GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 55, 29 February 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, February 27. The by-election for the St. Rollox division of Glasgow, occasioned by Mr McKinnon Wood’s appointment as Secretary for Scotland, was hotly contested, and resulted; Mr McKinnon Wood 8430, Mr McQuirton (Unionist) 8061. It was fought on the issues of Home Rule and the Insurance Bill.

Newspapers revive the statement that in view of the opening of the Panama Canal there is need for Britain fortifying Fanning Island, considering the establishment of a naval base at Washington Island, and also inquiring with regard to dock construction at these places. Mr Bottomley was subjected to a searching cross-examination, directed to show that the newspaper John Bull, which had denounced financial swindlers, afterwards published their advertisements.

Bottomley admitted that ho had authorised a barrister to hint to the Prudential Company’s representative that lie was willing to publish no further attacking articles if the Prudential Company agreed to the bankruptcy scheme.

The judges said that Bottomley’s evidence chiefly convinced them that the charge of blackmail was established. It would be useless to inflict a heavy fine, since the editors would have to pay it. Mr Aubrey Lowe, who is well known in the West End, twice knocked Bottomley down. Lowe states that the quarrel commenced a year ago in Edinburgh, during the pantomime season.

The Express states that Bottomley has been dining at Romanos with Peggy Primrose, an actress, who was the mistress of Aubrey Lowe. London, February 27. Mr Robertson, Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade, replying to a question by Mr Alden, Liberal member for Tottenham regarding Belgian emigrants, said all requirements of the Shipping Acts had been complied with. St. Petersburg, February 27.

There arc pathetic stories current about the Jack of food, fuel and clothing in the famine districts. The Zemstovos of the Simbiresk province's have no fund, and the a)uthorities are unable to open a free kitchen for the (starving. In the Maskvis and Orenburg districts the starving populace refused the Christians’ aid, fearing that if they accept they will be compelled to adopt the orthodox religion. The authorities at Toblosk decline to open kitchens until the peasants be-( gin to die. .' >

Berlin, .February 27. , Two hundred and ten chasseurs, pqlice and artillery are pursuing a band of Gipsy desperadoes in the Frank-fort-on-Main district. The Gipsy leader, Ebener, aged 24, murdered a gendarme and afterwards committed three murders, including his own father, during a quarrel over a horse deal. The gang are now breaking into lonely houses, and the surrounding villages are terror-stricken.

New York, February 27. Mrs Brown and John Aldern were found on a roadside at Tacoma apparently battered to death with a club. The husband, Brown, confessed to the murder in the second degree. He stated that he quarrelled with his wife and lay in wait for her and Aldern. He struck them down. The wife rose and he pursued her, killing her with a blow on the head.

It is reported from Marfa, Texas, that a band of Mexican insurgents surrounded the Nelson Morris ranch opposite Sierra Blanca and fought a band of American cowboys for twelve hours. The insurgents sought to capture the ranch and the cowboys defended it. Several were killed on both sides. An appeal was sent to neighbouring ranch and a party of Americans started to relieve their compatriots.

Part of £SOOO stolen from a messenger in a taxi-cab has been recovered at Boston. Several arrest's were made including two Italians. Ottawa, February 27.

Resolutions introduced in the Federal Parliament propose adding IJngava to Quebec province, .thus making Quebec the largest in the Dominion instead of British Columbia. Ontario gets a large slice of Keeavatin and Manitoba has .already secured an extension of boundaries.

Mr Hughes, Minister of Malitia, announces that no Canadian team will be sent to Bisley 1912 meeting unless the National Rifle Association changes the rules regarding the Ross rifle. Canadian riflemen have been subjected to various annoyances in the Old Country since the Ross rifle attained its present high state of efficiency.

The police authorities are conducting an exhaustve investigation into the destruction of the Quebec bridge in 1.907, the theory being that labour agitators itsed dynamite similar to the McNamara’s crime at Los Angeles. The contractors for the bridge were the Phoenix Bridge Company, which concern suffered the heaviest from labour outrages. Mexico City, February 27.

The town of Ja.urez is threatened. The rebels, under Campa, the revolutionary general, are advancing. Ho declares that if opposed ho will take the lives of foreigners. Much alarm prevails. Geneva, February 27. State Councillor Eugene Berlie has been sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment for frauds involving a hundred and ten thousand pounds, by which: many persons were ruined and two went mad. Brussels, February 27. The steamer Deliverance foundered in the Kemango River. Thirtytwo wore drowned.

Washington, February 27. Testifying before the Naval Affairs Committed Mr Meyer, Secretary for the Navy, declared that If the Uhltbd States did not build two battleships yearly Japan by 1916 would have wrested from her the position of the third naval power. Mr Meyer demanded a million dollars for the creation of wireless stations,, to step American warships in touch with Washington, similar to the plan followed by the British Admiralty. Oanea, February 27.

The warships Lancaster and Minerva have arrived. The Consuls handed the Government a drastic note warning the Cretans that if they are unable to govern themselves peaceably the Powers will take drastic action which might not be in conformity with Cretans’ wishes. Capetown, February 27.

A majority report of the Commission on Trades and Industries recommends adequate but not prohibitive protection of agriculture in order to promote labour, and it advocates compulsory free primary education and the establishment of an iron and steel industry.

Teheran, February 27. Sal-a-red Dowleh’s forces recaptured Kermanshah.