GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 20 May 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

(Received 9.5 a.m.) Paris, May 19. 31. Caillaux, addressing the Radicals, said he was opposed to a three years’ system. It was undeniable that the international situation demanded further efforts, and more care was necessary in training the reserves. A home system of military, education of the young should be devised. Radical counter proposals aim at a thirty-months’ service with the incorporation of conscripts twice yearly. (Received 9 a.m.) Paris, May 19.

Socialist agitators organised a soldiers demonstration against Trial Service, and a major and lieutenant who remonstrated, were roughh handled. But they were rescued by civilians, who thrashed fifteen of their assailants. Cavalry finally disperser' the meeting. x (Received 8.5 a.m.) Berlin, May 19.

Them an Hopf, .or Hoff, .has confessed that he administered cholera germs to his third wife. In the meantime Hopf’s housekeeper died from typhus. (A cable on April 16 stated that Karl Hoff, formerly the world’s foils champion, has been arrested at Frankfort on a charge of poisoning two wives and attempting to poison a third. A quantity of cyanide of potassium and arsenic iind cultures of typhus and cholera bacilli were discovered in his house. AH the wives were heavily • insured, • the third for £4,000.) Vienna, May 20.

A hundred buildings, including several historical ones, were destroyed at Pressburg, which involved a great part of the old Jewish quarter. Panic stricken Jews refused to break the Sabbath to extinguish the fire Until the Rabbi granted a dispensation - . Three hundred were' injured. St. Petersburg, May 19. A hundred and eleven May Day demonstrators were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. London, May 18. A naval boat, with twenty bluejackets from the torpedo flotilla, capsized at Granton, and seven were drowned. The men drowned on the Granton, belonged to the destroyer Itchen. A heavy sea swamped the boat. New York, May 19. Arthur Cavil), the Australian swimmer, dived in a sack from a bridge on the Lewis River at Seattle. He struck a buoy and was injured and nearly drowned. He lies in the hospital in a serious condition. (Received 9.45 a.m.l London, May 20. The court martial on Captain Guy Gaunt has commenced. The prosecution alleges that the Centurion’s high speed caused the sinking of the Derna.