GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 35, 6 February 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. London, February, 3. The by-election for the East Edin-burgh-seat, rendered necessary by the death of Mr Gibson, resulted in Mr Hogg, a Liberal, gaining 50(34 votes, against Mr Jameson (Unionist) 4139. It is authoritatively stated that, after the. failure of Conceiros’ raid, Don Miguel offered to recognise exKing Manuel as the legitimate King if the latter recognised the Miguel branch as collateral with the rights of succession. The offer was accepted, and an interview confirmed the arrangement. The Medina has reached Spithoad. The cold is the most intense for seventeen years. The thermometer registered zero in Norfolk. The roads in the Midlands are impassable. The schools are closed and telegraphs .are interrupted. Lord Avebury appeals for £SOOO to cover the expenses of the Anglo-Ger-man Friendship Society’s public meetings. . Ottawa, February 4. The Duke of Connaught, replying to i deputation from the Canadian, Defence League, approved its aims, inhiding awakening to the consciousicss of the need for national defence m an adequate scale and training of ill youths between fourteen and eighteen. Hold-ups continue. The Vancouver police arc powerless to trace a single ease. An armed unmasked nifin held up two hotels at midnight and escaped with large sums, after binding the night clerks, by means of a water pipe. Labour troubles are also growing, being fomented by Socialists, who demand the right to speak in the streets contrary to special police regulations. Teheran, February 3. While handling confiscated Persian shells in the citadel at Tabriz an explosion occurred, which killed an officer and fifteen men and wounded seven. Belgrade, February 3. Cabinet has resigned owing to the King’s refusal to dissolve the Skuptsehina. '

Sofia, February 3

Five Crown Princes of the Balkan States took part in thanksgiving services on the coining of age of Boris, Crown Prince of Bulgaria. The Czar sent Boris, who is his godson, a sword is a symbol of fraternity in arms between Russia and Bulgaria. Candia, February 3. A n insurrectionary assembly, representing the whole Christian population of Crete, resolved to send deputies to the Greek Chamber. The Mahommodans are awaiting the action of the Powers. Cairo, •February 3. Lord Kitchener and other high British and Egyptian officials, including a representative of the Khedive, attended a service in memory of the lato Duke of Fife. Port Said, February 3. The warship Powerful will convey the late Duke of Fife’s body to England. St. Petersburg, February 3. '' Eighteen persons were frozen to death and thirty buried in show in the Ishim district. Berlin, February 4. The Federal Council has adopted a draft of a nationality Jaw making loss of nationality more difficult and its resumption easier. It relieves Germans residing overseas or in any European countries from obligatory military service. Women who have married foreigners regain nationality upon widowhood or divorce. Pekin, February 4. A pier of a railway bridge near ihan-hai-twan was dynamited and the train toppled over. Nine Chinese were killed and twenty-one injured, but no foreigners wore hurt. Paris, February 3. Richelt, any Austrian inventor, trying an appliance intended to save aviators meeting with accidents in the nr, jumped from the first platform of the Eiffel Tower. The invention failed and Rcichelt was killed. The eviction of Frenchmen who are instructing a railway and port at Sodeidah, in the Red Sea, is causing much friction.