GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 59, 6 October 1916, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

FRENCH SURGICAL METHODS. Press Association—Copyright, Austra* Han and N.Z. Cable Association. New York, October 4. Professor Alexis Carrel, of tho Rockefeller Institute, announces that. .she adoption' of reforms in surgical methods throughout France has resulted in a vast diminution of amputation and fatal wounds. He also states that the use of the Daken solution for wounds is rendering it possible to do much grafting of tissue, bone and flesh, which was hitherto impracticable on a large scale. Another reform was the adoption of the American system of speeding up the transport of the wounded. ROYAL MARRIAGE DISSOLVED. Petrograd, October 4. Tho Czar has confirmed the dissolution pronounced by the Sjuod on the marriage of his sister, the Grand Duchess Olga, with Prince Peter of Oldenburg. THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR. Petipgrad, 5. jgThe. late Roumanian to Vienna, in an interview 'WW tne Novoe Vremya,' stated, that JOT Emperor Franz Josef is comparatively vigorous. Rumors of his suffering from senile infirmity and apathy art false. THE FRENCH WAR IjQAN. _, London, October 5. The French 5 per cent loan has bee. 7 issued at 61s 6d per hundred francs, redeemable in 1931. THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE. London, October 5. Tho Union Castle line has ordered four 15,000 ton steamers for the South African trade, with large cold storage capacity, in anticipation ot the increase in meat and fruit export.