GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 74, 4 April 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

MANHOOD SUFFRAGE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. [United Press Association.] (Received 9.20 a.m.) Brussels, April 3. (Extensive preparations are being made for a general strike on the 14th hist., owing to the Government’s refusal of manhood suffrage. Large shops are providing members of staffs with revolvers, and many places are closing. People everywhere are stocking candles, fuel and food. FIVE SEAM FA' DROWNED. Paris, April 3. The five sailors who were drowned at Toulon fell overboard from the submarine Turquoise. GAMBLING. AS A MAGNET. Paris, April 3. Despite the prohibition against games of hazard, a Franco-Belgian group paid £B2OO for the lease of a gambling saloon at Ostend during the summer season as a magnet. An Ostend casino proprietor is fitting out a steam yacht for gambling purposes outside the three-mile limit RESTRICTING JAP IMMIGRATION (Received 10.45 a.m.) Ottawa, April 3. A Bill restricting Japanese immigration passed its second and third readings. Power is reserved to the Dominion Government to restrict immigration according to ordinary regulations, not depending; as hitherto, on the Japanese own regulations