GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 18, 22 September 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

CONSCRIPTION IN BRITAIN

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyrmht] [United Press Association.] Ottawa, September 20.

Sir Gilbert Parker, the well-known novelist, speaking at a Canadian club banquet in Winnipeg, said that conscription was never likely to be introduced into Great Britain. It was absolutely inconsistent with Great Britain's whole history. But a home army was needed in Britain as well as in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other Dominions, because in the world's evolution we never could tell what would happen.

MR BRYAN'S LECTURES

Washington, September 21

Mr Bryan has concluded his Chatauqua course of lectures. The receipts fell in recent weeks. Mr Byran has felt keenly the criticism levelled at his lecturing while holding high office, and it is- not likely that he will repeat the lectures.

A JOCKEY'S REVENGE

Brussels, September 2fo

The owner of a racing stable engaged a jockey named Hendrye, and discharged another jockey named Brown. The latter waited about the stable until Hendrye was exercising the horses, ajid then fired a revolver at him 'twicje, i mortally wounding Hendrye. Brown jumped on a horse and galloped off, but "was arrested later.

ARREST OF BANK DIRECTORS. t Berlin, September 20. The Hanseatic Bank of Hamburg has suspended payment. Three directors, Cramer, Von. Klausbrach, and Seinrich have'been arrested for falsifying accounts. The share capital of £125,000 and £30,000 of deposits have been lost. • ■ ;

COUNTERFEIT BANKNOTES

London, September 21

Many counterfeit banknotes made by convicts at Peterhead are in circulation.. They are the work of a clever penman. The word "five" is written across the note in red It is a marvel that 'the notes were made without special implements by convicts in confinement. They were circulated by Admiralty laborers working on a building alongside the convicts. A prisoner's letter was found, promising "a fiver" to somebody for tobacco and a very line pen. One workman was dismissed f>r wrting to a convict for notes. These were usually hidden under stones at the harbor works for free men to discover. Only one or two warders were in charge of over 100 convicts.

BIG FIRE IX RUSSIA. (Received 11.20 a.m.) St. Petersburg, September 21. Six hundred houses and many commercial establishments at Ningata have been destroyed by fire. The damage is very heavy.

FATAL LONDON FIRE. London, September 21. In a fire in a Jewish tenement house a man named Bowman was burnt to death in an attic. Another perished in a fruitless effort to rescue his daughter.

RECOVERY OF VALUABLE NECK

LACE

Mrs Fielden, of Condover Hall, Shrewsbury, lost a £2OOO necklace in a bathroom at Buxton hotel six years ago. The necklace has just been found behind the heating appuiatus. It is supposed to have been carried there by a maid with dirty bath towels and that it had slipped behind the pipes.

A SPANISH MURDER. (Received noon.) Madrid, September 21. It is understood the Captain-Gen-eral lias confirmed the death sentence on Sanchez, and the term of imprisonment on his daughter Louisa for the murder of Scnor Jalon.

FATAL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.

An explosion of dynamite in a factory at Getadalcans killed five and several were injured.