GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 68, 15 March 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (United Press Association.* London, March 13. i One suffragette was sentenced t( I six months and ,I'niii; [ others to foiu. months’ imprisonment for windowsmashing. A Royal Commission, with Baron Macdonald as chairman, is making ex-, haustivo enquiries into tiie Civil Ser vice system. -1 Mr OliUrchill , is inquiring into th< alleged ring of armour-plate manufacturers. William >Tobbitt, who shot at Leopold de .Rothschild, has been remanded to' the- 21st. Mr Rothschild,' in evidence,..referred to Tebbitt in kindly terms. The Association of Chambers of Commerce has discussed a resolution in favour of an iAJI-Britisli trans-Atlantu Scahl'e. 'Sir John■ "Barron, M.P. for ■Hawick, on behalf of ; the Govern-, ment, foreshadowed great improvements in telegraphy. The resold.tmn- was 'then .withdrawn. Mr • Birrell, at the Liberation Society’s dinner,, said the settlement of the education controversy must be fair all round.. Nonconformists must not offer to the Church of'Rpmo what they were not prepared to offer the Anglicans, nor must they claim ■ exclusive ■privileges,, for themselves. : • Obituary;, Arthur Sassoon, who, was an intimate friend (of Eling Edward. A well-dressed suffragette has been arrested Lor smashing six shop win-. , dp.ws at GJasgdwq •: ah' 1 " 1 ’..'i Berlin, -March 13.' J ho ,'Norddeuscheiv '■ Lloyd Shipping iof'£2, 075;000 hist • year... The, increase was due to freights from South America.-.and Australia. Paris, March 13. In© Figaro” and other newspapers Wpm Spain not to .make concessions for the Tahgier-Pez railway unless she desires France to organise the protectj' , j i r.- 1 in jliiout-.i; 'Seville l ,* : while' monoplariing. five -hundred ‘feet lit Pan and' was 1 Billed., [mnL '■■■. ■’—The police - m;id‘e' two arrests and recovered two thousand pounds’ worth of securities ptolfeh -!)v' the motor bandite, jt; was deposited in. the cloak room at the Gar dh 'Nord. New York, March 13. Reports have been received from Colon that indicate that a sleeping volcano, underlies the' Cull bra cut-in the Bahama 'Canal, and steam is reported to be escaping through numerous small openings in the surface. Two highwaymen held up,the Southern Pacific train east of San Antonio, Texas. Sanderson, an express messenger, signalled to an imaginary person apparently behind the robbers and the latter turned, expecting an assailant, whereupon Sanderson fired, killing both robbers. At Hyde Park, Now York State, the second section of the Twentieth Century Limited express was wrecked, four passenger coaches being thrown into the river and partially submerged. It is remarkable that no one. was killed, though several were badly injured. Candia, March 13. ..The Assembly opposed the sending of deputies to Athens to abolish the existing Government. They ,closed the Government offices. Rome, March 13. In the course of excavations at . Pompeii the workmen uncovered a . vintner’s shop. The vintner had boon overcome by the lava whilst filling rows ci wine jars. There are many election placards visible on the walls.' A hermetically sealed cauldron which

still''contained water was also discovered. , Lisbon, March 13, Ninety prisoners escaped from a gaol in the province of Minso by digging a tunnel to the 'beach. They seized a large fishing boat'and threw fifteen of the crew into the sea, the latter being forced to swim two miles to the shore. A gunboat, pursued and sank the boat. Eighty-two of the prisoners were recaptured and eight drowned. New York, March 13. (tales along the Pacific Coast are endangering shipping. Fojir fishing vessels have been lost, and the crews’ fate is unknown. Calcutta, March 13. An explosion of a ton , and a half of dynamite stored in a floating magazine in Bombay harbour killed nine Lascars on the guard boat. Windows wore broken for miles around.