SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 32, 8 October 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

j THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE.

[By Electbio Telegraph—Copyright] Limes—Sydney Sun Special Cabljls.

(Received S a.m.) Paris, October 7. At the Academy of Science Dr. Leveron announced that M. -Nieholle, director of the Pasteur Institute at

Tunis, had discovered a vaccine'which successfully solved the .problem of ; curing venereal disease. Two hundred cures were recorded, with no failures.

LAST, BUT NOT LEAST.

"Washington, October 7

Surprise is expressed at the slowness of British manufacturers in recognising the chances of the Underwood Tariff. Commercial travellers from France, Germany - } and other countries were actively benefiting but Britishers were not present and were again out-generalled.

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

Washington, October 7

The Governor of the- Philippines, in a speech at Manilla, declared, that the United States intended ultimately to grant independence to the Islands. The Filipinos have a majority in both Houses. • *

OPERA COMPANY STRANDED.

London, October 7

A sensation has been caused in musical circles by the stranding of the Denhof Grand Opera Company of 200 performers at Manchester, after a three weeks' provincial tour. Denhof, interviewed, said that most people preferred cheap music-halls, and were not willing to pay to bear good music. It was necessary to confine grand opera to London.

ANGLO-AMERICAN PEACE.

London, October 7

A British committee is apepaling for £30,000 to carry out a British programme • celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Anglo-American peace. h includes the erection of a memorial at Westminster Abbey, the purchase of the" ancestral'home <".*' Washington, and the foundation of a Chair of Anglo-American History, to be held in succession by eminent British and American historians. -

STUDENTS* BEEtf EVENIN3.

Berlin, Spotmber 28

I A sensation has been caused at Greifswald, Prussia, by the expulsion of a number of students from the uniI versify there on account of their teei total principles. A thousand of the students were called upon some time ago to attend a typical beet in celebration of the Kaiser's jubilee. Several *of the students who were total abstainers protested against being obliged to drink a beverage that they had pledged themselves not to touch. They were accused of having attempted to incite the others to rebel against academic customs, and one of the abstainers who had the temerity to criticise the reprimand that he and his fellow-students received, was sentenced by the authorities to three days' confinement in the university dungeon. Further protests against ihe conduct of the authorities resulted in the expulsion of all the objectors.

MURDER FOR £5.

Los Angeles, September 28

That Mrs Rose Nelson, who has been arersted as an' accomplice in the murder of her husband, Frank Nelson, not only planned the assassination, Init gave the slayer the signal to tire, is the statement of James Cook, the man who is charged with the murder. Mrs Nelson's preliminary examination took place yesterday, and Cook stated in evidence that the woman gave him £5 with which to line a man to commit the crime. He purchased ' a revolver with part of the money, and on the day of the murder waited outside Nelson's house. When Nelson left to go to work his wife appeared at the window and signalled to Cook to shoot him. "I could not resist," said Cook. "I crept up behind him and fired." Cook and Mrs Nelson had planned to elope after the murder.