GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 66, 26 March 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITAIN’S LIQUOR BILL. v ßy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association,! The estimated epxenditure on alcohol in the United Kingdom in 1912 decreased by £1,234,899 as compared with 1911. GENERAL STRIKE PROPOSED. Brussels, March 24. The Labour Congress has voted for a general strike to begin on April 14. THE KNOX INCIDENT. London, March 24. The North-Eastern Railway has collected £IO,OOO sterling in fines imposed on strikers over the Knox incident. ABDUCTED FOR HAREMS. Sydney, March 21. The| Indian Government issues a warning that it is no uncommon practice for Afghans'to deceive white women with falsi? stories of the magnificence of their homes to induce them to marry them and accompany them from Australia to Afghanistan, where they are promptly sold to the highest bidder and doomed for life to close imprisonment in a harem under barbarous conditions, becoming eventually miserable household slaves^ CALF LOVE AND TRAGEDY. St. Petersburg, March 21. Larinoff, a schoolbpy at Kietf, asked Sholjhim, a schoolgirl, to marry him. Colonel Glukovtzeff, a friend of Shokhim, persuaded her to reject him. Larinoff, believing that Glukovtzeff was a rival, stabbed him to death. He then proceeded to the girl’s house and fatally stabbed her. The police pursued him in the street and Larinoff committed suicide with a revolver.