GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 21, 23 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

OVERSEAS RECIPROCITY

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

Ottawa, January 22

The Australian-Canadian reciprocity correspondence was tabled in the House. Mr Tudor said that Australian customs would bo welcomed. Mr Foster assured him of a cordial reception in Australia. Every arrangement would he made for the fullest discussion of the trade agreement. Mr Foster expects to first visit New Zealand, arriving in Australia at the end of March, and remaining until August.

THE LEPER MASSACRE,

Shanghai, January 22

The Governor of Nankin was responsible for the massacre of the lepers. He drove men, women and children into a pit, where a number were shot and the rest burnt alive. The same governor three and a half years ago collected a hundred lepers at Fungehow on a pretext of distributing food, and slaughtered them.

THE THAMES FORESHORE

London, January 22

It is proposed to reclaim the Thames foreshore on the south side, between Southwark Cathedral and Westminster Bridge by constructing a King George Embankment, costing £1,000,000.

THE PUTUMAYO ENQUIRY

(Received 8.30 a.m.) London, January 22

Mr Read, director of the Putumay > Rubber Company, in giving evidence admitted that the payment of £21,400 in the company’s accounts was for repressing the Indians; also there were items for ransoming persons and keeping the Indians prisoners. The Chairman of the Committee said the accounts showed that the Indians were valued like slaves at £lO apiece. Witness declared that he had not examined the accounts, and could nor state what had become of the book-!, which had disappeared. MARCONI’S RIGHTS. The ’Manchester Guardian’ states that until India and the self-govern-ing Dominions who are parties to the contract have jointly agreed to wa vs their rights, Marconi cannot bo released. (Received 11.35 a.m.) W. R. Lawson, financial journalist, in his evidence, said that instead of purchasing the Marconi wireless at a fair price, the Government by agreement placed the Post Office in the hands of patent exploiters;-''which had struck the death-blow to British progress. With regard to long-distance wireless negotiations being carried on by the secretary, not a single independent authority had been consulted

AUSTRIA AND EMIGRATION,

(Received 9.15 a.m.)

The Canadian Pacific Company ha /e secured a concession from Austria to establish an emigration service between Trieste and the Dominion, and are chartering vessels to supplement their own ships in view of a full service in the spring.

PILGRIMS OVERWHELMED BY

FLOOD

(Received 11.35 a.m.) Sunkim, January 22

A caravan of Indian pilgrims at Elhamra, midway between Medina and Zambo, were overwhelmed at midnight by a sudden mountain flood, and 350 wore drowned.

A SOLDIER PARDONED

(Received 12.10 p.m.) Madrid, January 22

The Government has pardoned Pablo Fernandez, a Protestant soldier, who was esntenced to six months’ imprisonment for refusing to kneel during Mass, and has issued an order to prevent a similar incident.