GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 30 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A “SPORTY” RAJAH, [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. Paris, June 29. Rajah Puhukkolai is visiting Europe tor the first time. Ho is ambitious to gain notoriety. A passionate lover of horse-racing, he tried in vain to jbny the favorites for two big races, and paid the owner of a starter in the (hand Hurdle Race at Aider! £4OOO for half the stake in the event of victory. The horse won a stake worth £5600, and the Rajah’s' bets totalled £BOOO.

BRIGANDS AT HOME. Rome, Juno 29. A band of brigands had held the district adjoining Milan in a state of perpetual terror for'four years. A squadron of the Carabinieri 'suddenly confronted the band in the forest, and n fierce fight ensued, the brigands retreating to the recesses of the mountains after shooting the loader of the Carabinieri. In an adjacent grotto, the soldiers found a large store of provisions sent as tribute by the neighboring villages. Several crucifixes and prayer-books suggested that the bandits were disturbed while at their votions].VENEREAL DISEASES.; June. 29. At the Venereal Diseases Commission, J,)r. Pringle, of the Middlesex Hospital, gave evidence that a largo proportion of syphilis was of: Joroign origin. Women forbidden the -streets in their own countries came to England and .spread the diseases.