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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 60, 16 July 1913, Page 5

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HOME AND FOREIGN MEWS AMERICAN GRAFT SCANDAL. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Sydney Sun Special Calls.] New, 1 ork, July 15.

It is reported that Stillwell, a prisoner at Sing Sing, revealed to Mr Whitman, the District Attorney-Gen-eral, a graft scandal implicating 150 Senators and Congressmen. He asks for a pardon as a reward for “squealing.” Mr Bryan declares that AngloAmerican arbitration has been blocked by the Senators’ clique.

THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP

Sydney,- July 15. Barry is paying £10(1 towards

Pearces’ expenses. The final deposits of £250 a-side and £SO to complete Pearce’s expenses

have been paid

WINDSOR CAST LI

London, July 15

The Windsor State Apartments have been reopened to visitors, and are being guarded by the police, their bags, sticks, and uihbrellas being removed. DESECRATING THE SABBATH. At a flying exhibition at Hull, there were ten thousand spectators on a Sunday. Some names were taken by the police with a view to an action under the Sunday Observance Act. THE ROYAL TOUR. Their Majesties visited Manchester, where twenty thousand children sang the National Anthem. Mr Samuel Royse, the Mayor, was knighted. The King and Queen have returned to London.

AUSTRIA’S DREADNOUGHT.

Vienna, July 15

Aii order has been given to place the second Dreadnought, the Tigetthof, in commission. She was launched in 1912.

SPEAKING THE TIME,

Berlin, July 15,

A clock which’ is being exhibited utilises a phonograph and speaks the time of day.

SYDNEY GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

Sydney, July 15

A movement has been started to induce the new Federal Government to end the litigation over Sydney Government House, by leasing or acquiring it as Commonwealth property.

THE ALL-RED ROUTE

London, July 15,

Tt is stated that a contract of over a million has been signed for the construction of a railway from Coollooney to the proposed new harbor at Blacksod Bay, in connection with the AllRed route via Halifax.

FOREIGN TROOPS

Paris, July 15

African and Asiatic troops figured for the first time in the 14th of July review at Longechamps. M. Poincairo presented them with colors.

LARGEST BRITISH WATERPLANE

(Received 9.5 a.m.) London, July 15,

The Codv wnterplane is the highest in England, the wines «-ing sixty feet acrosr.

“DEEDS MORE THAN WORDS”

Airs Pankhurst, in her speech from the navillion, declared that a defiant deed was of greater value than thousands of words, and that she was determined to do that deed.

KITCHENER UP OX “DEMOCRAT.”

Two bronze statues of Lord Kitchener in the uniform of a Field Marshall and seated on his horse, Democrat, have been cast. One has been erected at Calcutta and the other at Khartoum. LONDON’S POOR. The pauper population of London numbers 98,298. The Lord Mayor, at Wallingford, is opening a colony of unemployed to cost £25,300.

ROUND THE WORLD,

St. Petersburg, July 15

A conference of Round the World Traffic representatives at Moscow resolved to link up the direct passenger system of the world via Siberia and Canada. Steamship companies are participating, including the Cunard, Hamburg-American, Royal Mail, and Japanese lines, with supplementary routes for the last to Australia.

CHINESE REBELS

Peking, July 15

There are reports of fighting between the Government and the local forces of Kiangsi province with restlessness in the southern Yangtse.

THE PANAMA CANAL. New York, July 15

It is impossible to open the Panama Canal before October 1914, owing tr

the land slides in the Culebra Cut. The cost of the Canal when finished will he seventy-five millions sterling, which includes four millions for sanitation and fourteen hundred thousand for administration. DiSUNG UISHE I) LECTURERS. Mr Bryan, declaring that he is unable to live 2100 years, is starting a lecturing tour. Professor Jordan, of Stanford Uni* I versify, when lecturing on eugenics, declared that war spoiled the breed of 'men, who left their homes and were useless for breeding.

j WAR VESSELS DISARMED. St. Petersburg, July 16. | The Bulgarian war vessels which reT'ugcd at Sebastopol have been di»- ! armed.

TROUBLOUS MEXICANS

Mexico City, July 15

J Reports are current that a plot to assassinate Huerta, Blanquet. and I Felix Diaz was frustrated by the arrest of a Congressman and other persons. Several confessed.