GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 27 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE CHINESE REPUBLIC

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright (United Press Association.) Pekin, December 25. Replying to a British Note asking for an agreement regarding Tibet precedent to a recognition of the Republic, China cites Article 2 of the 1906 agreement. She adds that she has no intention of converting Tibet into a Chinese province, hut intends to preserve traditional government. It is needless to negotiate for a new treaty. A DISASTROUS FIRE. London, December 25. By a fire in a jute warehouse at Dundee, damage to the 1 ' extent of £IOOO was done. A wall of the waresouse collapsed, demolishing a stableman’s house. The mother had just filled their stockings for the children and had returned to the kitchen. The children are still buried in the ruins. The firemen rescued the mother. The four bodies of the children were recovered later. The little ones had been suffocated. A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY. London, December 25. A tragedy occurred at Tedmqrden. Maggie llohden, daughter cf a jeweller, kissed her brother under the mistletoe and ran away. Her brother playfully pointed a pistol at her, believing it to be unloaded, and fired. The bullet penetrated his sister’s head, killing her. A FAMILY INCINERATED. London, December 25. Alfred Scope and his wife and three children were incinerated in a tenement fire at Islington. The other occupants had narrow escapes, but were rescued by the brigade. STEAMERS IN COLLISION.

New York, December 25. The steamer Merrin collidedjn Lower Delaware Bay with the Oceanic, hound for Narvik. Both were badly damaged, hut were able to return to port. One hundred and fifty-five passengers were aboard the Merrin.

SNOW FIGHT IN WALL STREET

New York, December 25

Gales are raging on the eastern coasts and scores of vessels have been compelled to run for refuge. The blizzard struck New York, and the Wall Street brokers engaged in a snoa fight on the floor of the exchanges Hundreds of the wealthiest members were engaged, and finally a huge snow man was built. SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS. Capetown, December 25. A conference, attended by Mr. Fischer, General Hertzog, and leading Free Staters, at Bloemfontein, agreed not to spit the Ministerial party. DISASTROUS GALES. London, December 25. There have been disastrous gales in many districts. A factory chimney collapsed at Lincoln, and crashed through a smithy, injuring four persons. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. Washington, December 25. A special session of Congress will he held in March to revise the tariffs downwards. A LINER ASHORE. New York, December 25. The liner Turrialba went ashore m a blinding snowstorm at New < Jersey Sixty passengers left in the lifeboats, and were subsequently rescued. PRINCE YAMAGATA ATTACKED. London, December 24. An attempt was made to assassin ato Prince Yamagata, hut he was unhurt. The man suicided. A DETERMINED CRIMINAL. Tokio, December .25. The man who attempted to assassinate Prince Wamagata had a concealed dagger and a dose cf morphine. He was captured as he approached Varaagata.