SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 17, 20 September 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

FRENCH ARMY MANOEUVRES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] I'ijies—Sydney Sun Special Cables.

(Received 8.0 a.m.)

Paris, September 19

At the army manoeuvres, Chasseurs tried to capture the colours of a line regiment with bayonets fixed on both sides. Officers who rushed between were overturned and trampled

upon, and narrowly escaped death. The colours were torn. Many wore injured by butt-end blows.

SHOOTING IN A CASINO.

Paris, September 19

The manager of a San Sabastian Casino was shot dead by n discharged employee in the presence of 1000 people.

"A POLITICAL FOOTBALL.”

Ottawa, September 19

.Mr Gourlay, president of the Canadian manufacturers’ association, in the annual address, said he regretted the humiliating position Canadians were placed in. They pledged themselves in connection with naval defence, yet nothing was done. Their honourable ambition had been converted into a 'football for party politics.

TYPHOID IN NEW YORK.

New York, September 19

The outbreak of typhoid is the worst for fifty years.. It is attributed to the indiscriminate dipping of householders’ jugs into the cans of dealers.

DISCOVERY OF PETRIFIED SKELETON.

Xew York, September 19

The petrified skeleton of a mammoth was found in a cave at Harvard. It is almost intact. The skull measures six 'feet in length and two in height. Scientists declare it is a triceratops.

JAPANESE PATIENCE EXHAUSTED.

Washington, September 19

The Japanese Ambassador is wearying of his repeated attempts to see .Mr Bryan, who curtailed his calls for the purpose of keeping his lecturing engagements.

Interviewed, President Wilson urged -he necessity of abandonment of the dilatory disregard of Japanese representations in the Californian situation. President Wilson was professedly optimistic regarding the solution.

HURLED INTO A RAVINE.

Paris', September 19

Sixteen passengers were killed and 10 injured in a French .troop train at i viaduct at Ville Neuve, Loubet. The train consisted of three passenger cars and two motor coaches. The failure of the brakes caused the front motor to leave the rails. It struck the parapet, swung round, and hurled the passenger coaches into a wooded ravine )ofb below. The bottom of the declivity was only reachable down a steep, narrow, winding path, almost impassable owing to heavy rain. The carriages were embedded in mud a foot deep.

ROBBERIES IN 79th STREET.

Xew York, September 19

Robberies representing £50,000 sterling have occurred during the summer just closed from the residences of wealthy families in 70th Street

MARGARINE FOR THE TROOPS. London, September 19. Margarine is being issued twice daily to the troops at Aldershot, an ounce to each man. ENGLISH COAL FOR FRANCE. London, September 19. The French Admiralty lias ordered a hundred thousand tons of Cardiff coa I.