GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 61, 7 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association-^ (Received 6, 9.d0 a.m.) London, March 5. The' condition of Detective Berg, who was wounded by Tebbitt when the latter endeavoured to shoot Mr Leopold Rothschild is serious. Mr Rothschild states that ho know Tebbitt when lie was a boy and helped hii'm on several occasions, and finally sent him to Australia.. Tebbitt was remanded. His ■ solicitor stated that prisoner’s mind was affected by influenza and the over-study of chemistry. - > w . The ■ Walker Art Gallery at Liverpool has purchased the picture “Bon Jour/’ by Bess Morris, of Melbourne. Lisbon, March 5. Owing to impure water, typhoid is widespread in the city. . Paris, March 5.

Albert Koenig, a driver in the service of the Eastern France Railway, suffered from neurasthenia, threw himself into the furnace of his train while at full speed and was burnt to death. Berlin, March 5. Herr . Dcdhruock in the Reichstag stated ithat foreign industry had grown stronger,: and'that the tariffs had net ihelped 'Germany against the protectionist 'Countries, but free trade, England’s output exceeded anything forigners could.do.Growing private monopolies' might become more dangerous ■ than state monopolies and Germany may' have gradually to transform private into istaite monopolies, though the time was not yet ripe. , Throe' men were arrested at Frankfortonmaiil for betraying military secrets. They include a German mechanic, who wrote to the French embassy offering drawings and details of the now Krupp gun and projectile. Count Wolff Metternich accused Lieutenant Beckhams, from whom lie alleges he won three hundred and fifty sterling in London, of espionage in England. Under the direction of the German military authorities he was sending reports regularly to the German Government. Beckhams testified that he was sent to London partly on military and partly on private business. n . < ' London, March 5. The Conference of the National Free Church' at' Cheltenham is discussing relating to religious educate ion. i Welsh' disestablishment, and the relatiqm. of capital and' labor. , Agahkham, in resigning the presidency cif the All-India ’Mcislehi Lea- . gue, attributed hi'sf resignation > id' ac- ; cjiuosciiugoia ■ breaking ‘pledged to 1 i!he Molmnfmedans of Eastern Befigal. ■ Tebbitt followed the' occhpatioii of! a leather merchant’s agent for ten years. He was in Australia, and arrived from Melbourne in March last. His wife is stilMh /Australia. Mr. Rothschild had a remarkably narrow escape, two shots be.lug fired pqintj blank"!at >• the 'car; ■ Detective Berg grappled with the assailant, who fired two more : (shots; shooting Berg hi .the (When i ante sited he 'gave the , game, of • iWilliamwTebbitt, a Jew un- . known to Mr. Rothschild. • •:-i-v ,i. Ottawa March 5. A .search party found a missing mail carrier i at,Lake Nipigon, partly eaten by wolves. The mail bags were also devoured. ~ He. had shot four wolves before Jip .succumbed. Official .permission has been accorded to the Vancouver cadets to tour Australia as a representative Canadian corps. Sixty boys leave hero in July, and will be absent about five months. Mexico City, March 5. Americans, who were ordered to leave Mexico in consequence of its disturbed state, find ilt impossible to secure conveyance northward. The whole country is seething with excitement, and considerable fighting around Chihuahua is reported. Calcutta, March 5. The All-India , Moslem League ap L provod of the transfer of the capital, but bitterly deplored the annulment of the partition of Bengal, as having the appearance that the authorities were reafly to make concessions to seditious clamors.