GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE VOLTURNO DISASTER. • ,! y Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press .Association.) London, March 10. The Board of Trade lias ' awarded 220 medals to officers and men cf eleven vessels who assisted" in tin Volturno rescues, and also special presentations to the masters. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

London, March, 11. Tho King has given £2OO to the St. Paul's preservation fund.

RUSSIA v. GERMANY.

Berlin, March 11. The Russan Mar scare threatened to cause a panic on the Stock E> change, but the fall was arrested b; an official denial that the Government was preparing a Bill to expend £25,000,000 on artillery and cavalry.

IMPRESSIONS OF EMPIRE. London, March 11. Lord Emmott, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, who visited Australasia with the Parliamentary party in 1913. lectured at the Colonial Institute on "Impressions of Empire." He said the Imperial Parliamentary party had been welcomed in tho Dominions because the Imperial Parliament was venerated not because its views on Dominion questions were considered particularly enlightened, but because the parent institution had been copied Personally, he saw no signs in the Dominions of a general desire for closei-organic union, and for the mom enfc they must rest satisfied with the loyalty to Empire, growing with the growth of self-government.

CURE FOR STAMMERING.

Paris, March 11

At; the Academic de France, Professor Dassenvai described Marat's system of curing stammering by means or a cinematograph showing stammerers' imperfect movements compared with a normal speaker. Marat combines with this other treatment, and breathing exercise.