GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 14, 20 December 1915, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

>SCENE IN JAPANESE PARLIAMENT. DISORDER QUELLED BY POLICE. [UNITED Pr£Bß JaSOOIATION.] (Received 10.25 a.m.) Tokio, December 19. Exciting scenes occurred in the Diet. The Opposition moved a motion embodying an impeachment of the Cabinet. Premier Okuma was replying when an Oppositionist jumped on to the rostrum and struck Okuma. The police quelled the disorder, and Okuma resumed amid cheering. The motion was negatived overwhelmingly. Many scenes ensued in the lob- c ; bies. EXCITING TIME .IN GLASGOW. a,River of flame. (DISTILLERY PREMISES BURNT. (Received 11 a.m.) .London, December 19.

Great . crowds in Glasgow in the early morning watched twelve thousand casks of flaming whisky flow into the north canal from a distillery company’s seven-storeyed premises. The I spirit threatened to consume the boats being built on the canal, and the firemen vainly .endeavored to da in the flood. Jcany lines of hose failed to extinguish the streams. The firemen as a last resource played the i engines fro thnie canal bank and pumped water, from the bottom upon the surface. It Avas slow work, but it was successful. The premises were destroyed, an explosion .throwng out the walls. The loss is £160,000.