GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4, 2 May 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, April 30. Mr H. Samuel, Postmaster-General, speaking in the House of Commons, announced that he had arranged for a lull-rate wireless system from London to New York at eighteenpcnce a word, compared with a shilling a word for cablegrams, and a deferred plain language rate of foui'pence a word, as compared with sixpence. Mr Samuel, in reply to a question as to the origin of the false reports of the Titanic's safety, said that they had not been traced. (Received 1, 9.20 a.m.) London, April .'3O. Miss Amy Castles has signed a contract for a five years' engagement at the Imperial Opera at Vienna, commencing in September. Dolly Castles has been engaged to lead the new musical comedy at New York in August. (Received 1, 9.15 a.m.) Paris, April 30. Samon was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and fined 20,000 francs. His defalcations totalled £BB4O. New York, April 29. Heavy rains continue, flooding the creeks and rivers. The Mississippi is again rising. The farmers are terrorstricken, fearing a repetition of the recent disaster. The employees of independent manufacturing concerns in Zion City, Illinois, attacked a group of 300 men and women engaged at a prayer meeting, and clubbed them. Many were seriously injured. The ill-feeling has been developing for weeks past in consequence of the establishment of independent concerns among the Dowieites, who sought to keep, the city to themselves. As a protest against the employees using tobacco, the Zionists have been holding prayer meetings in the factories, thus infuriating the workers. Tokio, April 30. An explosion wrecked the Hokkaido Co.'s Urari pit. Two hundred, and eighty-three men are hopelessly entombed. (Received 1, noon.) London, April 30. A motor car stopped at a jeweller's shop in Brixton at midday. A man descended, broke a window and seized a tray 'of fifty rings. He then re-entered the car and escaped. A fire at Guy's Hospital severely damaged the biology department, but the patients were not disturbed, owing to the / firemen's promptitude in quelling the outbreak.