GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 6 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE OPIUM TRADE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Delhi, January I. Owing to stocks of opium in Shanghai and elsewhere, the Government has suspended opium sales until the absorption of the accumulation. This will inflict a heavy loss on the Indian revenue. THEFT AND MURDER. Chicago, January 4. Four automobile bandits wrecked a jeweller’s window and escaped with a tray of diamonds. A fashionable woman fainted in the arms of a policeman, prevented his drawing a revolver, and' then vanished. She is snjvposed to be an accomplice. Later the policeman stopped an automobile on a charge of furious driving. The inmates invited the policeman aboard, shot him, threw out his body, and escaped. TRAIN AND MOTOR CAR. London, January 5. While conveying gold to pay wages at Purfleet a motor car struck a railway crossing. A passing train smashed the ear. The occupants were uninjured, but tbe gold was scattered, and £3O are missing.