First Edition. GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 92, 25 April 1913, Page 6

First Edition. GENERAL CABLES.

PRINCE LUBECKI MURDERED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] St. Petersburg, April 23. Prince Ladislas Luhecki has been murdered in liis grounds. There is no clue to the perpetrator. MOONLIGHTERS. ' London, April 23. The Bishop of Killilloe denounced recent moonlighting 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 cornmitee refused to ratify the War Office’s expenditure of three million marks for the erection of a building for the Emperor’s military cabinet. It considered that the Wafr 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 ill hinting at the motive in the Baxter shooting case. FINED FOR KEEPING GAMING HOUSE. The two principals in a gaming house at Charing Cross Road were fined £250, and £IOO, or three months’ and six weeks’ imprisonment respectively. COUNTRYSIDE’S CRYING NEED Mr Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Agriculture at FerShorc, said the crying heed, in the Countryside was agricultural laborers’ cottages; 90,000 cottages were required within five years. The problem would require national financing. OPIUM HABIT IN FRENCH NAVY. Paris, April 23. !■; There is a great outcry against the opium habit in the navy, 163 dens existing at TouhmUS '•"> ' : : w ■' ~i j. • . I: ! I<' CAPTAIN ECKFORD’S-MURDERER •Tolio! tf;} jdioh at ■ (Received 10.20 a.m.) London, April 23. In the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey* in reply to Sir J. D. Rees, said he had no official information that the Persian troops adequately punished the tribesman who Was guilty of Captain Eckford’s murder. ENGLAND’S aarqj at. j j i iiftpiite l ; idbaMvor (.Received : ■ London,i April 23v , ;i St. George’s Dsty 'was widely 1 'fceleV brated. HosOs were gexierally worn. The Duke of Connaught attended service in St. Michael and St. George’s chapel at St;. Paul’s. Mr Thos. Mackenzie and representatives of other States attended the function at Stratford-on-Avon and assisted in hoisting the Dominions’ flags.

MARCONI ENQUIRY. Mr Archer Shoe, M.P., giving evidence before the committee, warmly denied Mr Godfrey Isaacs’ insinuations. He produced correspondence showing that ho declined to invest in the Poulspn syndicate, SIR J. G. WARD ON “INDIA.” ~ . (Received 12.33 a.m.) London, April 23. At a St. George’s banquet at the Hotel Cedi Sir J. G. Ward, in proposing the toast of India, paid a high tribute to the Civil Servibe, and referred to Lord Sydenham’s services. It was 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 South Africa and elsewhere, PRAYING FOR CHINA. London, April 23. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and Chul’ch Missionary Society have drawn up forms of prayer on behalf of China, to be read in all the chtirchfes on Sunday. The prayers exclude and direbt references to the spread of Christianity. , FATAL MINE EXPLOSION. (Received 1.20 p.m.) New YOrkj April 23.

An explosion occurred in a Cincinnati coal min© at Finbyville on the Monongahela river. Two are known to be dead aiid seventy missing. Twenty escaped by means of the ventilating fans; The missing are believed to be dead 1 , as the gas fumes are very thick. JACK JOHNSON FINED. (Received 1 p.m.) New York, Apl'il 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.