GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1797, 9 July 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telejraph—Pr«6B Association—Oopyricht 9 NEW GERMAN WAR MINISTER. (Rec. July 9, 0.45 a.m.) Berlin, July 8. Major-General von Palkenliagen has been appointed War Minister. INTERNAL ANARCHY. (Sydney "Sun" Special,) (Rec. July 8, 6.50 p.m.) London, July 8. Delegates at the annual conference of the Fabian Society emphasised tho necessity of Socialists grappling with the anarchy which x was disrupting their ranks. MILLIONAIRE SPENDTHRIFT. (Sydney "Sun" Special.) New York, July 7. The son of the millionaire, C. 0. Yates, states that he dispensed ,£200,000 in' tips last year, and that he will spend' every copper of. his fortune—eight millions—before he dies,. CERAMICS TRIAL TRIP. London, July 7. Tho new Whito Star liner Ceramic. 18,000 tons, mado a successful trial trip. Sho has, in accordance with tho Admiralty policy, been armed with guns with a range of from 1300 to 5500 yards. NEGRO LYNCHED. Now York, July 7. At Pensacola, Florida, a mob lynched a negro who had attacked a white Eirl. They hanged him to p. telegraph p.ole, and riddled his body with bullets.

MIDLANDS STRIKE SETTLED. London, July 7. Tho strike in the Midlands, which has been in existence for some time, has been settled. MOTOR FATALITIES. Now York, July 7. Two persons were killed and thirty injured, some of them. seriously,'through a collision between a road roller and a coaster motor. At Louisville, Kentucky, a man was fatally injured through an auto running over a rock and hurling it against his head. A PLEASING COINCIDENCE. London, July 7. Coincident with the opening of tho King's industrial tour of Lancashire, the strike of farm hands at Ormshirk winch commenced last month, which -piously affected the produce supplies of Liverpool and other centres, and which had extended over a large area, has been settled after a conference between the farmers and the labourers. EIRE IN SYDNEY. Sydney, July 8. A fire partially gutted tho T. T. Electric Fitting Company's premises in Clarence Street. The damage was heavy.