GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 77, 8 April 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

ACTIVE VOLCANOES. Rome, April 7. Mounts Etna, Vesuvius, and Stromboli are active. THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE RAID. (Received 10.0 a.m.) London, April 7. In connection with the Knightsbrdge gaming raid, Basile, an Italian, was fined £250 or ordered to be deported. Poole, Basilo’s partner in the manager ment, was fined £IOO or two months’ imprisonment, while others received minor penalties. THE U.S.A. TARIFF. (Received 10.55 a.rn.) Washington, April 7.' Developments in the tariff question indicate that a bitter controversy is pending. Business interests are crowding into Washington to lay their case before the Senate, claiming that twenty per cent reduction in wages throughput the country will be inevitable if the programme is carried out. President Wilson has decided to submit a single Bill containing a whole revision of the scheme, despite strong opposition by Democratic Senators, who are favouring a schedule by schedule revision. FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION Vienna, April 7. Four persons were killed and live seriously injured in a collision between a passenger and a goods train at Ogulia. i- 1 FRENCH NAVAL ...CREDITS. (Received 11.10 a.m.) Paris, April 7. The Government is introducing, supplementary, naval credits for .twenty million, pounds, to lie, spent over ten years. Those, include three extra battleships, thus giving all divisions four battleships.