SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 53, 3 November 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. Loudon, November 1. Colonel Robin declares lie was surprised to tind the difficulties under which the King Edward Horse labored, owing to the lack of encouragement from those who talked loudly about the building up of the Empire.* Professor Lippmann, lecturing at the Child Student Society, stated that the

word “mum” was an instinctive sound, not an intentional call. Children of every nationality employed it after a time. The infant associated “mum” with the arrival of mother and the cessation of its distress, and afterwards used the word intelligently. The earlies sounds and the vowel sounds were due to the tongue getting into the way of the child’s breath.

A laborer at Hythe, on entering an hotel, banged the door. The handle pierced a casing, which struck an electric wire. The shock killed the man instantly.

The police report that there were 128,604 arrests in 1912, the highest on record. The increases occurred in drunkenness and betting which claimed 99,566. Of 23 ascertained murders, nine of the murderers suicided, 10 were convicted, and live were declared insane. The other five were awarded death sentences. The finger-print identifications for the year totalled 16,677.

The King entertained at Holborn Restaurant 522 workmen who, were engaged in refacing Buckingham Palace. It was a unique instance of a monarch’s tribute to craftmanship and the discipline of British workmanship. Morocco, November .1 A violent storm raged at Casablanca, accompanied by exceptionally’ high tides. Three ships foundered. Four are ashore. Many lives were lost. London, October 31. The National Council of Public Morals, of which Bishop Boyd-Carpenter is chairman, is actively taking the evidence of physicians, economists, and statisticians regarding the falling birth-rate. Perth, November 1. A strange murder is reported from near Port Headland. Griffith Boyer was lately reported to have been drowned near Wallal, and his body' washed out to sea. Blacks have now found Boyer’s body in a native well, three miles from the beach. It is partly burned, and almost unrecognisable. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 2. The Dean of Rochester, addressing (Grammar Schoql girls, -said he was afraid the fifth commandment was upside down, and nowadays read “honor thy sons and thy daughters.” Thomas Hardy has published ,a_s£E=._ ies of characteristic short stories instinct with his best qualities. Irony is the most conspicuous feature, and the bitter-kindly philosophical quality gives a peculiar astringent twang tp vl * 1 ■i > > * j f every one.

New York, November 2

Countess Ida Von Claussen was arrested for threatening to kill her lawyer, alleging that owing to him her marriage with Fred Davis, the son of a Welsh coal owner, had not resulted. The Countess, who is an Americanborn Swede, is ail authoress, philanthropist, and brilliant speaker, and was divorced from her previous husband. Davis is aged 22, and met the Countess in Riviera in 1911. They became greatly attached, but his parents demurred and sent Davis on a world’s tour, hoping that he would forget the infatuation, but it did not have that result. . Rome, November 2. The most humorous feature of the elections was the obliteration of the towering facade of Jesu Church by colossal- placards bearing the name Leone Caltani. It is unknown how the bill-stickers reached the giddy height, and it is a conundrum how the Jesuit Fathers succeeded in removing the name of the anti-clerical champion. The bill stickers, in serving three masters, with engaging cynicism, posted three candidates’ bills over each other. Paris, November 2. The Secretary of State for the Colonies has invited tenders for the construction of lighthouses between Panama and Tahiti to cnabb the French Polenepian colonies to fully prolit by the opening of the Panama Canal. There was a -■ one at the iv'uiogr® mortuary on the removal of the body of a lady named Warmington to England. Despite authoritative papers, officials opposed the undertaker, who obtained the body by holding the concierge while the hearse drone off to a steamer.