GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 44, 16 February 1912, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

(Received 16, 10.10 a.m.) Loudon, February 15

At the inquiry into the Delhi wreck the captain of the Delhi attributed the disaster to the obscurity of the Spartel light and a local haze. The stranding was due to unusual currents southwards.

Madrid, February 15

Six lighthouse keepers on the island oil - Corcubion are starving owing to the incessant gales for thirty days having prevented the landing of supplies.

Berlin, February 15,

The mixing shed of the explosive factory at Brctten has been blown up. Four workmen were killed. In the Reichstag, during a debate on the Estimates, the Secretary of the Treasury demanded that the new army and navy expenditure bo met by fresh taxation. Germany’s credit must be maintained. An extra hundred thousand pounds is being asked for aeroplanes and dirigibles and an additional thirty-two thousand to strengthen the Kaichan troops. New York, February 15.

A fierce battle took place between foreign farmers at Saskatchewan, who rushed the grain cars in an endeavour to secure trucks , for shipping wheat. One is likely to die of; his injuries. The custom is that the

first applicants get' preference of the use of cars.

Professor Parker, of Columbia University, attempted to scale Mount McKinley, but encountered heavy ice three miles from his destination, and 1 I 7 was forced to return. He makes another attempt overland.

Fifty arrests have been made throughout the United States in connection with the investigation of the dynamiting outrages. . They include Ryan, president of the Structural Steel Workers, to which the MacNamaras belonged; Frank Webb, ex-mem-ber of the Ironworkers’ Executive Board; Meadows, business agent of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners; Butler, vice-pre-sident of the Structural Ironworkers’ Union; and other leading labour officials. , ' ’

Tlfc charges include violation of the Federal statutes, regulating the shipment of explosives and aiding and abetting and violation of the law ; also aiding and abetting tho ( concealment of such violation.

St. Petersburg, February 15

By a great snowstorm at Ishim, in Western Siberia, many deaths and much misery has been caused.

Sixty-throe bodies have already been 'ound.

Rome, February, 15. Throe of the Viterbo Camorrists ha ye hgcii released on the ground that they, have 1 already been imprisoned for five years, the maximum sentence for criminal association wherewith they were charged. Several others will bo released shortly on similar grounds. Alexandria, February 15.

The body of the late Duke of Fife is aboard H.M.S. Powerful, homeward bound, j rn „ ~, ~