GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2395, 26 February 1915, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

'Uy.Telesr&ixh.—Prees Association—Oonyxieht AN,ABOMINABLE PRACTICE - CONDEMNED -CRIMINAL ABORTION IN SYDNEY, (ftec. February ,25, 2.50 p.m.) Sydney, February 25. Speaking at the annual mooting of the Royal Hospital for .Women, Dr. Foreman, chairman of the . Medical Staff, outspokenly, condemned certain practices. He said that the cases treated at the Hospital included 124 resulting from that most abominable practice, criminal abortion, which was becoming a flourishing industry all over the place. Doctors,-nurses, chemists, and illegal practitioners, he added, competed all over the city. It was a shocking state of affairs, and ona that was increasing at a ■ great rate. • Those cases treated did not represent one-twentieth part of the totaL numbar. He scathingly denounced doctors. ,Who descended to such practices. . THE SINGAPORE RIOT CASUALTY LIST,' CABLE COM- ' PANT'S STAFF. § Mr. R. R. Black, Superintendent of the Eastern Extension, Australasia, and .China Telegraph Company at Cable Bay, has information that the following oomprise casualties to'the Cable Company's staff in the recent riot at Singapore:'— Killed.—Messrs. Woalcombe, .Wald, and Smith, Mrs. Woolcombe.. Injured.—Flett and Gardiner. • • Wald was. shot' while driving in a motor-car with Flett, Smith, and Mrs. Wald, the lady escaping unscathed. The Woolcombes were killed while driving in a motor-car near the depot. Gardiner was woqnded in action. Wald was an Adelaide man, tad con- , aidered to be a very brilliant electrician. He leaves a wife and one child. Smith and Flett hailed from the Old Country; the latter has visited New Zealand several times in tho cable ship.

'ANOTHER OFFICER DEAD.' The High Commissioner reports a •further fatality in connection with, the soldiers' riot at Singapore, in the death .-of Jlajor Galwej. SOCIALISM AND KAISERISM ONE Afl BAD AS THEOTHER. .. Adfiiaido, February 25. The Hon. A. E. Peake, Premier of South Australia, in a policy speech, referred to the danger of Socialism. The ioss of .the right to be free to work and live would be none the less .bitter and galling if. inflicted by a majority of the people of trade unions than if by .order of a Kaiser. ; He stated that legislation would be submitted giving immediate effect to the result of a referendum in favour of the early closing of hotels, the prohibition of the sale of liquor to minors, more effective licensing courts, and the prohibition of the sale of inferior liquor. It was' the 'Government's intention Hot to increase taxation. QUEENSLAND LOAN SHORT CURRENCY AT £99. London, February 24. Th« Stock Exchange Committee announces that'the Treasury'has approv-. ied and the Committee will allow dealings in £11,728,000 worth of Queensland 4} per cent, bonds and stock, to be reported at the Stock Exchange. The Joan will be of short currency, and will be issued at 99. ITEMS IN BRIEF AUSTRALIAN BISHOP'S APPEAL FOR FUNDS. v London, February 24. Tie Bishop of Kalgoorlie (Right Rev. -Dr. Golding-Bird) is appealing in the •jiewspapers for funds for his diocese.