SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 52, 1 November 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS [By Bleoxuic Telegraph— Copyrigexj Times—Sydney Sun Scecial Cadges. Paris, October 31. Papers state that the Anglo-German convention merely concerns Mozambique and Angola and does not* affect French interests, which are concen-trated-in North Africa. (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 31. Thousands of English buyers of tickets in the Italian State lottery are disgusted to learn that nobody won the principal prize of £40,000 because the corresponding ticket was not sold.

An influential committee, representing the chief industries in Britain, has been formed to ask the Ministry to reconsider its decision against official participation in the Panama Exhibition.

New York, October 31

Mrs Pankhurst’s tour was practically a “frost.” The newspaper, “Suffragette,” which has been voluntarily withdrawn from indiscriminate sale, is exciting indignation and disgust. Rome, October 31.

There were many diverting election incidents among the Calabrian villagers, who were charged with breaking the heads of Socialists. They explained that they were entire strangers from the village, being three miles away, and consequently had no right to talk politics to us. •New York, October 31.

The Mayoral election is the fiercest in the city’s' history. The invectives and personalities employed constitute a record. Tammany is fighting for its very existence.

Vienna, October 31. The War Office has prohibited officers from shaving their upper lip. New York, October 30.

Charles Gates, better known as “Spotlight” Gates, described as the greatest spendthrift in the world, the son of millionaire Gates, died at Wyoming afterW week’s revelry. He once told an interviewer that he gave £200,000 yearly in tips Alone, adding: “I am unable to take it with me when I die.”

Paris, October 31

It is announced that the merchants and the wine-growers of Bordeaux, after a quarter of a century of hostility, have agreed that no more wine than is produced by the vineyards shall be sold as claret. Ottawa, October 30.

Sir W. Laurier, in a speech, said that the present Canadian Administration was the lowest and the most retrograde since the days of family compact. He denies that Germany is building a navy for the purppse of attacking England. Gqrmapy had built, up a great sea commerce and was bound to have a greaf navy to defend it. London, October 31.

The principal members of the AllIndia Moslem League, London, have resigned because members resident in India are not satisfied with the orderly progress of a scheme to promote harmony and concord between the communiti|is of India and- the British Government. The younger members of the League are inclined to force the scheme.