Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 91, 24 April 1913, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

PRINCE LUBECKI MURDERED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [■United.Press Association.] (St. Petersburg, April 23. Prince Ladislas Lubecki has been murdered in his grounds. There is no clue to the perpetrator. MOONLIGHTERS. ■ LoAdOn, 'April 23. 'The Bishop of Eillilloe denounced recent raohnlighiing at Clare, and decided to excommunicate offenders when discovered. GERMAN ARMAMENTS. Berlin, April 23. The Budget Committee adopted the Centre Party’s motion to investigate the. armament scandals. The cofn--V mitee refused to ratify the War Office’s expenditure of three million marks for the. erection 6f a building for the Emperor’s military cabinet. It considered that the War Office had violated the Reichstag’s prerogatives. NEWWSPAPER HEAVILY FINED. (Received 9.40 a.m.) London, April 23. The Daily Mail was fined £IOO for contempt, in hinting at the motive in the Baxter shooting case. FINED FOR KEEPING GAMING 1 HOUSE. The two principals in a gaming house at Charing Cross Road Wore fined £250, and £IOO, or three months’ and six weeks’ imprisonment respective-. iyCOUNTRYSIDE’S CRYING NEED Mr Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Agriculture at POrshore, said the crying need in the countryside was agricultural laborers’ cottages; 90,000 cottages were required i within five years. The problem would require national financing. OPIUM HABIT IN FRENCH NAVY. Ba,tis, April 23. There is a gfeat outcry against the opium habit in the navy, 163 dens existing at Toulon. CAPTAIN EOKFDRD’S MURDERER. (Received 10.20 a.m.) II IP In the HoiiAe ofComtaoris, Sir Edward Grey, in reply f .to» ‘Sir J. Df Rees, said he had no official information that the Persian troops adequately punished the tribesman who was guilty of Captain EckfSr l ß’|i Sflul’der. ENGLAND’S PATRON SAINT.»■ CJMG' .vvf. U-> 1 Londopj April 28,.. . St. Georg’s was .widely celebrated. Roses, were generally worn. The Duke of Connaught attended service in St. Michael and St. George’s chapel at St. Paul’s. Mr Tlios. Mackenzie and representatives of cither States attended the function at 'Stratford-on-Avon , .and assisted in hiiisting the Dominions’ flags, MARCONI ENQUIRY. Mr Archer Slice, M.P,j giving evidence before the conimlttee, warmly denied Mr G&Mrey femes’ insinuations. He jteodficed correspondence 1 showing ttiat' he declined to invest in the Poplsen syndicate.

SIR J.. G. WARG ON “INd/A.”

(Received 12:33 a.hi.) London, April 23. At a St. George’s banquet at the Hotel Cecil Sir J. G, Ward, in proposing the toast of India, paid a high tribiibe to the Civil Service, and referred to Liard Sydenham's services. It ttas necessary, he said, for the Dominions to be sympathetic with the Indian standpoint, when dealing with a difficult problem like the treatment of Indians in Sbuth Africa and elsewhere. PRAYING FOR CHINA.

London, April 23. The Sbdety for the Propagation of the Gospel and Church Missionary Society have drawn up forms of prayer on behalf of China, to he read in all the churches on Sunday. The prayers exclude and direct references to the spread of Christianity. FATAL MINE EXPLOSION. (Received 1.20 p.m.) New York, April 23. An explosion occurred in a Cincinnati coal mine at Finbyville on the Monongahela river. Two are known to be dead and seventy missing. Twenty escaped by means of the ventilating fans. The missing are believed to be dead, as the gas fumes are very thick. JACK JOHNSON FINED. (Received 1 p.m.) New York, April 23. Jack Johnson was fined 1000 dollars for concealing jewellery with the object of avoiding Customs duty. A necklace worth 2000 dollars was found on him.