GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 26, 29 January 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, January 28. The Marconi Comimttee will allow Marconi to reply fully to the various attacks. King, in his evidence, said that the Government intended to reply to Marconi’s request for release until experts reported, New York, January 28. Evidence given at the Government suit to dissolve the Steel Irust indicates that Mr. Carnegie had broken most of the pools arranged by the steel trade, but was unable to agree with another pool of members. The methods he followed led manufacturers to consider it a godsend if Carnegie were driven out of business.(.Received 8.0 a.m.) Paris, January 28. A house containing several families collapsed, burying most of the inmates. Four bodies were recovered. St. Petersburg, January 28. Three officials of the Supreme Court at Viborg were sentenced to sixteen months’ imprisonment and disqualified for a decade from holding office for resfsting the law equalising the status of Finns jmd Russians in Finland. The President of the Court was acquitted. (Received 10.20 a.m.) London, January 23. Mr. Churchill, replying to Mr. Archer Shee, said the places in which prisoners wer,e confined aboard the Torch were well ventilated, but wA'c used contrary to regulations. Berlin, January 28. The newspapers announce a reconciliation between the Kaiser and the Crown Prince. (Received 11.0 a.m.) London, January 28. All endeavours to secure the respite for Williams, who shot Inspector Wells, have failed, and he will be hanged to-morrow. (Received 12.50 p.m.) Rangoon, January 23. Through a river launch foundering, seventy persons were drowned. Pekin, January 28. ( Reports from numerous districts show a very great increase in the opium crops. Mr. C. E. W. Bqan read a paper before the Society of Arts on the wool industry in the British Dominions. Sir W. P. Reeves presided, and Messrs. T., Mackenzie and Jenkins also spoke. (Received 1.20 p.m.) London, January 28. Tho La Havre steamer Phyrne collided and sunk tbe German'ship Pangani outward bound from Hamburg to Valparaiso, off de Capo La Hague. Only four were rescued, and thirty were drowned.