GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1, 22 April 1914, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITAIN'S COAL OUTPUT. jßi' EIiEOTRIC Telegraph—CorSßlGHTj [Dnitku Pkem AsSOOIA'jJON.I London, April 20. A preliminary estimate oi' the 101*1 output of coal in Great Britain is 287,411,869 tons, an increase of 10.37 per cent, over 1912. WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT. London, April 20. The Welsh Nonconformists' remonstrances against the disendow inent clauses in the Welsh Disestablishment Bill carried 1(12,22-1 signatures. Ml Asquith again declined to receive a deputation headed by the promoter. on the ground that the -proper constitutional course-was to petition the House of Commons or the Home Office. THE BAPTIST CHURCH. London, April 20. The Baptist Church £250,000 fund has been completed.

WAGNER'S PRIVATE LIFE. Berlin, April 20. Isolde, wife of Beidler, conductor of the Court Opera at Munich, has instituted a suit against her mother to claim the right to describe herself as "nee Wagner." Fran Cosima Wagner and her son Siegfried contend that Isolde is the (laughter of Cosima'a first husband, Hans Von Buelow. The j suit is based on the statement that while'Cosima's five children were all born during the first marriage, which was formally dissolved in 1870, Cosima lived with Wagner as his wife as early as 1864. Isolde was born in JBSS. She and the two youngest chil-' dreu, Siegfried and Eva, wife of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, were recognised until 1912 as Wagner's legitima- | tised children. jriRIKERS AND TROOPS AT WAR. I New York, April 20. A battle between armed strikers {•..•id a small detachment of the armed j State Voops'is proceeding at Trini- ] chid, Colorado. Much bloodshed has vejulted throughout the district. Several soldiers have been killed. The troops used a machine gun to enfilade the strikers' camp, and the strikers replied with heavy rifle fire. Finally the camp was destroyed. Many of the strikers were killed.

CHURCH AND DEMOCRACY. London. April .'SO. In the tercentenary celebrations, twenty members of the House of Commons were present at St. Margaret's, Westminster. ('anon Carnegie pointed to the significance of tfie rift between the Church and the working classes, whose leaders tacitly assumed that organised Christianity and organised democracy moved on different planes. Tins was the most alarming feature of English life.