GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 77, 22 July 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. Rome, July 21. Ulivi and Signorina Fornari eluded the authorities and sailed from Trieste. Interviewed aboard the vessel, Ulivi stated that they had eloped to secure revenge on those who had lost confidence in him. St. Petersburg, July 21. M. Poincare had an enthusiastic welcome. The Czar hanquetted him and toasted the Alliance and its pacific ideals. M. Poincare was cheered on his arrival by an enormous concourse. The Novoe Vremya, in a special article, warmly re-ainrms Rusia’s support of the Franco-ltussian Alliance. Paris, July 21. Le Temps states that at a dinner at the British Embassy at Berko the Crown Prince suddenly remarked to Sir Edward Goschen, “Where are your spies.” The Ambassador replied, “What spies?” The Crown Prince rejoined: “Your two spies—tl» naval and military attaches.” The Ambassador retorted that his attaches did not occupy themselves with espionage. [United Press Association.] Now York, July 21. The Federal Court at Chicago uphold the internal revenue collector’s ruling that firms making whisky in barrel staves must prove that a tax has been paid on the whisky previously contained in the barrels, otherwise it would be taxed. Sydney, July 21. George Louis, a constable, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for forcibly demanding money from a Chinaman. He admitted that drink had caused his downfall. Paris, July 21. Two trains collided near Toulouse. Four carriages were destroyed, six passengers killed, and thirty injured. Smyrna, July 21. Turkish regulars landed at Long Island, in the Smyrna Gulf, and looted Greek houses, pretending to search for' arms. The Greeks who protested were driven to the square, and sixteen wore butchered. London, July 21. A Blue Book shows that during the coal strike of 1912 trade union funds were depleted by nearly three-quar-ters of a million. The strike cost the miners over a million. The trades union membership,at the end of 1912 stood at over 21 millions, and the funds at 5] millions.