GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8, 14 May 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

ißy Electric Telegraph—OopyrightJ [United Press Association.] Rome, May 12. A solemn Te Deum was held at St. Peter’s in thanksgiving, for the Pope’s recovery. All the churches were illuminated, and immense crouds attended. M. Giolitti, the Premier, is favorable to gradual grants of votes to women, in consequence of the recent enfranchisement of 8,500,000 males. London, May 12. At the British . Socialist Party’s Congress at Blackpool, the disorderly demonstration against the executive was continued. The chairman of the Socialist Party (Mr Hyndman’s) received strong support. The Navy was hotly discussed. Mr Hyndman undertook to express his opinions in a private capacity. Mr Hyndman’s resolution was carried denouncing Mr Lloyd George and the Government for raising the Plimsoll line, thus dooming large numbers of seamen to death. A resolution to eject the chairman for insulting the delegates was negatived. The British Archaelogical School has discovered a large cemetery at Tarkhan, forty miles from Cairo, in which the burials are 7000 years old, revealing the custom of offering food to the dead. Members of the party also cleared over an acre of paths to the temple at Memphis. 1 A typhoon at Manila caused fiftyeight deaths and also great damage to property. Berlin, May 12. Two human legs were found in a building, and the head, trunk, and other parts were discovered in a parcel on the staircase of the Potsdam railway station. The victim is Otto Klaehn, a schoolboy. London, May 12. Lever Brothers’ issue of a million per cert pound accumulation shares at a shilling premium have been oversubscribed.

Running at Stamford Bridge, Harry Green broke the twenty miles’ amateur record in 2 hours 29 mins 30 sec. Lloyds lowered the fifty miles amateur record to 6hrs. 13min. 58sec. A bomb was found in the pavilion of the Limpsfield Tennis Club. The Midland'Railway has-been warned of a suffragette plot to wreck the express near Bradford. Berne, May 12. Over a hundred French deputies and Senators will attend the opening of the Pacificist Congress. Only thirtyfour Germans will attend, ;; -'t Hong Kong, May 12. ■ The Portuguese cruiser Adamastov is ashore 1 o'n Dumbell Inland. The British Otter "is’.standing by. The crew have been rescued. J New York, May 12. Dr. Sturm, associate of Dr; Friedmann, is claiming £20,000 as his share in the rights of the tuberculosis discovery. It is reported that Sturm knows % secret of tfte Friedmann, cure. < Ueqjmv ' ;•