SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12, 15 September 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

HAYASHI'S REMINISCENCES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. (Received 8.0 a.m.)

London, September 14

Mr Valentine Ciiiroi (Director of the foreign department oi' the Times) affirms that tliere is nothing novel or sensational in- Viscount ELayashi's reminiscences. • The negotiations were fully known to those in close touch with the international position. One section of the Japanese court favored an alliance with Russia, and another section -preferred Britain. What was less known to the public is that towards the close of the Boer War. Germany was disposed to seek a, rapprochement with Britain, but only on terms which would have involved Britain in heavy responsibilities in Europe, Africa and America, without involving Germany in an.v corresponding responsibilities in Asia. German statesmen always affected to suspect that Britain wanted to use Germany as her sword against Russia.

THE WORLD'S WHEAT SUPPLY

London, September 14

At the British Association, Professor Dixon said it was clear the available proportion of the world's wheat supply from extensive sources had been reached. We .must depend for the future upon intensive farming with its greater demand for labor. Two hundred and forty-two millions of acres were at present under wheat, and the area might be increased to three hundred millions. Thus the earth might finally be able to feed permanently one thousand millions wheat-eaters. More intensive cultivation would cause greater equalisation in the distribution of the popnatioa. EASY COME, EASY CO. Vienna, September 1-1.

A Russian laborer who unexpectedly inherited £62,500 immediately lived in the most expensive manner at St. Petersburg, keeping a yacht and race horses. Within a year not one jKmny was left. He gave a great revel, and then applied on the following day and obtained a job as a crossing sweeper at £3 per month.

LAUGHTER AS AN ANTIDOTE

London, September. 14

At the British Association meeting Dactpr' 'McDou'gall, of Oxford, submitted a new theory of laughter. Hi argued that laughter was primarily

and fundamentally an antidote oi sympathy. Sympathetic tendencies .vere of the first importance for so rial life. It was a. serious disadvantage if each man had tosuffer all those minor pains from which his fellows ailed. The culminative effect jf many slight pains would seriously lower vitality; hence social habits required an antidote or preventive tc

these sympathetic pains, Naturt therefore created laughter as a pro tective reaction against'theim.

A TAX ON MARRIAGES,

Berlin, September 13

Parliament has imposed a tax o five marks on marriages, the proceed, . u o go to the midwives' fund.

MOTOR ARTILLERY FOR BRITAIN. London, Septemher 13. After the manoeuvres at Salisbury the War Office' proposes to try whether it is possible to employ motors instead of horses to draw artillery.

A SPANISH CONSPIRACY.

Lisbon, September 13

Great excitment has been caused by the arrest of five conspirators. A oacknge containing a Monarchist's rrift to King Manoel lias been detained. The people expected it to be examined publicly. When the Customs refused there was a violent uproar, necessitating the intervention of the military and police.