GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 27, 31 January 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

THE MALAY WARSHIP. Mu' Churchill states that the Malay gift warship has already been commenced. A COUP THAT FAILED. Lisbon, January 30. Eighty persons in a fortress at Nonsants bored a tunnel to a field where soldiers awaited their exit and captured them, wounding some. GOLD ROBBERY ON A LINER. Madrid, January 30. .A box containing £4OOO, part of a consignment of £50,000, was stolen from the Hamburg-American liner Capblanco between Rio de Janiero and Vitno. KING LEOPOLD’S ESTATE.

Brussels. January 30

Princess Clementine has accepted the Government’s offer of a quarter of a million, but Princesses Louise and Stephanie. are claiming 2;] millions from King Leopold’s estate.

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY

London, January 30

The Board of Trade declares that the Midland Railway violated the 1911 agreement in only one of the twenty alleged victiansations.

GREY OR KHAKI

(Received 11.30 a.m.) London, January 30,

The Pall Mall Gagette states it is rumoured that in order to economise, the War Office is considering the substitution of grey or kharki for scarlet as the only wear for infantry except the Guards.

The statue of King Charles at Charing Cross was decked with wreaths on the anniversary of his execution.