAL CABLES.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14517, 7 May 1913, Page 2

ADDITIONAL CABLES.

INFLUENZA EIPTDEMIEC.

The influenza epidemic in London is assuming alarming proportions, the deathrate from the malady ha-vr ing trebled during March. The Health Office is offering to disinfect, in a scientific way, the rooms occupied by patients. A KORIRSIFyING PIKiTURE. Lady Bedford, in a letter to 'The Times/ draws a horrifying! picture of the barbaric treatment of political prisoners in Portugal. Two gallant ißloyalist soldiers, she writes, were imprisoned in cells so small that they were forced to kneel. They were denied the consolations of religion. Their eyes regarded the visitors with an indescribable pathos, imploring help. FO'Rl THE COLOURS.' The German ai'mament levy includes all British subjects who are following profitable occupations in Germany. It was originally intended that they should be exempt, but the temptation'to mulct them was irresistible. DA.NCING IN, THE DAfRK. Dancing in the dark is the latest fashionable diversion of the exclusive circles of Washington. The dancers carry red electric flash lamps, which they turn on now and then, and the .gaiety usually lasts till daylight,, when a breakfast of scrambled eggs and suasages is served. | LTBSRTT OR, LtfiCEIN&E? The Pope received in the Ctansistioiial Hail at the Vatican' a deputation of Italian and French pilgrims, who asserted that the liberty of the Press was degenerating" into a license that was mainly directed against the faith. They implored His Holiness to exercise his influence to bring pressure to bear upon" the Governments to make the newspapers respect the Roman Catholic Church.