GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 32, 1 October 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

SHOT THREE TIMES. London, September 29. Francis Dudley, a music-Juill performer, was shot three times and killed in a taxi-cab in Frenchurch street. His companion, Eduard Hopwood, believed to be a professional man, was arrested wdiile attempting to commit suicide. DEATH DUTIES. London, September 29. An additional £917,000 death duties has been secured, representing three large estates, including Willis’s, of tobacco fame. GALE’S COMET. London, September 30. Gale’s comet is now visible here. THE BOARD OF TRADE. London, September 30. The Shipowners’ Parliamentary Committee passed a resolution severely criticising the Board of Trade’s new life-saving regulations, which subordinate shipowners’ responsibility with regard to the design and equipment of vessels to departmental responsibility, thus imperilling the safety of life. TUBERCULOSIS. ' 1

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The Medical Association states that the Sickness Insurance Committee has drafted a scheme effectively to deal with tuberculosis. It ; provides for placing each district under a tuberculosis officer to act in conjunction with tile patient’s doctor. The former is to determine the method of Treatment. dramatic'POLlCE CHASE.' 'A powerful motor-car was stolen’ in Belgium. When it entered'Paris there was a dramatic police chase. The four occupants are believed to have been connected with a plot to roll a bank on settling day. , They abandoned the car and escaped. THE PLAGUE. London, September 29. A sailor on a Hamburg steamer, lying in the Tyne, has succumbed to an attack of plague. RUSSIAN POLICE SPY. Paris, September 30. Azeff, the notorious Russian police spy and revolutionary, declares that he is willing to be tried by a jury composed of his former comrades. In the event of a death sentence he will execute it’within twenty-four hours.