GENERAL CABLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12, 5 May 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE.

i\s l , —r. ; ; \j! SYDNEY SOVEREIGNS. j jg-j Eleotiuo Tbekqbaph—Copyright] I [United Press Association.] Sydney, May 4. Numerous counterfeit sovereigns are circulating in Sydney. THE DAY BAKING QUESTION. Sydney, May I. I'l, o Master Bakers’ Confernee with I the 'men regarding day baking rcfus--1 c d to discuss the matter while the ultimatum is in existence. The men will therefore discuss a proposal to j withdraw the ultimatum. A CHINESE AMBUSH. Pekin, May 3. A Chinese troop at Kalgan amhushed and massacred seventy unarmed “inner” Mongolians, who had recently been serving with “outer” Mongolian forces. THE C.Y.M.C.A.’S LITTLE DEBT. • • ■ i i London, May 3. The Daily Telegraph has opened a subscription list to liquidate the debt of £IO,OOO on the Central Young Men’s Christian Association. A CHILLING FROST. London, May 3. A frost in the Selby distiict on Friday night caused £IOO,OOO damage to potatoes, oats and barley. DROWNED IN A TRAIN SMASH. Now York, May 3. ' Five persons are believed to have been Crowned when the Partrock Island railroad bridge, over a South Canadian river near Bridgeport, Oklahoma,- was washed out. LUNATIC’S FEARFUL DEED. Madrid, May 3. I A straight-waistcoated madman at the Alicante Ho. oital, who had killed his father, escaped from his cell, and gouged out his mother’s eyes with an iron spoon, under the impression that it was his father returned to life. FROM KITCHEN TO “THRONE.” Sydney, May, 2. i Watriana, ‘who posed in Sydney as the rightful King of the Loyalty Is-j lands, has been refused admission to Noumea. He admits 110(10111118 about him which have been published in the j Sydney journals during , the past few 1 years were * all hjs inventions, and that he was previously a domestic servant. 1 1 -

A WEDO.INO INTERRUPTED. 'Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, May 1. A number of* Members of Parliament and distinguished guests attended the wedding of Air Noel Buxton, M.P., to Miss Lucy Pelham Burn, at St. James’s Church, Piccadilly. Suffragettes in the gallery threw hundreds of •leaflets upon the bridegroom and bride as they wore standing at the ’Altar, and 4houted 11 ildi\, the service (having to be suspended until the vergers and police had removed them!

BOY ACQUIRESTHE DRUG HABIT London, May 3. At the London sessions, a clerk, 18 years of age, was sentenced to imprisonment for stealing. He confessed that he took large quantities of menthol snuff. The medical evidence suggested that his downfall was attributable to this drug, which gradually affected the brain, and would probably have killed him. REPRODUCTIONS OF THE NUDE. Berlin, May 3. The Supreme Court held that postcard reproductions of tiro nude statuary reflected the artistic value of the originals of famous artists, and strenuously opposed the suggestion that tlie sale fed immorality. A TRAMS-ATLANTIC RACE. Berlin, May 3. There is great interest in the transAtlantic race between tin 1 Mauretania and the Vaterland. MOBBING MISSIONARIES. London, May 3. Large crowds gathered outside a house at Waymley, near Bristol, alleged to be a home for Mormon missionaries. A young servant girl from South Wales had left home to take service. Her parents lost sight of her, but learnt that she was living at Warmloy. They went to the house arid the girl answered the door. Her uncle pulled her out of tiro house. Eight or ten men, it is alleged, then rushed from the house, overturning' him and re-taking, the girl. The j crowds delivered fusihules of stones, and the police were compelled to interfere to protect the missionaries, who denv that they are Mormons. !