GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

ANGLO-FRENCH PENNY POSTAGE.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, March 7. ' Sir J. Hcnniker-Heaton, Bart., informed the Graphic that he holds a guarantee against Anglo-French Governments’ loss if they establish penny postage. A JOURNALIST GAOLED. Berlin, March 8. Ernest Moyer, editor of the Vorwaerts, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for libelling the Crown Prince in connection with his

farewell to the Hussars. The paper stated that “the Prince, while girlishly sentimental, was also a hotheaded Chauvinist.”

BRITISH TRADE EXPORTS.

London, March 7

Imports for February decreased by £1,730,406. Exports increased by £1,089,054. Re-exports decreased by £517,260 as compared to the previous February.

TARIFF REFORM.

London, March 7

Fifteen hundred delegates are attending tho Tariff Reform League's eonferhce. Mr Austen Chamberlain, in a letter, regretted the Unionist party's changed attitude, but says they must do tho best possible with the present programme. Speaking at a banquet, Mr Chamberlain predicted the early return of a Government who will establish Imperial preference, which, once established, no earthly power can shake. HIGH SOCIETY WOMEN. Montreal, March G.

Bishop Farthing denounced women’s afternoon gatherings, at which, he said, women danced and dressed shamelessly. Young girls of humbler classes found the worst examples amongst those in the higher strata of society. Some girls, ill affording it, spent more on clothes than a clergyman’s whole salary.