GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 21, 16 May 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

LABOR REPRESSED IN RUSSIA. By Electric Telegraph —Copyright Times and Sydney Sun Services. St. Petersburg, May 15. Repression has driven the labor organisations throughout Russia underground. The workmen, including the moderate element, have come under the sway of a secret committee, whose will is law, none daring to dispute its orders. Vengeance pursues recalcitrants, even if they return to their native villages. POLITICIANS TO FIGHT A DUEL. Budapest, May 15. As a result of an altercation in the Delegations Committee, M. Tisza challenged M. Rakovizky, a member of the committee, to a duel. RAILWAY SIGNALMAN SHOT. [United Pbebi Association.] Paris, May 15. Poulain, a signalman, was found shot near Saint Denys. He died later, and his wife worked the signals until help arrived. It is supposed that the outrage was an act of revenge, Poulain having detected Garnier, a motor bandit, in the act of cutting telegraph wires. FRIENDLY SOCIETY DEFICIT. '' London, May 14. Mr Turner, the actuary, reports that owing to a miscalculation in the Friendly Society's records—not a fraud —the Postal, Telegraph and General Civil Service Benevolent Society has a deficiency to pay the promised benefits. He recommends increased contributions or largely reduced benefits. SOUTH AFRIGAN NATIVES. Capetown, May 15. Owing to the alleged grave dissatisfaction among natives against the Government's management of the Native Affairs Department, a deputation representing the various tribes leaves on Saturday to lay their views before the Imperial Parliament.

THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. London, May 15. The Stock Exchange during the week passed through a critical time, oAving to the operator of a huge speculative movement affecting five millions sterling of Canadian stocks, getting beyond his depth. Six of the leading firms came to the rescue, and averted a financial crisis. A MEDICAL FRAUD. Berlin, May 15. Router's Paris correspondent reports that Macaurt, an American, who has been conducting institutes in England and on the Continent for the j'cure of rheumatism and other diseases, jhas been sentenced to three years' imprisonment and fined 3000 francs for swindling in connection with the sale of his vibratory apparatus. Several agents also were fined.