SON CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 31, 7 October 1913, Page 5

SON CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS JOHN BULL, THE IMPOSSIBLE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. London, October 6. Lord Ashbourne, in a speech at the Gaelic League, said the English tongue would never be the Irish tongue. John Bull was the most insular, narrowminded, and impossible person the world had ever seen. Anyone going to the Continent knew what an utterly incapable fool his representative was. Ho looked for his own language and customs, and complained when he failed to get them. The best way for Ireland to become a progressive people was to speak her own language.

ROOSEVELT ON THE MOVE.

New York, October 6,

Mr Roosevelt, accompanied by his wife and son (Kormet), and six scientists, have departed on a tour o; the South American States. Mr Roosevelt delivers lectures at the Universities there, and subsequently leads an expedition on behalf of the American Museum and Natural History to thoroughly explore the river Paraguay, returning in the spring of 1914.

“A LIBEL AGAINST NATURE.”

Washington, October 6.

The Philadelphia Protestant Sunday School have decided to teach sexology, holding that to avoid the subject is a libel against Nature.

GERMANY AND FRANCE.

Berlin, October 16.

The Lokal Anzieger commenting on the large increase in the export of grain and flour from Germany to France, says: “Such heavy drafts on our grain supplies concerned was provisioning, which must spring from political rather than from agricultural motives.”

THE POLICY OF STRIKES.

London, October 6. Mr Philip Snowden (Lab.M.P., for' *

Blackburn), in a speech, attacked the policy of strikes as being as paltry and pettifogging as the social legislation of the last few years. From the standpoint of socialism it was equal, if not in advance of public opinion. The depression in the Labor Party was due to the programme dished up by Lloyd George, the principle of = which was “feeding a dog on its tail.” It was deceiving the public, hut dissillusion would come.

BRIGANDS IN SARDINIA.

Rome, October 6.

Brigands are very active in Sardinia. The bodies of two landowners and a servant were found mutilated. The police are hampered in their efforts to capture the brigands by the people favoring the outlaws. *

MARIE LLOYD, THE ACTRESS.

New York, October 6,

Marie Lloyd and Bernard Dillon are remaining in America, the authorities stipulating that they must live apart. Tho newspapers adversely criticise the decision, and declare that tho authorities have followed the letter rather than the spirit of the law.

A BARONET’S SUICIDE.

Paris, October 6

Sir Frederick Williams died, from an overdose of ether in an expensively, furnished flat at Montmartre. The flat was decorated with rare flowers and incense-burners. He was the third holder of the title, and for ten years had inherited an immense fortune. He forsook bis country and led a Bohemian life in London. He became the centre of a group of aesthetic youths, whoso eccentricities were notorious. luey frequented an apartment in Kensington, upholstered entirely in black, with a coffin in the centre, beside which incense was burned in front of a human skull. Annoyed by the attentions aroused by these fantastic rites, Sir Frederick Williams went to Paris.

QEBEL’S ESTATE.

Berlin, October 6,

Herr Behel left £16,000. He bequeathed £IOOO to the Socialist Party.