Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 25, 4 June 1913, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

[Ly Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Delhi, June 3. The wife of a Brahmin at Lucknow, declaring that she has become suttee, set 'fire to her clothing as her busband’s body was borne to a burning ghat. The flames were extinguished. She then tried to throw horsell on tho funeral pyre, but was arrested. London, June o. Mr Griffith, Chief Justice of the Gold Coast, has arrived in London. Me has been conducting trials of a hundred natives belonging to the so-call-ed Leopard Society, for practising cannibalism. Mr Griffiths, speaking to a fellow passenger on the steamer Nigeria, states that he sentenced forty natives to be hanged, and many to deportation. St. Petersburg, June 2. The Anti-Semites in the Kalisz district incinerated eight inmates of a Jewish house. Jews in the neighbouring villages have been threatened with death, unless they quit. Soldiers have been sent to protect them. New York, June 3.

An aklermanic committee, investigating the police conditions, recommend the removal from office of Commissioner Waldo, on the ground of unfitness. The committee asserted that Mayor Gaynor upheld Commissioner Waldo in everything. Consequently reforms were impossible. • London, June 3. During a mimic attack by a flotilla of submarines upon battleships off the Nab lighthouse, the battleship Prince of Wales ran into 032, and cut away her conning tower and upper works. Both returned to Portsmouth for repairs. Nobody was killed. (Received 8.0 a.m.) Mr Balfour, at a meeting of the National Society, declared that the idea that religious subjects could be taught in one place and\ secular subjects in another, was erroneous. Education must organise, and the whole be controlled by the .churches, not education by the county councils.

Paris, June 3. The International Wdmeri’s Congress, Lady Aberdeen presiding, has opened. The Minister of the Interior welcomed six hundred delegates. St. Petersburg, June "3. The plague has broken out in the Persian border districts. Madrid, June 3. A waterspout caused widespread havoc at Elegonde, near Pamplona, manyf farms- were' I destroyed and bridges swept away, several people being killed. ; .