SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10, 12 September 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

IRELAND'S DAY OF PRAYER.

By Eleotkio Telegraph—Copyright]

Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables

(Received 8.0 a.m.) London, September 11

Tho Presbyterian Moderator of Ireland has issued a letter to Ministers to observe the 28th inst. as a day of humiliation and prayer in view of the solemn circumstances in which their church and country are placed. Tho letter adds: "The threatened crisis is of a most serious character, which approaches nearer as the political situation develops."

BRITAIN'S POOR RELIEF.

A Parliamentary paper shows that tho expenditure for tho first half ol 1.912 in poor relief amounted to €7,239,368, an increase of £250,131 over the corresponding half in the previous year.

THE OLYMPIA FUND

The sum of £7OOO has been subscribed to tho Olympia Fund.

MAUD ALLAN, THE DANCER.

Calcutta, September 11

The Times of India and the Bombay Chronicle can see no objection to Miss Maud Allan's visit to India.

DARING BANK ROBBERY.

London, September 11

Scotland Yard. is searching for the men implicated in the robbing of the L'«ank of Copenhagen. Before it closed, two German-speaking men entered and barred the entrance by boring a gimlet into the door to prevent its opening from the outside. They terrorised the two clerks with loaded revolvers, tied their hands and legs with string and took £SOOO. They put the coins in a handbag, carried the clerks to the cellar and locked them in and then l?i't the bank by a back door.

BOXING CURE IN PHYSICAL CULTURE.

London, September-11

Father Vaughan, of Liverpool, commenting on the small stature of a Lancashire lad, urged the corporation* of Liverpool and Manchester to lool; after the physical well-being of their He recommended that al! lads should be taught boxing.

PARISIAN POLICE SCANDALS.

Paris, September 11. A preliminary enquiry into the police scandals justifies cases being sent tc the Criminal Court. There are fresh accusations against the plain clothes police for arresting youths for gambling on the streets, and also seizing two innocent passers-by, whom they maltreated while conveying them tc tho watchhouse.

THE BANNED PLAYS

London, September 11

Mr Maxwell, interviewed on thr -ensured plays, said that the mistake of the censor consisted in taking iso lated scenes and failing to see tlv main drift of his book. The actior vas all against the spirit of the age People were no longer afraid of tin truth.