GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, 30 December 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

ANOTHER KNOCK FOR KNOX. (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, December 29. Knox, the driver, over whom the strike recently occurred, has been suspended for a month for overrunning signals. DISHONEST WORKMEN. Marsh and Yarwood, workmen at Brunner, Mond Company’s, have been arrested on a charge of trafficking with foreigners, regarding secret papers dealing with the firm’s experiments. Yarwood was fined £IOO, and sentence on Marsh was deferred, ! ponding other charges. THE FRENCH PRESIDENCY. Paris, December 29. Much interest is being attached to i the rivalry between M. Ribot and M. ; Poincaire for the Presidency. They ’ meet together to-morrow. M. Clemen- [ ceau supports M. Ribot. SELLING SECRETS. Berlin, December 29. ! Koehler, a draughtsman at Casscl, ! has been arrested for attempting to . sell drawings of airship telemeters to i Britain and Russia. 1 ; STOLYPIN’S ASSASSINS. 5 St. Petersburg, December 29. s ' As a result of the assassination of Stolypin, Kuljabko has been sentenced ’ at Kieff to sixteen months’ iraprison- . rnent for neglectful administration of i the police fund and forgery of vouchers. ; A HOLOCAUST. A workmen’s home at Moscow has been burnt down, and fourteen persons burnt to death. SLEEPING SICKNESS. Capetown, December 29. Several cases of sleeping sickness have been reported at Salisbury,