GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 97, 28 August 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

INTER-TRAVEL. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press absoo ar■;<*.>’.) London, August 27. A Franco-British Travel Union has been established to promote reciprocal travel and mutual knowledge. It will hold its first congress in London in September.

A FLOATING DOCK. London, August 27. The Admiralty has invited designs for a large floating self-contained fac Itory for the new base at Cromarty, capable of executing all kinds of re pairs to warships without dry docking, and including a foundry and othei shops operated electrically from a tur bine station in the mulerbody below, while the superstructure will be : permanent habitation for LIU officers and men.

MAIL TRAIN STOPPED. Vienna, August 27. Fourteen armed youths, pulling ar {Harm cord, stopped a mail train at Lemburg. The postal authorities frustrated an - attempt to enter the van. The aggresso/s, firing revolvers, shattered the windows and escaped to the adjacent forest.'

A NEVADA CLOUDBURST. New York, August 27. A cloudburst caused serious damage at Ely, Nevada. One man wa: drowned and a number had narrow escapes. FACTORY HANDS KILLED. London, August 27. The boiler at a steel works in'Leeds' exploded. Four men were killed an: 16 injured. A SUBMARINE’S EXPLOIT. London, August 27. A submarine ''belonging to dee flotilla, with a view to testing inefficiency of the shore defences of tin Firth of Forth, where the naval dock yard is being built, passed the war ships anchored' at the Forth Bridge eluded the batteries at Inchkeith, am. crept into Rosyth. The authentic at the new naval station were unawar, of the visit until apprised after’ th submarine’s return to Dundee. INTERCOLONIAL CONGRESS. Brussels, August 27. The Minister for the Colonies wel coined the delegates to the Interna, tional Colonial Congress. TRADE WITH SOUTH AFRICA. London, August 27. A Blue Book states that in 1912 tin United Kingdom’s share of the im port trade with South Africa was 6 per cSnt. It draws attention to in creasing foreign competition. PASSE NG ERS ’ RIG HTS. Paris. August 27. The Court at Laon decided that i jassenger reserving a seat on a trail >y placing an article thereon was en titled to the seat, though, be tern coracily quits the compartment. A HUGE DOCK. (Received 11.0 a.in.) Singapore, August 27. The King’s dock, which is the larg -at east of Suez, has- been, opened. I s capable of accommodating tic Myinpic. THE PUTUMAYO ATROCITIES. (Received 11.0 a.m,) Lima, August 27. Twenty-three warrants have been ■sued for the arrests of persons sus >ected of complicity in the Putumayo itrocitiess

GERMAN WAR CENTENARY. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright' .’imes—Sydney Sun Special Cables Berlin, August 26. The Sovereign Princess of Germany and representatives of the free owns, celebrated Kalheim at the ccnenary of the war of liberation. There vas an imposing assemblage of 370,100. The Kaiser said: “Our strength •ests upon our unison and unity for uir nation. There, can be no slackenrig- of effort if there is a desire to laintaih our lofty place.”