GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 38, 8 October 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WHITE SLAVES. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, October 7. A demonstration was held m the Lyceum Theatre in favour of the White Slave Traffic Bill. v - The Bishop ol London protested against amendments weakening the Bill. He said that live thousand girls wore required annually in a single great city. All male procurers should be thoroughly whipped, CHINA. —««■ssm London, October 7. The “Daily Hail’s” Pekin correspondent reports that the Franco-Bel-gian million sterling loan has been signed. The money will be utilised for the extension of railways in the North of China. RAMSAY MACDONALD AND LABOUR. Londoij, October 7. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, speaking at Bradford, said that it was no solution of the labour problem to uplift wages in order to uplift prices. Despite trade unions there was a bigger gulf between the man at the top and tne man at tho bottom than there was twelve or twenty years ago. Parliamentary machinery was bad, and it was necessary to decentralise Parliamentary authority and give the municipalities and Nationalists more power. WOOL. London, October 7. A poor selection was offered at the wool sales to-day, but the prices remain firm. COMMERCIAL. Silver 29 9-1 Gd. Wailii shares 32s Gd to 355, Talisman 37s Gd to 4.2 s Gd. Imports during the month increased by £3,505,233, and exports by £6,385,215; re-exports £216,469. OBITUARY. Obituary: Professor Walter Skeat. LAND TAX FAVOURED. Mr. Trevelyan, Yorkshire M.P., presided at a conference, which, by a large majority, carried a resolution in favour of taxation on land on a m-oper basis of rating instead of on industries. ' ELECTION CANDIDATE. Tho Scottish Miners’ Federation selected Mr, Smillie to contest Mid Lanark at the next election. ELECTROCUTED ON HONEYMOON (Received ,8.: 11,40, a.ra.) Rome, October 7. Professor Polacchi and 'his wife, while on. .their honeymoon, were electrOCifted- ahd burned 1 to death in bed. The fatality, was due to .switching an Electric light-' ! fiord around The metal bed-post, and contact ensuing with high tension wires. M.P.’S IN LUCK. , London. October 7. • An elderly Scottish lady has bequeathed £7600 between Messrs. J. W. Redmond and Keir Hardio, M.P.’s. A JEWELLERY BURGLARY. The premises of Messrs. Elkans, jewellers in Livornnol Street, were burgled and £4OOO worth of property was stolen.