GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 28, 30 May 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrigh (United Press Association.)

London, May 2S. Mr McKenna lias intimated to the strikers that some food must lie allowed to bo brought into London immediately. Messrs Tillett and Gosling asked Mr McKenna to lot tiiem know what was wanted and they would en-operate with the Home Office. Practically all tugs and barges on the Thames have been idled. The -trike leaders permitted pleasure steamers to run during the holidays. London’s supply of petrol, amounting to three hundred tons daily, which is taken in

barges from Thameshaven to up-river

stores, is endangered. The number of taxi-cabs in commission lias already been reduced.

Arthur flopped, the well-known bicycle trick diver, was killed at Hrightou Pier in the presence of thousands of holiday-makers. The Duke of Fife’s estate has been sworn at a million. The document has been sealed, it being regarded as Royal. The now Australian 18,000-ton White Star liner uses liquid fuel. Other companies are making similar developments with a view to using the Panama Canal and utilising the Texan and Mexican oilfields. Ottawa, May 28. The river steamer Mildred missed the locks at a canalised portion of the Lievrc river and went over the dam backwards. The crew leaped into the water and escaped. There were no passengers on the steamer, the boilers of which blew up, the craft floating in fragments down the river.

The United States Commissioner Hedges is here seeking to induce the Canadian Government not to withdraw from the fishing agreement in consequence of the United States’ failure to keep faith with the proposed fooel and fishery regulations. Mexico, City, May 28.

The Federate at Matzatlave executed several rebels and sympathisers on a cihargc of treason, including Roberts -Alameda, a Mexican millionaire. Alameda believed a pardon would be granted and ventured homo. The Federate captured and shot him. Washington, May 2S.

Efforts arc being made to induce Congress to consider the naval shipbuilding programme. There presentations include assertions that Germany designs to break the Monroe Hoctrine by the annexation of parts of Brazil. The anti-American tone of some German newspapers is the subject of comment.

Madrid, May 28

While a cinematograph performance was being given before 180 spectators in an old shop a spark set fire to the building. One door was barred and the other exit was blocked by flames. A few escaped through the lire. Out of sixty bodies which have already been recovered only 22 were identifiable.