GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 99, 17 October 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

NEW ITALIAN DREADNOUGHT. ! Bj* Cable —Press Association—Copyright. I Rome, October l.j. { j The third Italian Dreadnought. Leo- I iiardo d«i Vinci, lias been launched at | Genoa. { HEALTH OF THE XAYY. London, October 15. | The health of the navy during the year shows a continuous improvement. There is a notable decrease of tuberculosis. DEAR FOOD IN GERMANY. Berlin, October 15. The Social Democrats have arranged twenty-eight meetings to protest against dear food. THREATENING THE POLICE. London, October 15. A man named De Veue, described as an artist, who brandished a loaded revolver against the police and was also aimed with a dagger, was arrested in Holborn. He confessed that he had attempted to shoot a detective after raiding a shop in Oxford street. DUELLING JOURNALISTS. Paris, October 15. ' M. Reinucoli, editor of the Depeche-de-iNice, fought a duel with a local confrere of the press and received a serious sword thrust in the chest. TELEPHONES INTERRUPTED. Paris, October 15. The telephone junction cabin at Belaii has been blown up, destroying communication between Paris and towns in the Seine and Marne districts. It is believed to be an act of sabotage (i.e., wilful damage). THE NOBEL PRIZE. Stockholm, October 15. It is announced that Maurice Maeterlinck, J;he famous Belgian essayist and poet, has received the Nobel prize for literature. A WOMAN RELEASED. St. Petersburg, October la. At the instance of Sir E. Grey, Miss Malicka has been released at Warsaw on bail. [Miss Malicka claimed to be a British subject, but the Russian Government maintained that she was a Russian.] TUBEROULOSTS AMONG- COWS. London, October 15. At the conference of the National Union of Public Health Authorities, Dr. Armstrong, of Newcastie-on-Tyne, declared that half a million cows in Eng--1 land were affected bv tuberculosis. ' ——--1- I