GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 77, 8 April 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

GERMAN SOCIALISTS AND THE ARM t BILL. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Associar T oN j Berlin, April 7. Sixty-one Socialicf meetings in Berlin yesterday protested against- the Army Bill. FROZEN MEAT IN FRANCE. Paris, April 7, The president of the Chamber of Commerce has announced that it has been resolved to set aside a portion of the new premises in Paris for Australian business. The Chamber is endeavouring to secure the abolition of the differential duty against Australian meat as compared with Argentine. WRECK OF A BARQUE. New York, April 7. The barque Aline grounded at Astoria, and while being towed off into deep water she capsized, and 22 persons were drowned.

A HUNGER STRIKE. Paris, April 7. Dieudonne, the motor bandit, has begun a hunger strike. CHINESE AFFAIRS. London, April 7. The Daily Telegraph’s Pekin correspondent says that diplomists consider the intention of the United States Government to recognise the Republic of China is premature, and will complicate the general position. It has transpired that the provinces have quietly absorbed the Salt Gabelle machinery into the provincial taxation, destroying the nation’s direct control. SINKING OF A SUBMARINE. (Received 8.0 a.m.) t St. Petersburg, April 7. The submarine Minoya sank off Liban, and an hour and a half elapsed before she was raised, when the crew found were unharmed. DISORDERLY DEPUTIES. Vienna, April 7. Zocharias, a Deputy, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment, and Hoffman and Seek, also Deputies, received a fortnight at Budapesth for participating in disorders in the Hungarian Parliament. Four were acquitted.