GENERL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 23, 24 May 1912, Page 5

GENERL CABLES.

THE BIG FLOWER SHOW. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Uuited Press Association.) London, May 22. The press unanimously described the international flower show as iite greatest in the world. The archids exhibited were valued at a million pounds. The King won two first prizes. BRITAIN AND GERMANY. London, .May 23. Count Metternich, addressing the German colony in London, said that unless all signs were deceptive, an impulse for reconciliation and peaceful neighbourliness was passing through England and Germany. It would repay the toil of noble minds to pursue its cultivation. PARLIAMENT PROROGUED. London, May 23. The House of Commons has adjourned until June 1. THE OCEANIA'S COLD. London, May 23. Forty out of the forty-six boxes oJ the Oceania's gold have been recover cd by the underwriters. It is being largely used for meeting the 'Titanic losses, and has greatly eased the situation at Lloyd's.

PRINCE GEORGE'S FUNERAL. London, May 23. The Telegraph's Berlin correspond ent reports that the Kaiser has refused to be represented at Princ* George of Cumberland's funeral, ant has ordered that no members of tin Hohenzollcrn family shall attend.

THE SUFFRAC ETTES. London May 23. The jury strongly recommended the suffragettes to mercy. Justice Coleridge, in sentencing them, observed that it' there bad been contrition or disavowal of tbe acts committed ho would have been disposed to accord them first division treatment. Mr. Lawrence and .Mrs Pankhurst were ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. After the sentence a woman in the Court leapt to her feet crying "Shame!" A procession passed th< dock, sinking Hands with the prisoners, who went to their cells rrniid crier, of "Keep the Hag flying!"

VIOLENT SOCIALISTS. Berlin, May 24. At the final sitting of the Reichstag session violent Socialistic: attacks were: made upon the Kaiser over the Alsace-Lorraine incident. Heir Ledebour decjared tjliat in England, under similar circumstances, the Throne would have, been - smashed .to atoms or the to BalmWal Castle to lead a retired life, like Abdul Humid. Herr Hollweg vigorously defended the Kaiser.

U.S. PRESIDENCY. , -May, 23. Mr Taft claims that the 570 delegates in favour'b'f him in the 1 ! CS i■:•;;go RepublicanCbnvention are sufficient tc securo his nomination for the Presidency. Mr Roosevelt carried the Ohio by a plurality of 250,000 votes. The Rooseveltian delegates number 32, raft's 10. UNREST IX MEXICO. Mexico City, May 23. The Federals attacked, the rebels' main column at Bellano. A tierce fight is progressing, with heavy losses. THE NORTH BOLE. Monte Video ,May 23. Captain Amundsen has announced that he will leave San Francieco in March, 1913, for the North Pole. A SENSATIONAL DEBATE. Capetown, May 23. A sensational debate occurred in the Assembly. Mr Smartt commented on Mr Hull's and Mr Sauer's statements as being diametrically opposed, and asked the Premier, General Botha, which was true. General Botha regretted that Cabinet differences should be discussed in public. It was true that the Cabinet had not been sufficiently consulted in railway matters. Mr Hertzog said that Ministers sympathised with Mr Hull, but it war; unfair to blame Mr Saner for the difficulties arising over the Railway Hoard. The Assembly, by GO votes to 39, refused to adjourn.

AN AMBITIOUS PLAN. (Received 24, 9.55 a.m.) London, May 23. English aviators are organising a flight from London to India. HUGE LIABILITIES. (Received 21, 9.50 a.m.) London, May 23. John Cathless Hill, builder and brickmaker, of London and Liverpool, has failed. Hi;; liabilities total a million pounds secured and a hundred thousand pounds unsecured. Till': PRINCE OF WALES. (Received 21, 9.50 a.m.) Paris, May 23. The Prince of Wales had a trip in a submarine in livers roadstead. ENCOURAGING HORTICULTURE. (Received 21, 9.50 a.m.) London, May 23. Mr Runciman announced thai the Board of Agriculture was organising a Horticultural Department, which would receive three thousand pounds per annum from the Development Commissioners. HUGE LINER LAUNCHED. (Received 24, 9.50 a.m.) Berlin, May 23. The Kaiser attended the launching of the Hamburg-American Co.'s huge liner fmperator at Hamburg. A block of wood fell near him.