SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 55, 5 November 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS THE HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. Berlin, November 4.

Prince Ernest, cm entering Brunswick on Monday, amnestied many prisoners. Crowds invaded the capital and are boisterously happy at having their own ruler for the first time in 00 years. THE HOME RULE BILL. London, November 4. Karl Dunraven, in a letter urging the recasting of the Home Rule Bill, said that a lasting settlement was possible only by convert ng it into a measure not requiring limitations.

“POT-HUNTINC” RHODES SCHOLARS. (Received 8 a.mA London, November 4. Anthony Hope, in a letter to the Times apropos of the Rhodes scholars, says that the successes of fresh men at sports suggests an excellence perhaps attibutable to pot-hunting or over-specialised and semi-professional -athleticism while attending oversea | universities, i “WE HAVE NO WAR CHEST.” London, November 4. Lord Sydenham, in a letter to the limes, contends that the committee of Imperial Defence should investigate the financial situation which a war would create. “We have no war chest,” he says, “such as is prudently maintained and recently was doubled by Germany, to act as a steadying force on the outbreak of war, and to give confidence when war appears imminent.” A QUEEN VICTORIA FILM.

London, November 4

A film depicting 60 years of Queen Victoria’s life is being exhibited privately in Regent Street. The film took 60 actors and actresses eight months to complete, and measures 6000 feet. The 'cost of the production was £12,000, of which two thirds went in wages.

I. V V U S.A. WARSHIPS. IJM • ~ * Washington, -November 4. It was at first intended that the four American warships ep route to Meduco should relieve those at Vera Cruz, but it has been decided that the whole seven will remain at Vera Cruz lor the present. The Now York Sun declares that the general feeling of Congressmen, army and naval officers, and diplomatists, is that forcible intervention is inevitable. t . J BRITISH AGRICULTURAL ’ ' METHODS'. New York, November 4. ; The American farmers who recently toured Great Britain on a mission of investigation of the agricultural conditions, report that they are greatly impressed with the character of the farming. There is a superior type of live stock. They were struck with the entire absence of worn-out laud and with the thoroughness of cultivation. A BRAINY JAPANESE. Tokio, November 4.

Count Katsura’s brain weighed sixteen hundred grammes, comparing favorably with the greatest thinkers of the world, and was exactly the same as that of Kant. [lmmanuel Kant was an eminent Prussian philosopher, born in Konisberg in 1724. and was descended from la Scotch family of the name of Cant. Immanuel spelt it with a“K. Kant was a prolific writer, and excelled in mataphysios. The leading principle of his philosophy is a criticism or examination of the knowing faculty as >a necessary preliminary to an examination of the objects of knowledge. ■“Critic of PuVe Reason” is the work jmostly famous to English readers. He !died in 1804.] STARVED TO CURE. San Francisco, October 28. j A man named Fred Ebbespn, who lias been under starvation treatment iat the city hospital in Seattle, has ! died after going without tood for 49 I days. j Ehhesnn was attended by Andrew I Larson, a disciple of Mrs Hazznrd, who j is known as ‘‘the starvation doctor,” j and is now undergoing imprisonment j in connection with the starving of the girl Williamson, said to he an Australian, whose ease will he remembered. Larson wanted Mrs Hazzard to (treat F.hheson also, but she refused, because lie bad no money. Larson administered the treatment according to I the directions in Mrs Hnzzard’s book. He was arrested on Monday, when Ebbeson’s condition was reported to the city health department, hut no charge was brought against him, and he was released.