GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 261, 14 March 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

THE SUFFRAGETTES. .By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 12. • Mr. Churchill, in replying to a question, said that the police of London on November 18, the date of a suffragettes' demonstration, acted with their customary forbearance and humanity. He repudiated the allegations emanating from "that copious mountain of mendacity," the Women's Social and Political Union. | SUNDAY PICTURE SHOWS. | London, Ma rch 12. London County Council has authorised cinematograph exhibitions on Sunday on condition that a portion of the proceeds is given to the London hospital funds. Several clergymen threaten to refuse to make collections for hospitals if the permission is continued. A TOWN BURNED. Washington, March 12. The whole business district of the town of, Webber Falls, Oklahoma, has been gutted by fire. No lives were lost. GRIEVANCES REDRESSED. Paris, March 12. The strike of fishermen at St. Malo is ended. The men employed in the naval arsenal at Toulon struck as a protest against bad food. The grievance has now been redressed. . BOMB CAUSES PANIC. St. Petersburg, March 12. - A bomb which had been placed inside the wrecked biograph theatre at Vasa in Finland threw the town into a panic. THE BAGDAD RAILWAY. Berlin, March 12. The North German Gazette expresses satisfaction at Sir E. Grey's statement as showing the road to an agreement over the Bagdad railway question. ROBBED IN A TRAIN. Paris, March 12. Dr. Powdrell's widow, who acted as a nurse throughout the' South African war, was seriously assaulted and robbed in the train near Cannes. The assailant was seen escaping. DOUBLE DESECRATION. London, March 12. The peasantry at Newtown disinterred the corpse of a suicide which was buried in consecrated ground owned by his family and reinterred it in the suicides plot at Waterford. CHINA AND RUSSIA. London, March 12. The Observer's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the friction between China and Russia is grown disquieting, China having refused the demands concerning new consulates. ; BANK ROBBERS WORSTED. Ottawa, March 12. Armed desperadoes raided a branch of the Toronto Bank at Wyoming, Ontario. | The teller fought two men single-handed,! wrested a revolver from one assailant, I fired three shots, and the desperadoes fled.