GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1768, 5 June 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

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WHEAT. (Bee. June 5, 0.20 a.m.) London, June 4. The American visible supply of wheat east of the Rockies is 04,457,000 bushels. AUSTRIA'S MILITARY SCANDAL. Vionna, Juno 4. As tho outcome of the Redl incident, . twenty supposed Russian spies have been . secretly arrested, 3 ALLEGED CANCER CURE. London, Juno 4. . Doctor Otto Schmidt lias claimed before ' the Cologne Medical Society to have dis- • covered a. cancer parasite and curative i serum. Ho has requested the society to , appoint a Commission to investigate his [ claim. MENTAL DEFICIENCY BILL. London, luno 4. The Mental Deficiency Bill has been read a second time in the House of Commons. 'Chaotic Mexico. Washington, Juno 4. The State Department' at Washington has been advised that tho Mexican rebels have captured Matamorax. Tho fate of tho garrison >9 unknown. The destruction of railway lines, bridge burning, robbery, and murder are rife throughout Northern Mexico. SOUTH AFRICA'S 'NAVAL QUOTA. (Rec. Juno 5, 0.20 a.m.) Cape Town, June 4. General Smuts, speaking in the Assembly, declared that ho was not sanguine that anything would bo done in the immediato future in regard to tho naval contribution. CAPE' MINERS. Cape Town, June 4. Tho Capo Assombly lias overwhelmingly rejected a Labour motion to limit tho underground hours at the mines toeight, bank-to-bank. PLAGUE IN PERSIA. St. Petersburg, June 3. Plague has broken out in the Persian border districts., UNIONIST M.P. RESIGNS. London, June 3. Sir Henry Kimber, Unionist M.P. for Wandsworth since ISSS, has resigned, owing to ill-health. RELEASED "SPY" RETAINS COMMISSION. London, June 3. In tho Hotiso of Commons, Colonel Seely, Secretary of State for War, in reply to a question, said that Lieutenant Stewart, recently released after serving in Germany porlion of a sentence for espionage, would retain his commission. WATERSPOUT IN SPAIN. Madrid, .Tune 3. A waterspout caused widespread havoc at Elegonde, near Pamplona. Many farms were'destroyed and bridges ■ swept away. Several persons were killed.