GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 72, 21 March 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, March 20. Freeman’s Journal has passed to the control of the Nationalist Committee. Mr Sexton, chairman is retiring. Notice of the compulsory acquisition of lands at Galway, belonging co Lord Clanricarde, have been gazetted at Dublin. The Congested District Board offered £228,075 for the land. Washington, March 20. The House of Representatives adopted by a large majority the Democratic Excise Bill taxing all salaries exceeding £IOOO per annum. Experts declare that the San Antonio locomotive explosion was due to steam. It had been suggested that it was due to dynamite. The death roll numbers thirty-three.

A coal 'shortage threatens the Navy supplies. The Secretary of the Navy has .arranged a conference with the bituminous coal operators with a view to securing an adequate supply. St. Petersburg, March 20.

A Russian court martial at Tabriz, since the troubles there, sentenced thirty-seven mutineers to death. The Acting-Governor . at Azerbaijan has also sentenced an additional fifty. Quiet has been restored. Lisbon, March 20.

Bombs manufactured on a barber’s premises at Oporto exploded, wrecking four houses. Four people were killed and five injured.