CABLE BREVITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 22, 18 September 1912, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES.

Legaquex aeroplaned to a height of 18,272 feet at Villa, The British steamer Barnesmore struck a stray torpedo near Salonika, and had to be beached.

Kouhlay, Prefect of Rhone Department, in a decree, prohibits hatpins in trains or theatres or at meetings unless the points are shielded. Six persons were terribly injured in the moulding shop of the Caledonian railway.at Strollox, owing to four cwt of molten brass exploding. As a result of a subsidence at the Augusta Victoria mine at Recklinghausen (Germany) twenty persons were killed.

The Standard (London) states it is untrue that Sir Abe Bailey proposed to take a team to Australia. He never even contemplated it.

Fernandez, a Spaniard, being denied a kiss by his sweetheart, stabbed her and then shot the girl's father and mother in the streets of Saragossa. All were fatally injured. Fernandez escaped, the croud being unable to stop him.'

It is stated unofficially that the battleships now being laid down at Devonport and Portsmouth, to be completed by Christmas, will be driven exclusively by liquid fuel. They will have storage capacity for 2000 torn, each.

Carter's, Paterson's, Pickford's, and other leading carriers, and several railways, have agreed to a working arrangement to prevent overlapping, and also for replacing horsei with motor waggons. This is likely to result in a clearing house in London for railway goods.

To prevent the doping of horses the stewards at Longchamps (France) are taking the saliva of every winner. This, is sealed in tubes in the presence ol owners after the races. The tubes are then numbered by secret code and handed to an expert to be analysed for cocaine strychnine, and caffeine.

'At the army manoeuvres, the King spent a day on horseback in the filing line of General Grierson's force. The defenders in airships and aeroplanes continue to report every movement out of reach of rifles and artillery. A feature of the manoeuvres is the success of mechanical traction, relieving invaders of the incubus of 10,000 horses.

The Irish express pulled up at Colwyn Bay with a carriage afire, and a party of terrified schoolboys returning to Stoneyhurst College were rescued. One had previously jumped on the lines and was seriously injured. Seven others Avere burnt. They had been playing with sulphur.

The Globe's Portsmouth correspondent states, that the Admiralty is largely increasing the number of hydroplanes. Experiments proved that bombs from a height of 1000 feet could be dropped into a funnel with great accuracy and witli certainty of crippling the vessel. New protections are being devised.

Representative farmers at Spalding including the ex-chairman of the Liberal Association, have been fined 2s 6d on each summons for evading the Insurance Act. They pleaded that the Act was illegal, because members of the House of Commons had net sought reflection after passing the Payment to Members' Bill.