GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 58, 4 March 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(Received 4, 10.35 a.in.) London, March 3. A battleship-cruiser of the Lion type shortly to ho laid down at Glasgow, will have 87,000 horse power and will ho able to steam at the rate of thirty knots. She will he the most powerful vessel in the world. Two boys, Reilly, aged fifteen, and Smith, sixteen, have been sentenced to two and three years’ respectively-for the murder of Kelly, assistant mastei at an industrial school. '1 wo other bovs, O’Hara and Cox, were sentenced to a year each, being found guilty of manslaughter. The rest were 'acquitted. Malta, March 3. The cruiser Barham has left here. It is understood her destination is Crete. St. Petersburg, March 3. The newspapers give details of a meeting of a suicide club called “.Ilie Friends of Death.” There is an extensive membership, comprising old and young people of both sexes. Nine members proposed a dramatic death. They wore to dime together in a fashionable restaurant and drink cyanide of potassium In glasses ol champagne. Paris, March 3. A French column routed rebellious tribesmen at Sakelarba, inflicting severe loss. The French lost six killed and thirty wounded. Rome, March 3. The Chamber has adopted the Insurance Bill. Capetown, March 3. By a fall of rock at the Simmer and Jack mine at Johannesburg six natives and one white man were killed. Teheran, March 3. The ex-Shah has left for Baku aboard a Russian ship. The Government has granted him a yearly pension of seventy-five thousand tomans.