GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8, 3 September 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) THE WEATHER AT HOME. London, September 2. August was the wettest and mo?t sunless mouth experienced for thirtythree years and the coldest for fiftyfive years. REDUCED PRESS CABLES. London, September 2. The Western Union ami Atlantic cable companies !'.:iave reduced press rates for Eastern Canada to 3£d, and Western Canada to 6}d during slack hours. YACHT AND SHIP COLLIDE. Singapore, September 2. Tho Governor's yacht collided with and sank the surveying ship Waterwitch. Two of the hitter's crew are missing. PICNICKERS KILLED BY A CAR. Berlin, September 2. A brake failing to act, an electric car was derailed on an incline at Elberfeld and fell among some picnickers, eight of whom were killed and 31 injured, six seriously. A PAPUAN EXPERIENCE. Thursday Island, September 2. While a police, patrol partj, under Mr Burrows, Assistant-Magistrate, was returning down the Fly river, with prisoners charged witlb murder, cani.ibalism and minor offences, natives unexpectedly attacked the party with arrows. Four prisoners escaped. Several native police were slightly wounded, but Mr Burrows was unhurt. The party repulsed the attack. No serious trouble is expected. TIBET'S INDEPEN DEXCE. London, September 2. The Telegraph's Pekin correspondent says that the Government has rejected the British Tibet demands. Indian advices report that six (hundred 'Tibetans were killed or wounded in attempting to recapture Tschodling. a royal monastry near Lbassa, on August 13. THE BRITISH NAVY. London, September 2. Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at Dundee, said that the policy of the country was to keep the fleet in a state of unassailable superiority and efficiency. That policy would continue] under all Governments. PANAMA CANAL. Vienna, September 2. Tho Austrian press condemns America's attitude over tho Panama Canal, which, it says, jeopardises the development of international arbitration, especially if friendly countries like England and America will not accept tike Services of the Hague tribunal. Der Zeit thinks that European retaliation will result unpleasantly for America.