GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 17, 18 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TARDY DISCHARGE OF BUTTER

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

London, January 17

The Colonial Committee has written to the Peninsular and Orient Company

protesting at the slow discharge at Tilbury Docks of butter which arrived oh Saturday and is still undelivered.

NARROW ESCAPE OF FOUNDERING.

The steamer Alrneran had a thrilling experience in the Atlantic. A hurricane smashed her steering gear, killed a sailor, and stove in the hatches. She had a narrow escape of foundering. ' EMIGRATION. • The Central Employed Body attribute the increased expenditure of £6438, compared with that of 1911, to the diversion of emigrants from Canada to Australia and New Zealand, coupled with the increased fares.

JACK JOHNSON OUT ON BAIL

New York, January 17

Johnson has been released on bailHe complained that he was incarcerated in the death cell of the county gaol, and spooks haunted him at nights. They danced on the floor and tapped on the walls. He would rather jump off a sky-scraper than .c----peat his experience.

ESPIONAGE

Berlin, January 17

A youth named Worg has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for attempting to sell to France plans and information of Strasburg’s defence.

A civilian soldier has been arrested at Dantzig for attempting to sell France the lock of a military carbine.

Another civilian has been arrested at Ostrowo on a charge of espionage. St. Petersburg, January 17.

A cavalry captain has been arrested at Sosnowice for espionage in German interests.

WRECK OF THE VERONESE. f

London, January 17

The total loss was enormous. Seas washed the decks, making it impossible to use the rocket lines for hours. The breeches buoy arrived aboard at seven o’clock, when eighty-four had already been saved. Sixteen were drowned through the breaking of the cable.

The work of rescue continues slowly*

RECENT RUSSIAN UKASE

St. Petersburg, January 17

A sensation has been caused by the curt language of the ukase, which was issued against the Dowager’s wish. The Grand Duke Michael, who has taken a villa at Nice, hitherto lived on a property at Orel as Count Brasoff. The Countess first’ married Zemstvo, a doctor, who was then an army officer of the Grand Duke Michael’s regiment, who divorced her.

ECHO OF TITANIC DISASTER

Rome, January 17

The authorities are unable to* trace the winner of £60,000 in the National lottery, and it is believed the person was lost in the Titanic disaster.

THE INSURANCE ACT,

London, January 17

Of 21 million insured persons, 85,000 claimed the unemployment benefit under the Insurance Act.

FIRE AT RUBBER WORKS

Leyland’s Rubber Worfks at Bir-i mingham was burnt, and 700 people are workless.

The British steamers Auchenarden and Labranca collided in a fog in the Mersey. The Auchenarden sank, the crew being picked up by the Labranca, which had previously rescued another shipwrecked crew.

THE CHAIN OF EMPIRE,

Johannesburg, January 17

Mr. Lionel Phillips, at a Unionist meeting ,said that the growth of reactionary feelings made South Africa the weak link in the chain of Empire.