GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9, 8 May 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Tdegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.i (3 London, May 6. < Fourteen farmers at Roscommon (have been committed for trial for rioting and assaulting a policeman in connection with a love dispute. Obituary: The Bishop of Truro. Lord Curzon presided at the Empire League’s reception to Sir Honniker Heaton at the Guildhall. The Evening News published special messages respecting the cricketers. Ranjitsinghi sends good wishes for England. Sir George Reid states that friendly contests arc the living links of Empire and wishes the Australians good luck. Mr Taverner and others also contribute messages. Countess Demanin added that when Bobbie reached Australia he asked her to go there with a maid, horses and dogs. They could marry quickly—“before anybody else had a chance.” Bobbie asked her to marry him while he was engaged to Mrs Williams. Herr Freund, president of the Berlin States Insurance Administration, declares that Mr Lloyd-Georgo has been precipate to the point of peril. The Premier, in the House of Commons, said Mr Bryce in no way interfered at conferences at Washington respecting reciprocity. Mr Ramsay Macdonald’s election slander action against Alan Burgaync has been settled, the (allegations being withdrawn and judgment for £l(j)p being agreed to. Sir George Reid and Sir W. HallJones were present at the Academy banquet. Mr Winston Churchill said; behind the development of a|waq. force lay the claim of a great/ Pdfter to put a distinguishing chM'ahtel'istic mark on mankind. There was a danger of man becoming fascinated by terrible machinery, but if two great civilised nations went to war they ■would be heartily sick of it before if was finished. The best way. q{ n u]a,king war impossible was to maker victory ..certain. j |! Mr Asquith, alluding to tlje Recent sale of Rembrandt pictures, urged increasing co-operation between private generosity and the State. Sir E. J. Poynter, president of the Royal Academy, advocated a register giving the nation the first refusal of classic pictures. A remarkable manifesto, protesting against the attempt made in Kicff to revise the charge of ritual murder or blood accusation against Russian Jews has been signed by leading theologians, writers, scientists and politicians, including Russian, French, German and English signatories. The signatures include those of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lords Rosebery and Cromer, Mr Balfour, and the High; Commissioners and Agents-General of the colonies. Count Robillard Cosnac, while dying at Antibes, encountered a strong wind, which broke the wings of his monoplane. He fell 300 feet, sustaining fatal injuries. Paris, -May 6. The Maharajah of Alwar, travelling from Marseilles to Paris, lost a case of jewellery valued at £24,000. Berlin, May 5. Baron Lieberstein, flic German Ambassador, has left Constantinople. It is reported that he will succeed Count Motternich as Ambassador in London. Regarding Pastor Liebe, the retired' Catholic missionary who died recently, it has been discovered that he had been in possession of a Cabinet containing sufficient poison to icill thousands, and the atrophine from which he died was alone sufficient to kill a hundred people. His correspondence showed that ho had been recently in communication with marriage brokers, advertising for a wife. The chemist who was charged with supplying Schnapps adulterated with methylated spirits to Berlin paupers last December has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, and others concerned in the fatality to two months’ imprisonment. One publican was acquitted. Rio do Janeiro, May 5. There were 133,016 immigrants to Brazil in 1911.