Additional Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 September 1912, Page 3

Additional Cables.

The following items have appeared in the Australian papers using the independent cable service:— LONDON, September 6. The 'Daily Express attacks Mr Lloyd-George's Tax -Collection Bill, and gives a list, of fifty millionaire members of the Liberal Party who will csciape its provisions. September •... Tho Trades' Union Co lgress at Newport has adopted a resolution calling upon all British workers to imitate the Continental custom of observing May Ist as Labour Day. September 9. Ranks that will ho open throughout the day and night are about to be established in London. The object o fthe innovation is to provide places of safetv in which tradesmen • will he enabled to deposit sums of money at any hour of the day or night. ROME, September' 8. The intense heat lately prevailing in Rome has driven a number of people to suicide. Not {i day passed during the week, on which, several cases, of self-destruction were not reported. ■ ' WASHINGTON, September "9 : . Shocking reports of the sickness and brigandage .prevailing, the rebel zone ; .iri' are beginning tp. reach the StattlDei*' partment in Washington. The victrious rebels at Granada have confis-f cated all the available food supplies J and are leaving non-eom&tn/its \o die of starvation in tl/e "sWeets. BOSTON, September 8. Leaving dozens of //liners seated at the tables and calling out for their luncheons the waiters iii two of the biggest hotels i»i Boston went out on strike yesterdi/v as a protest against the abolition/of the tip system. NEW YOR K, September 8. Labouijr bodies all over Europe are organisms? demonstrations to protest againsjt the imprisonment of the two Ttalia/ns, Ettore and Giovanitti, tho mo,"! who are declared to have been uvf'ongly convicted of the murder of n wo in nn who was shot during a street riot in connection with the textile workers' strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts. Tn Italy the syndicalists are organising a monster general strike in an endeavour to force the Government to interest itself on beha.lf of tho prisoners. The agitation has spread to England, and a. London committee, which has been formed, is now arranging a big Trafalgar Square meeting as a protest against tho further imprisonment of the two Italians. The American Federation of Labour announces that it will not Join in the general strike that is being organised b.v the Industrial Workers of the World with the object of securing tho men's release. September 9. Tn an address before the International Chemical Congress at Columbia University, Dr S. lOvde. of CJiristiania, declared that if Britain's enemies were to cut off her supplies of nitrate from Chili, the British arrnv would soon find itself in the predicament of being without ammunition for its guns.