Second Edition CABLE BREVITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 24, 21 September 1912, Page 6

Second Edition CABLE BREVITIES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, (United Press Association.) London, September 20.

The Eastern Telegraph Company reduces the press rate to India to 4c and to North Borneo to 6cl from October Ist.

The Pall Mall Gazette says the King has provisionally promised to open the acropolis in Pretoria in 1914. His visit includes Rhodesia. , Aeroplanists at Hendon state that Hansa’s flight was merely spectacular. A single aeroplane was able to destroy .several Zeppellins. Haig admits that aeroplanes failed to locate a- division of 12,000 men and horses, whose march General Grierson started in the darkness and concealed by hugging the hedgerows and, woods, and when the sound of aeroplanes was heard sought cover. Boxing at the Liverpool Stadium, George Mackness knocked out Alan Porter in eight rounds. Porter, who was taken to the hospital, is still unconscious. Mackness’has been arrested. \. The twentieth army dirigible Gamma Was returning from the manoeuvres when 1 the engine failed at Devizes and it fell. The dirigible was not totally wrecked. The crew jumped clear. Ottawa, September 20.

. Canadian manufacturers are urgng the Government to amend the tariffs in order to provide more complete protection for Canadian industries, particularly wool and steel, and, aid to shipbuilding on, the Pacific Coast :s also being urged. \ New York, September 20. Advices from Salt Lake City state that the Labour Federation is endeavouring to canse the strike of miners to spread to New Mexico, Orizona, and Nevada. In mine property in such an event six thousand additional men will he affected. Paris, September 20. Lall An in Godwin, a Cingalese student at Oxford, absconded with £4OOO worth of pearls belonging to a compatriot in , Paris. He gambled the proceeds at various European casinos and suicided.

Enghien Paoli, a Corsican bandit, is still uncaptured. He murdered his twenty-fourth victim out of revenge for those harbouring his rival, Sanguinetti.