CABLEGRAMS

Western Star, 9 November 1909, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

LONDON, Nov. 6. Herr Dcrnbcrg, speaking as n guest of the African Society in London, said that the impressions uppermost in his mind after visiting South Africa were the great work done there by Englishmen especially Cecil Rhodes, and the spirit of mutual un derstaud.ng and conciliation that had just accomplished the junifloaflion of the nation under the, British flag. Colonel Seely, in a subsetjiuent speech, frankly remarked that the .Union of South Africa would have boon impossible e without the help and cooperation of the Government’s political opponents. LONDON,, Nov. (3. Lieutenant-Commander Ha so, who was involved in the Kiel scandals has .committed 1 suicide. The evidence of Kiel officials affirm the charge of unbusinesslike methods at the yards, and show that, there was lack 0 f control, and/ that old mat erial was handled. It is officially declared that the aim of the establishment was not successful business, but efficient and instant readiness for War, LONDON 1 , Nov. o. The trl a l has commenced on a petition of ri-ht from the Imperial Cold Storage Company claiming £.280,000 damages from the Crown for breach of contract. It is cl at mod that the War Office refires ntativbs promised to supply the Company with .all the stock captured by Lord Kitchener dur ing the Boer War at a penny beldw the pricb of the cbht't'fiSft supply-

ing meat to the Army, whereas the War O'llieo charged 3d abovjo the contruei price, and refused to allow fox disease or poverty of animals. According to some witnesses. Lord Kitchener declared that the old contractors defrauded the War Office of ■a million sterling and.he would not j be satisfied till he got some back from hthe supplicants. An important question involved was .whether the I agreement was made under the Dutch I or English law. i I - LONDON, Nov. 5.

In connection with the Bermondsey election outrage, in which some corrosive fluid was thrown, Mrs Chapin Miss Chapin and Miss Ne’lson have been committed for trial. The doctor "'as unable to affirm whether ,or not Mr Thornley's injurj was from an irritant fluid or whether the effects would be permanent. (It was cabled that at the election a party of suffragettes rushed a booth and threw some corrosive fluid in. a ballot box in order to annul the voting. In saving the ballot papers, the Returning Officer, Mr Thornley, had I

an eye injured and,it was, stated that the injury ,was caused iVy some drops of the corrosive fluid getting in bis eye. The fluid was not vitrol. Suffragettes at Birmingham have posted posters on windows and doors They broke the windows of Dr Cassill’s house as a protest against his helping forcibly to feed the suffragettes in goal. LONDON, Nov. 7. Lord Charles Beresford, in a letter to Mr Lloyd, solicitor, the unionist -and id ate for Uhodda - , declares that [ho navy is not properly organised or rained. No plan of campaign existed tnd the navy was dangerously short ty many units. Unless the country woke up to the great necessity of an do un te naval defence shortly there was no doubt that the Empire would be a thing of the past. ‘‘Thinking pco pic of other countlies see the dangerous position of Britain more clearly than we do.” LONDON, Nov. 5. Tlie Daily Mail states that the Or ion, a super-Dreadnought, is about tc be completed at Portsmouth, She will bo six hundred feet long, with eighty six feet Loam, a speed of twenty one or.t&onty two knots, anld be fitted with ten thirteen-inch guns. K lb VIENNA, Nov. of Bertuch, a n Augtri an engineer, h a s invented a diminutive aerial torpedo, which can be charged from , a rifle and which is capable of bringing down an airship at a height of over; irttoee thousand foot.