GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1677, 18 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

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EISB IN LBATHBB. ; (Rco. February 18, 1 a.m.) Sydnoy, February 17. . Owinsr to continued unprecedented values in hides and 6kins, the' tanners have raised tho price of all leather ten per centum. Tho advance takes effect im« ' mediately. . • •"■'•.• ~ lATB SHIPPING. , Newcastle, February 17. Arrived: Waitara, from Now Zealand. SOCIALISTS AND MILITARISM. \ Brussels, February 17. The Socialists aro objecting to the army increases and announce a. general strika on April M, v THE : FRENCH'ARMY. Paris,-February 17. ' The newspapers advocato a revival of tho triennium system of military service in the army. • ; THE POPE'S BEREAVEMENT. , (Rec. February 17, 11.15 p.m.) Romo, February 17, His Holiness the Pope, in giving on audienco to Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, acknowledged tho tokens of sympathy in his bereavement, especially thoso from tho Anglo-Saxon countries. CHINAMAN RUNS 'AMOK. , • ' ■ Sydney, February 17. Sue Quan Song, a demented Chinaman from tho country, ran amok about promises occupied by Chinese importers, fired a revolver at another Chinaman, Jimmy Chew, wounding him seriously, another slightly, and cut a constable's head open iwith a tomahawk. Ho was overpowered after dffying the police for two hours. BRITISH INSURANCE ACT. . ■'■> London, February 17. Tho Insurance Commissioners have received 2,365,056 applications for unomploy. ment books.' Fivo thousand eight hundred and seventy-three were refused nn the ground that the applicants were inelijiblo. MATRIMONIAL SWINDLES. : Berlin, February 16. Dr. Scgel, of tho Construction Depart- ] ment, previously stated by a nowsnapcr , to have been arrested on a chargo of selling submarino plans to England, is ac- i cuscd of matrimonial swindles, not cspion- i ago. , I SYLVIA PANKHURST RELEASED. ; • London, February 16. A friend paid Miss Sylvia Panklmrst's ) flnos, and she has been released from cus- < tody. fMiss Pankhurst was sentenced to 1 six weeks' imprisonment in default of l Qnce for window-smashing.] ' 1