Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 30, 28 September 1912, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH REVENUE

j (Bj Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) I (United Press Association.) (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, September 27. The Inland Revenue reports show that there are 28 incomes over' fifty thousand annually. Income tax is payable on 1015 million, whereof one hundred million is invested abroad Mr, Lloyd-George's increment value duty realised £6003 a year and undeveloped land £10,218. CONSCRIPTION IN AUSTRIA. Vienna, September 27. The Zeit newspaper states that Austria is retaining time-expired conscripts of two Army Corps until the end of November.

DOCTORS ON STRIKE

(Received 10.15 a.m.)

London, September 27

The strike of doctors against the Insurance Act is spreading, thirty-six having resigned from the friendly societies, in Essex and all are acting similarly in Birmingham. The Irish doctors have decided not to administer the Act. It is expected that by Monday 12,000 positions will be vacant.

TOTTENHAM COURT TRAGEDY. A foreigner residing at an hotel on Tottenham Court Road ran amok and shot two barmaids. One is dead. Ho rushed into the street and wounded three pursuers, one seriously. The man was arrested.

THE I.W.W

New York, September 27. Four thousand textile workers at Lawrence, Massachusetts, have again struck at the instance of the Industrial Workers of the World. The number idle is now twelve thousand. The trial at Lawrence of two men charged with implication in a strike murder early is pending and is causing great unrest, n FEAR OF THE JAP. Ottawa, September 27. Lord Stanhope, "interviewed at Toronto, said British Coluinbiai ought to guard against a Japanese invasion of the Pacific Coast, as the Japanese were.now looking for new colonies and must secure them in the Pacific.' v THE COCOA PRESS. ,(Received 11.20 a.m.)' /. . ; ' London, September 27. Rountree's have purchased five Birmingham papers belonging to the Midland Express Company. "THEIR OW"INSURANCE.' The General Federation of Trade Unions is preparing to launch .their own, insurance society on friendly society lines, and propose to pay benefits after six months' contributions. There Will be no attempt to make a profit. IN SPITE OF ORDERS. Card-room workers at the Oldham Mill have notified a strike owing to the owners refusing to compensate a girl injured while cleaning moving machinery in spite of orders to the contrary. The owners threaten an action for damages against individual strikerr, and the union.