GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 187, 6 February 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

COLD IN ENGLA-x-). By oaMe—Preaa As»ookW«» —U«pyrig^t. London, February 4. The cold is tlie most intense for seventeen years. The thermometer registered zero in Norfolk. Roads in the Midlands are - impassable, schools are closed, and the telegraphs interrupted. EVICTION OF FRENCHMEN. Paris, February 4. The eviction of the Frenchmen who are constructing a railway and port at Hodeidah, on the Red Sea, is causing much friction. CANADIAN DEFENCE. Ottawa, February 4. The Duke of Connaught, replying to a deputation from the Canadian Defence League, approved its aims, including its attempt to awake the consciousness of the people to the need of national defence on an adequate scale and the train-: ing 'of all youths between fourteen and. eighteen. TURBULENT VANCOUVER. 1 Ottawa, February 4. •Hold-ups continue at Vancouver, and the police are powerless to trace a single case. An armed unmasked man held up two hotels at midnight, and escaped with large sums after binding the night clerks to a water-pipe. Labor troubles are alsp growing, and are fomented by the Socialists, who demand the right to speak in the streets, contrary to the special police regulations. ' —> EXPLOSION'OF SHELLS. Teheran, February 4. While handling confiscated Persian shells in the citadel at Tabriz an explosion occurred, which killed an officer and fifteen men, wounding seven. A SEVERE WINTER. St. Petersburg, February 4. Eighteen persons were frozen to death and thirty buried in the snow in the Ishim district.