GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 97, 17 April 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BOGUS MONEY-LENDERS. By Electric Telegraph—Cop?bight] rUNiTfij? Press Ahsootattom i Berlin, April 16. The prosecution of August Subner and several others has begun. They are charged with swindling an incredible number in all parts of Germany by means of a bogus moneylending company. There are over a thousand charges against Subner, and his case has occupied nine months in preparation. TRADES UNIONISM. London, April 16. The Board of Trade's Labor Gazette states that at the end of 1912 the trade union membership was 3,281,003, an increase of eight per cent, over 1911. The membership bad more than doubled since 1896. SENGENYDD EXPLOSION. London, April 16. In connection with the Sengenydd explosion the Home Office has laid an information against the owners and Edward Shaw, manager of the colliery, for breaches of the Mine Act. CHECKING THE MAPS. Melbourne, April 16. The New South Wales Observatory authorities have requested Mr Wynne, Federal Postmaster-General, to arrange for an exchange of wireless messages to accurately determine the longitudinal position of New Zealand. A similar exchange with the Macquarie Islands proved them to have been wrongly placed on the map.

SHIPPINC ALTERATIONS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, April 15. The New Zealand Shipping Company is abandoning the Plymouth call on the inward voyage, favoring Southampton for landing passengers, because it is nearer London. It is expected that the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. will do likewise. THE DREAD CANCER. London, April 15. Dr. »T. Beard, of Edinburgh, after 30 years' research, claims to have proved for a certainty that cancer is yielding to sufficiently powerful injections of trypsin amplopsin.