GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE RUBBER OUTRAGES. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Lisbon, February 26. M. Arana, director of the Putumayo Rubber Company, is journeying to England. Interviewed with regard to the atrocities, he said that they were grossly exaggerated by his enemies, who were wishing to exploit rubber. There were some cases of native illtreatment, for which he was not responsible. FRIEDMANN’S TUBERCULOSIS CURE. New York, February 26. The Government has ordered special tests of Dr. Friedmann’s cure for tuberculosis. Dr. Friedmann claims that it is a certain cure. He proposes to reveal his cure to the wbrld without remuneration. THE MARCONI WIRELESS DIS PUTE. London, February 26. Mr Samuel has informed the Marconi Company that he holds himself free to enforce his right against the company if they' terminate the con-| tract. A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Madrid, February 26. While the blowing up of rocks with dynamite at the harbour front at Gijon was in progress, debris fell among the spectators, and sixty were killed. PETROL’S UP! i I (Received 9.0 a.m.) Petrol in London is increased to 21d per gallon. MONKS OF BENEDICTINE. Thirteen monks of Caldey Island joined the Roman Catholic Benedictine Order. The younger members refused. The nuns of St. Bride’s, Mulfordhaven, all joined except two. AN EDITOR IN TROUBLE. (Received 11.25 a.m.) London, February 26. Cecil Chesterton, editor of the New Witness, was summoned at Bow Street Police Court for libelling Godfrey Isaacs, whom he accused of corruptly conspiring in the ' wireless contract with the Attorney-General and the Postmaster-General. The three were described as malefactors. MEASLES AND INFLUENZA. There have been widespread epidemics of measles and influenza in London. The supply of nurses line run out. Berlin, February 26. Thirty-five submarines have been completed. Fifteen additional will shortly be finished. A PARIS ACCIDENT. Madrid, February 26. At Gijon a charge of 3) tons of ex-| plosive, which was intended to level a hill to make a sea wall, was fired by gases which permeated the faulty clay, with the result that several ships were struck.