GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 14, 7 May 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ANCLO-JAP-CHINESE ALLIANCE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Tikes and Sydney Sun Services. Tokio, May 4. ' Count Okunia .suggests the extension 1 of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance by forming an economic alliance with |Cliina. | TURKISH TREACHERY. : Constantinople, May 5. The Turkish military arrested three [Slav milkmen in November, and charged them with killing fifteen Turkish soldiers and violating Moklern women. There was overwhelming evidence that ;they never left Constantinople during the war. The Servian Minister applied for their release, and was assured that [they would be immediately liberated. I Irritated at the delay, he reiterated the request to the Porte that they should he officially liberated, when it was discovered that the prisoners had been previously shot. SELF-MADE MEN AND DEGENERACY. London, May 5. Doctor Frederick Mott, Pathologist in the County Asylums, discussing the subject of neuropathic inheritance, shows that the pattern of the human brain is capable of being inherited, just as the shape and features are inherited. He makes the suggestion that self-made men not infrequently formed th'e first step in the process of degenerating by selfishness and moral guile, by which they amassed fortunes for their children to spend ; foolishly. The- first evidence of degeneracy in children is possessing the same selfish instinct, but, with no need to work, they acquire vicious habits, and criminal propensities, and frequently terminate their careers in the madhouse. A STEAMER ON FIRE. [United Press Association.] Halifax (Nova Scotia), May 4. An unidentified steamer is reported to be on fire three hundred miles south of Cape Pace by the steamer ■Seydlitz, which was unable to identify her, owing to* thick smoke. No sign of life is discoverable. The, Seydlitz called' other liners by wireless, the Sachem-, Branderburg, Olympia, and Frauoonba responding. Not a trace of the ship’s boats has been found, and the Tate of the crew is a mystery. BIG SWEEPSTAKE BUSINESS. h i ■ Berne, May 6. A Government inquiry shows’ that there-are-twenty English sweepstake offices < art i Lucerne, 1 employing 130 clerks.i The owners 'make huge profits. Some of the Offices sometimes send thirty thousand letters daily to England. BOGUS WIRELESS CABLES. 5 ' London, May 5. In connection witlnthe “Siberia” incident, iu which calls for help were received, ..purporting come from the steamer Siberia, Lloyds suggest the 'establishment -of a register of secret passwords* for each ship to be used in connection with ‘‘S.O.S.” messages. The Japanese Government is investigating the original false wireless message. : CANADIAN LUMBER TRADE. Ottawa, May 5. Caadian lumber exporters assort that the reason why United States exporters displace them in Australian markets is because lumber boats do not bring a return cargo from Australia, while the lumber boats from San Francisco return laden with coal. Consequently, the trade is profitable. The establishment of a Canadian-Austra-lian freighter service would enable the British Columbian lumbermen to expand trade enormously, for New Zealand importers recognised the superiority of the Canadian product. Lack of accommodation for lumber aboard the passenger lines is also complained of. TAINTED MONEY. Washington, May 4. The question arose in the Senate of accepting Mr Rockefeller’s grant to the farm demonstration work. Senator Lane moved that the grant he rejected, as the money was covered with the blood stains and tears of Colorado women. Other Senators supported Mr Lane, bitterly criticising Rockefeller. The Senate adjourned without a decision being arrived at. Mourners still parade outside Rockefeller’s offices at New York. New York, May 4. Tried on a charge of disorderly conduct outside Rockefeller’s office, Mary Gang declared to the Court that she would shoot Rockefeller like a dog if she were able to gain entrance to Ids offices.