GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2258, 18 September 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

fly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright : +- ■' POLICEMAN'S BLUNDER BOER GENERAL SHOT Johannesburg, September 16. Generals Beyers and Dolarey were motoring near the town. They did not hear a policeman's challenge, and General Dolarey was shot dead Cape Town, September 16; Generals Delarey and' Beyers were returning in the evening from General Delarey's fann. The police were seeking a gang of desperadoes who wore using a similar motor-car. The police had -, -previously killed a doctor and wounded his wife and sister in similar circumstances.

Three gangs had been operating in the Rand., They had raided the bank last week and shot dead a man who had discovered them. They dynamited a safe on Sunday last and killed two police; then they escaped on a motorcycle Armed police organised a hunt, and surprised their hiding place. The bandits killed a detectivo and escaped with a, woman and child, fusillading the residents. Tho Hon. Jacobus Hendrik Delarey, member of tho Legislative Assembly of tho Union Parliament, was born in 1848, and was a member of the first. Volksraad of the Transvaal. During the Boer War, 1899-1902, he. was in command of the Lechtenburg burghers, and was one of the most successful of tho Boer Generals. He was of Huguenot descent, though not a Frenchman. General Delarey came prominently before the public only a few days ago when the question of South Africa's attitude, iu regard to the war was being discussed in the Union Parliament. .General Delarey held up the British flag as being preferable to any, and promised the Germans a warm reception if they invaded the Union territory. PEACE TREATIES SIGNED BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND AMERICA. Washington, September 16: The British and French Ambassadors have signed the Anglo-American and Franco-American Peace Commission treaties. Aosording to a cable message dated London, July 11, Mr. Page, the United States Ambassador, speaking in London, announced that Great Britain and tho United States had practically concluded an arbitration treaty establishing a commission to which disputes could be referred. American advices state that the, approval of the British dominions to the treaty is being awaited. EMPRESS OF IRELAND., Ottawa, September 15.. The whole of the silver, from the wreck of the Empress of Ireland has been salvaged..—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) AMERICAN TROOPS IN MEXICO. Washington, September 16. Some of: the Anif-rioau corps at Vera Cruz have been withdrawn. PASSENGER TRAIN DERAILED. ; New York, Soptember 16. A passenger train was derailed and fellinto a creek at Lebanon, Missouri:* Over forty persons were killed or trapped in the cars and drowned.

-MEAT EXPORT COMMISSION. Sydney, September 17. At the Meat Export Commission, Mr. Rosewame, a meat preserver, gave evidence that he had recently entered into arrangements for the sale to the Armour Company of the whole output of his Brisbane _ and Sydney works, the Armours having the option of taking a maximum or minimum number of cases". BOILERMAKERS' STRIKE IN SYDNEY. . (Rec. September 17, 10.40 p.m.) Sydney, September 17. One hundred and fifty hoilermakors at the naval dockyard havo struck owing to tho employment of labourers on boilermakers' work.