GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 22, 24 January 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(Received 9.5 a.m.) London, January 23. The King will inspect the battleship New Zealand prior to its departure. Berlin, January 23. The ‘Frankfurter‘Zeitung’ says that the German Army Bill will provide for the training of alt fit for service, heretofore rejected as superfluous. This ■will largely increase the army’s peacestrength. A message from Washington states that Mr. W. C. Sickel, vice-president of the Hamburg-Amerika Company, has admitted that a shipping combine is being formed. The Clearing House Committee of the Transatlantic lines has agreed not to compete with European ports. The rates from America will be adjusted on a common level, according to the agreement pftevailing between the companies. To prevent unauthorised experiments, Dr. Friedmann has placed his tuberculosis cure at the disposal of the Public Health Department, says a Berlin cable. Four valuable pictures which were stolen from the National Art Gallery have been tracked by pieces, and a man has been arrested. Fortifications are being built on a large scale at Cromarty Firth, and it is believed these ■ will render it impregnable and give shelter to the larg est fleet. Two hundred and twenty-seven thou sand conscripts examined in France, 50 per cent, failed in elementary history, geography, and arithmetic. It is essential in military schools to relearn what is taught to children of twelve years of age. -* Premier Asquith informed a deputation that the Government would lay aside the interest on the London Ir an of three millions for the development and growth of cotton. It is believed that the burden on the British taxpayer would be inappreciable. The Brazilian 27,500 ton Dreadnought Riodejaneiro has been launched at Elswick. It has been stated that the next Home election in 1915 will be fought on Lloyd George’s finance, upon which the superstructure of social reform "must ttsfct r > f / Tr>7rnr'.u 1 " r.-.-.m The ‘Daily Graphic,’ which always deals prominently with defence questions, urges the construction of the sixth battleship.