SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 77, 5 August 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS GOOD FOR THE MIXERS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Sydney Sun Special Cable.] London, August 4. The Durham Conciliation Board have raised miners' wages three and a quarter per cent. THE DYING LORDS. In a letter, Lord Malmesbury states: "The Lords are dead or dying through a powerful anaesthetic administered in the form of the Parliament Act. The might of a nation whose constitution has been the model ideal of the civilised peoples of the world is being rotted by an institution which has been the wonder and envy of the rising democracies for ages. No healthy body politic is safe from tho . knife of the ruthless Socialist surIgaon."

LIFE-SAVING INVENTION. An inventor of a life guard for motor 'busses, consisting of a steel wire, submitted in the trials to be thrice knocked down by vehicles proceeding at a fast pace. He escaped with slight abrasions, and claims that tho invention is a success. THE DENTAL PROFESSION. In an address at a conference of Dental Associations at Cambridge, the President declared that the profession was attacking with a scourge the dental diseases at their inception, removing the most prolific source of bodily degeneration. "WOMAN'S RIGHTFUL POSITION." , New York, August 4. Professor Starr, of the University I of Chicago, declared that the present attempt of woman to press herself | forward was harmful to the human i race, and it would continue until man j resolved to restore females to the position of inferiority to which they lightly belong. "The presence of women 8 in accupations monopolised for men," ho says, "is unnatural, and i indicates a racial •decline," \ FRANCE AND GERMANY. Paris, August 4. j In tlie) Senate $ Baron Constant, in opposing the Army'Bill, condemned ' . the '. Glrmkn military I policy in view of domestic and foreign dangers with [which Germany was confronted. It; ; j was- unlikely,- ■he- said, ■ that- she would . .. • j resort to aggression. There was no I need for France to follow Germany I with blortted-v-iirmaments. % k "*<t»,.

WOMEN DOCTORS. London, August 4. \ : Wji|j reference to the admission of ( seven women to the .College of 'Surgeons it is stated that the number I of women doctors has doubled in the I last decade. The supply isi yet coni siderably short of the demand. , ,1,1 ■ MURDER AND SUICIDE. At the inquest on Tom Gallon's brother, Tom Gallon gave evidence that he had not seen his brother for ton I years. He was always in monetary difficulties. A verdict was returned I that he murdered his wife and child, and then committed suicide. COMPULSORY TRAINING. i Lord Methuen, speaking at Chester, ' said that he believed that there was no opposition in England to compulsory training of cadets. A THIEF'S EXCUSE. A thief who snatched a handbag at Hampstead, when arrested stated that he was doing a cinema picture. He was released and escaped. A NEW MARRIAGE LAW.

New York, August 3. I A laAv has been enforced in Pensylvania requiring a couple to present a medical certificate of their physical fitness before marriage. ( I i i j THE PENALTY FOR SPEAKING. Rome, August 2. Signers Leoncavallo. Mascagni and Puccini, composers; Caruso and Leonoi, tenors: and Mugnone, Rerafin and Galeffi, conductors, are staying at Montecatini and have formed an anti-musical society. The penalty for speaking in a mustic theatre will be expulsion. ATTACKED BY THE MOORS. Tangier, August 3. The house of an Englishman was atI tacked by Moors and his Spanish servants killed. FOOD IN A FRENCH PRISON. A hundred convicts at Saint Denis. discontented with their food, mutinied.' [They overpowered the -guard 'and '' V'larch'pd to the. Law Courts and in- ! formed the Public Prosecutor of theirV j grievances. They "were .marched back •!'to"prison. ': ■. ' . ~' ' ' ."' .