GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 82, 27 March 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

'■ EMPIRE BIRTH-RATE., > [By EIEOTKIO TEMOeAPH—COPYRIOSITj Times and ; Sydney Sun Services. London, March 25. Dr. Drysdale read a paper on the Empire birth-rate at, the Colonial Institute. He stated that there was a rapid and i, steady , decline. The increase in population of every country depended in almost every- case upon its power of feeding the people, not upon the. birthrate,.

JAPANESE AFFAIRS.

Tokio, March 25

The Cabinet has resigned. This ignominous downfall of Yamamoto is another blow to clan government. The return of the army faction to power is impossible.

* ELECTIONjSCENES AT LIMA.

j£U nitid , Pbhbb Association. 1 / Lima, March 25

Congress is unable to assemble to instal the President in succession to Billinghurst, owing to want of a quorum. ‘

Business is paralysed by a general strike. Mobs of the - .opposing factions are creating disturbances, and are fighting .with firearms. .Many have been wounded in the . streets. The deputy supporting the Vice-president, when driving to the Chamber, was attacked by a mob and shot in the head.

VANDALISM AT WATERLOO.

Brussels, March 25

Parliament passed a Bill in less than an hour to prevent further vandalism on the Waterloo battlefield. The House of llepresentatives’ report stated that the measure was specially intended to satisfy English sentiment.