GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 20 May 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

i SUBMARINE DISTURBANCE, [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.! Sydney, May 19. A Dutch steamer from tho east reports a severe submarine disturbance olf the south-east coast of Java. Tho subsidence of tho sea’s bottom caused nearly all the Sudoetung Islands to disappear. Some are mere sand banks, and others have small portions above tho sea. j FATAL MINE EXPLOSION. New York, May 19. Explosions wrecked the Ogara Coni | Company’s Imperial mine at Belly Valley. Two men are dead, three fatally, wounded, and sixteen remain | entombed. Rescuers are attempting I to extricate them.

THE MARCONI SHARES. London, May 18. There is a movement afoot among 1 stock-brokers for concerted action to learn who is responsible for tho coup in American Marconi A When the pubI tic was first admitted to purchase at I bos, over six hundred thousand shares were tied up at lower prices, r, ■■; ' \:: r ‘ <■ : ■■- »; ■- 1 ■■ d 1 THE RESULT OF A STRIKE, i Ottawa, May UU ■ A mob at Halifax surrounded the street! cai's and wrecked a number. They attacked, the- strike-breakers. The police suppressed tho disorders. Many were injured. > ; .. • , .. • .Peking, May -IS. Shanghai newspaper ' that local gentry and farmers W este :■ n o izmwil in .the' ijiscusg] Hie,.matter, ! '' r h€^l&hpom ; ilife', : '-fire the’ building and sixty seven were inceuerated.

London, May,' 18Burglars blew’up a safe at Tattersail’s Club containing a large sura of bookmakers’ Saturday’s winnings., The explosion aroused the inmates apd the robbers escaped bootless. A dispute over the ownership of the acting rights of- Baron Henri' Rothschild's coming play,. “Croesus,”, led to lively scenes in the Garrick Theatre. Hansen, an American, obtained an interim 'injunction claiming the ' sole light's, and that he was the employer of Arthur Bourchier. Hansen was forcibly ejected by Bourchier’s staff. Jlouiyhier securing a discharge of the injunction invaded the theatre and evicted the Han senile s. Chairs were used ris weapons, arid several were injured on each side. Hansen was arrested for threatening Bourchier with violence.

While Mr Bonar Law was playing golf at Malalnde, Ireland, with Web r ster, Dean of the Chapel Royal, Dublin, Webster dropped dead. The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie "(High Commissioner for New Zealand) in r cerviewed; said it was possible that the. Overseas Governments might be induced to conjointly establish a.train.--Ing farm in England whete immigrants would be made acquainted with the Overseas’ agricultural conditions.

, , , Delhi,; May 18. . Nineteen ijejspcctable Bengalis been arrested at Calcutta for being connected with a conspiracy to wage .vyar against the King. The Bengali Press declares that the arrests caused a tremendous sensation. Vienna, May 18. A fire occurred at Presshui'g and 8000 people are homeless. A fireman and a child perished. Many were injured. Berlin, May s 18. Incendiary fires destroyed tiro .big timber yards at Lubeck and also a Finnish ship. As The result of the elections' to the Lower House in the Prussian Diet, the Conservative and Centre Alliance retain an overwhelming superiority, ■ The Government of the Alsace Lorraine has applied to the Federal Council for; powers to enable the Statthalter Council to suppress pro-French associations and exclude French newspapers and books. Paris, Maf 18. ■ The Bill to provide army expenditure does not mention how the thirty-two i millions sterling required to meet the ! increased personnel of new armaments is to be raised. Vienna, May 18. Fifty thousand reservists have disj handed, but the reservists in BosniaHerzegovina and Dalmatia retained i their colours.