GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 47, 20 February 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) CUuited Press Association.J Loudon, February 19. The. trial of the new battleship Lion showed that the heat generator is so powerful that the flames were fifty feet above the funnel. The metal fittings of the bridge were twisted, and the compasses rendered useless. Alterations will cost £25,000. The .annual report of the Century Unemployed Body states, that emigrants show a distinct disinclination to settle in Canada when the opportunity is offered them to go to Australia or New Zealand, where the economic conditions are far in advance of Canada’s, v Reuter has received Central African advices that there was a severe tribal fight in the Bulayga district, in the vicinity cf the Anglc-Congolese frontier. Two hundred and ninety-five were beheaded and their bodies horribly mutilated. ‘ (Received 20, 11.15 a.in.) London, February 19. In addition to the disappearance of books from the Peterborough and Lincoln Cathedral libraries extensive thefts from the Lichfield Cathedra! library have been reported. The New South Wales touring exhibit at Blackpool attracted five thousand people daily for ton days and a thousand persons attended lectures on Saturday night. Mr Ellis Griffiths succeeds Mr Masterman as Under-Secretary at the Home Office. In the Admiralty battle practice during 1911 the Australian fleet is first with an average of 257.42 points, China 182.17, Atlantic and fifth cruiser squadron 158.31. The Encounter is the first ship with 446 points and the Australia seventh. In the gunlayers’ tests the Powerful is first with 66 points. Paris, February 19. James Gray, a New Zealand' cattle breeder, was the victim of a confidence trick in a Pads hotel, by -which he lost £IOOO. The thief called himself Wellington, and stated he lived in London. He has disappeared. Berlin, February 19. The Kaiser has declined to receive the President and Vice-President of the Reichstag unless Herr Schcidermann joins them. This is interpreted as an attempt to compel the Reichstag to- elect-non-Socialist officials'. Vienna, February 19. Croatian's* made, on anti-Austrian dqmonstratipij fity Sarhjtvo. Shots ! well, exchanged with the police. The lattei dispersed the crowd with their swords. A Mahommedan student was killed, and several were injured. Numbers were arrested. St. Petersburg, February 19. Pitiful appeals for help are emanating from the famine districts. Typhoid and scurvy are raging, and tiic winter crops threaten failure. Food riots occurred districts and the peasants are burning the property of the richer inhabitants. Cairo, February 19. Advices from Yemen state that Vacchief Dohiaui blew up a magazine attached to the .fortress at Sanara, when the Imen of Yahya had taken refuge. One Hundred were killed. (Received 20, 11.0 a.m.) Berlin, February 19. A secret society for assassinntior and suicide has been discovered among the pupils of a school; at Stuttgart. Many scholars were enrolled The authorities are taking vigorom measures. Vienna, February 19. The “Zeit” says it believes Berchtold, the new Minister for Foreign Affairs, is tu'rangnfg an understandim. with Russia to avert peril in- the Bal kans, this spring. His appointment it generally welcomed. (Received 20, 1.15 p.ra.) New York, February 19. A Russian seaman named Krakow ski ran amok- aboard the incoming steamer Harpagus. Arming himself with 'a sharp file lie endeavoured tc stab several of the crew but after a struggle he was captured. The cap tain endeavoured to land Krakowsk. at several ports in Washington State but as the authorities refused the man he remains in irons aboard the ship. The snub given to the State Department has caused some irritatioi in diplomatic circles in the United States, Colombia having written ob jecting to Secretary Knox’s proposed visit there during the tour of Souti America'. The cause of the snub it believed to be the failure of the Am erican Government to give an assurance that Colombia’s claims a gains! America would be settled by arbitration.