GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2154, 21 May 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Tcltffrrir'ii—l'rosg Ateocia Uon- Copyrig h t ' 0— "FREE SHIPOWNERS- 1 ' DECLARE V LOCK-OUT. (Rec. May 20, midnight.) • ,■, , , Ro f-' May 20, A loepout- has boeu cloclared by the Federation of Free .Shipowners, and 140 ships liavo boon tied up. • The newspaper ';Stampa" states that tho shipowners offered tho Federation 'of.Seamen, the 1-10 ships to run-on a cooporative basis. KRtiPPS AND THE GERMAN WAR LEVY-. Berlin, May 20. ■ The Krapp family is paying £'430,000, as its contribution to the Gonnan war j levy. Of this amount, Fratilmtt Bertha Krupp and her husband pay £345,000. SYDNEY'S NORTH SHORE BRIDGE, Sydney, May 20. The. Stole Premier (Mr. W. A. Hotman), announces tii.-it lie wit.l pirtco the North Shore Bridge aiul city railway in Elie forefront of next scs'siou's pto- . gramme. STERN MEASURES™FOR A SPY. . Berlin, Jlay 20. A man named Dotmisky., a. non-com-missioned officer of. the 3rd Cuirassiera, has been sentenced 'to fifteen year's penal servitude lot' espionage and fined £1600. ' . WAREHOUSEMAN'S LUCKY WINDFALL. London, .May 20, John Rhodes, a Bradford wftrthouseman, earning '30s. a week, has jftst inherited a fortune of £170,000 from ail uncle, a colliery owner. FLEET ST. PRESS CLUB DESTROYED nv Fifth'. London, May ID. An alarming tiro occurred at the Press | Club in Fleet Street. The clubrooin war, j burnt out. LORD CROMER iLT,-. Lnjtdon, May IS).. Lord Cromer, es-British Agent and -Consul-CI eweral in Egypt, is seriously ill. THE GOODS AYE BUY. London, May 20. Leeds manufacturers report that a lower ijnslity of goix's is ginng out freely to Australia and Now Zealand.— 1 '''Times" and Sydney "Sun"- Services.