GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2125, 17 April 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Toteer&ph'-Prcs.s Association—Copyright

TRADE UNIONISM. (Rec. April 16, 10 p.a>.) tendon, April 16. Tim Board of Trade Labour Gazette states that at tlio end of 1912 trade miioa membership totalled 3,281,003, an incrcaso of eight per cent, over 1911. Tits membership has ihoto than doubled siiico 18D6. TWO ALBANIA. ' Durazzo, April IS. Ree&ufc arrivals at the capital an» noufice the formation of another autonomous State in North-West Albania.—' "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. STtVTA PANKHTJR.ST "GAGGED" IN GERMANY. Berlin, April 15. Under the law prohibiting addresses in a foreign tonguo, tho police have pro* Whiter! Miss Sylvia Panldiiirst from lecturing on the subject of woman suf« frngo. SMALLPOX. - Sydney, April 16. There is tins smallpox ease at Newcastle. The latest cases reported here aro extremely mild, (Rec. April 17, 0.40 ajn.) Newcastle, April 16. One ease of smallpox has been rc* ported. NEW FRENCH BATTLESHIP. « Paris, April 15. A battleship of 20,600 tons is being laid down at Brest, It will carry sixteen 13|-jiieli guns, ill four revolving turrets. BIG YIELD "FROM GERMANY'S new betting tax. Bofiiri, April 15. Tho doubling of ths hettini; tax, it is estimated, will yield nearly a million sterling to tlio Imperial Treasury,. and a quarter of a million to the federated States. COAL ORDERS FOR GERMANY, ■ Befirt, April 15. The Press states that coal orders to tho extant of a million tons have been placed in Germany by foreign buyers, who hitherto exclusively dealt with England.—"Time's" and Sydney "Sun" Services. ; . TERRIFIC' CYCLONE SWEEPS MOZAMBIQUE.

-;•': Lisbon, April 15. A cyclone destroyed Port Amelia, Mozambique. : Many natives perished. Tho Europeans were transferred to. Ibo.