GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 17, 20 January 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

HOPF SENTENCED TO DEATH.

[By Electric Teleguaph —Copyright] [United Press xVssociation.l Berlin, January IS. Hopf has been sentenced to death. Experts testified that there was arsenic in the victims’ bodies.

RACEHORSES INCINERATED.

London, January 17

A fire occurred at Dewlmrst’s training establishment in Ireland. Fifteen racehorses were rescued. Lord Dudley’s steeplechaser Swallowhawk was incinerated.

A CLERIC AND POLITICS.

Paris, January 17

Despite an episcopal injunction fo abandon politics, the Abbe Lemaire, a Radical Republican, has accepted the vice-presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. He has now been episcopally suspended until he resumes his priestly duties.

A EUROPEAN GEISHA.

Tokio, January 17

The first white woman to become a geisha, an English woman, has been licensed to appear at the Yokohoma tea gardens. She was formerly a teacher in the service of the GovernorGeneral of Korea, and is an accomplished player of the samisen.

AGAINST MONOPOLIES.

Washington, January 17

Representative Stanley has introduced an amendment to the Sherman Anti-Trust law, making it illegal for the monopolisation or restraint of trade in any degree. The amendment was designed to eliminate the “rule of rason” decision laid down by the Supreme Court in the Standard Oil cases.

A SMUGGLER SUFFERS.

Berne, January IS

Moutted, a Swiss, was fined £3400 for smuggling gunpowder and phosphorus in a motor car from France. At the Swiss frontier the motor car was ablaze, and the smuggler was wounded in endeavouring to throw the contents over a. precipice to avoid detection.

UNITED STATES AND JAPAN.

Washington, January 15

President Wilson, in a message to the American people, advocating subscriptions in aid of the sufferers of the earthquake in Japan, refers to Japan in friendly terms, describing her as a sister nation.

BEST ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA.

London, January 17

At the Dominions’ Commission, Professor Biles said there were difficulties in deepening the Suez Canal, therefore the Cape was the best route to Australia for the large, deep-draught-ed vessels of the future.