GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 71, 16 November 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

UNSPORTSMANLIKE. SPRINGBOKS’ ENGLISH TOUR. London, November 5. At a dinner at which the South African footballers were entertained at the close of the Northampton match yesterday, a strong protest was made against what was declared the unsportsmanlike treatment of the Springboks by the International Rugby Board. It was considered that as the visitors were not out to make money they should not have had to pay sightseeing and similar expenses. “(A DANGEROUS SHAM.” THE TERRITORIALS’ TRAINING. London, ovember 5. Commenting upon the criticisms elicited by Lord Roberts’ recent speech at Manchester in support of universal military training, the “Observer,” in a leading article, holds up as an example the Balkan States’ system of compulsory service. The “Observer” says that it is tired of the softsoap lavished by those who shirk duty upon those who do it. The majority of the territorials arc pampered and cajoled under conditions that are as unlike those of real soldiering as it would be possible to find them.

“The best service,” acids the paper, “that the earnest, soldiers in the ranks of the territorials could render their country would be to resign from what they hold to be a dangerous sham. Then we should he compelled to adopt universal service.”

ROOMING-HOUSE MURDER. WIFE’S ALLEGED CONFESSION. Chicago, November 6. Another startling development lias occurred in connection with the murder of Sophia Singer, the single young woman who was brutally done to death on Tuesday last in a Chicago roominghouse. It is reported that the actress Beatrice Ryall, who with her husband, Charles Conway, a professional high diver, was arrested on suspicion of lining implicated in the crime, has confessed that Conway killed Miss Singer by striking her on the head with a brass door knob. Ryall was subsequently confronted by Charles Worthen, the murdered woman’s fiance, whereupon both broke down, and wept. When Mrs Conway accused her husband of the crime, the latter told his wife that he needed money to enable him to have an operation performed on his injured, leg. THE CZAR’S HEIR. TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LEG, London, November 7. Bulletins which have been issued as to the health of the Czarevitch are very pessimistic. Little doubt exists that the-patfent is suffering from an organic defect in the blood, and also tuberculosis of the eg. 'THE PORT OF THE WORLD. IMPORTANCE OF NEW YORK.

London, -November o. One of the Paris papers, the “Eclair,” reports that observations in connection with the'firing of the new submarine shell showed that the damage done was tremendous. One shell pierced the armour of a battleship, destroying everything in its way. ANTICS OF AN APE. FUN AT THE LONDON ZOO. London, November 6. The attendants at the London Zoological Gardens had a lively experience with an orang-outang that escaped from its cage on Sunday night. The animal dashed from the apehouse, throwing flower-pots, bits of wood, iron bolts, and other missiles in all directions. The staff made desperate efforts to catcli it, but the creature, finding itself close pressed,broke through one of the windows and climbed on to the roof.

After a while it re-entered the house by means of the window, which was then Iroarded up to prevent it from getting out by that way again. The ape, however, was quite equal to the occasion, and finally emerged from its place of captivity by breaking through the roof. It then made its way to a tree, up in the branches of which despite a dense fog that prevailed at the time, it made a nest. Here it was allowed to remain until morning, - when, with the«aid of fire extinguishers, it was dislodged and driven back to its cage. THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LIBERIA TURK. THIS YEAR’S AWARD. London, November 6. The Nobel prize for literature this year will probably bo awarded to the well-known French author, M. Anatole France. There are altogether five prizes, each worth about £BOOO, that are awarded annually under the provisions of the will of Dr. Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swedish engineer and chemist, inventor of dynamite. The achievements for which the prizes are given are the most important discoveries or improvements in (I) physics, (2) chemistry, and (3) physiology; M) for the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency in the field of literature, and (5) for the best effort towards the fraternity of nations and the promotion of peace. The famous litterateur to whom one of this year’s

prizes will probably bo awarded writes the finest French prose of any living author. His meet notable works arc “Le Crime do Sylvester Bonnard,” “Balthazar,” “L’Etui de Nacfre,” “Le Jardin d’Epicure,” “L’Orme dn Mail,” and “M. Bergerot a Paris.”