SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 76, 4 August 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TREATMENT. [Bv Electric Telegraph — Copyright] [Sydney Sun Special Cable.] London, August 3. At the inquest on the girl named Stroud, aged seven, who died after Christian science treatment, the doctor in his evidence, said that she suffered from diphtheria, but if fhe had been treated by modern methods, would probably have recovered. The father gave evidence that in his opinion the noturo of the illness was a I false belief. The child appeared to | him to be suffering from mumps, and Ihe telephoned to a scientist, who bestowed distant treatment, and there Dvas immediate improvement. The scientist thereupon telephoned ' to cease the treatment, and the child became worse and died. The mother, in her evidence, said if the girl [had been worse after treatment, she would have called in a doctor to diagonise the case. The coroner asked if a doctor would have been allowed to treat the patient, and the witness said she was unable to say. The inquest was adjourned. PREHISTORIC MAN. The remains of a prehistoric tomb discovered at Forres, near the Moray Forth, Scotland, contained, it is' stated, a Brachycephalous man about sft tin long, dating perhaps 3000 B.C. LIEBL ON THE SOLDIERS. Johannesburg, August 3. Justice Weasels, presiding at a commission, severely censured a photographer for faking a picture of troops shooting a defenceless man outside the Club. It was, he said, a contemptible libel on the troops doing I their duty.

SPIRITUALISM EXTRAORDINARY

Rome, August 3. Professor Calderone, who has published a story of the Reincarnation, states that a doctor’s daughter appeared in a spiritualistic seance and informed her mother that she would be re-born on Christmas’ Day in the following year. At.the second seance she announced: “There will he two of ns, myself and another.” Or. (feistmas Day fourteen months later tvin girls ;>pn vbeaiing pn ihe fpoe three''raatks, identical )vitii 1 lid.mark* on the "deceased. sA ; year dater' than manifested exactly similar mortal and been attested to by nn me roue witnesses. —HIDEOUS--NIGHT NOISES. - -i : • - Paris, - August 2. The Prefect of Police Is campaigning against the street noises, which are murdering sleep. He states that heavy motor, drays loaded with stones and pig-iron are shaking the foundations of houses, and is insisting that rubber tyres must be used to reduce vibration, and that speed must not exceed seven and a-half miles an hour. Juggernaut tramways, rattling motor-omnibuses, sci'eeching sirens, cracking cabmen’s whips,and the hideous whistles of engines, have converted the city into an inferno.