GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, 13 January 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

COLLISION AT SEA

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

(United Press /Association.)

Copenhagen, January 12

The Danish steamer Axel collided with and sank a German tugboat off Cuxhaven. Six men were drowned.

CRIMINAL’S BAD RECORD

Berlin, January 12,

Police have identified Schoene Buckow, the murderer, with the notorious criminal Sternickel, us being wanted for murder in Silesia in 1905, and also for a series of daring robberies. One of the accomplices to the Bnckow murders confessed. The mob attacked and badly mauled Sclioene on the way to gaol.

FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY

AFFAIR

Paris, January 12

Parliamentary circles are excited owing dc Clam, who'was prominent in the Dreyfus case, being reinstated in the territorials.

M. Miller explained to the Cabinet that he took the whole responsibility, and has tendered his resignation. The Cabinet is considering the matter.

STRUCK OIL. (Received 9.35 a.ra.) London, .January 12. Good petroleum lias been found near Newark. RECRUITING AT PORTSMOUTH. There is a recruiting boom at Portsmouth. Recruits are also unusually plentiful elsewhere, owing to Mr. Churchill’s improved conditions. EMPIRE POULTRY EXHIBITION, The National Poultry Club discussed the question of raising £3OOO for the purpose of an Empire Exhibition at the Olympia in 1913, and if not conflicting with the annual show, it is hoped to make the exhibition the finest on record.

THE KAISER AT A FIRE

Berlin, January 12

A defective chimney caused a fire in the new palace at Potsdam. The Kaiser assisted to extinguish the outbreak. Some valuable furniture was damaged.