GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 29, 3 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WHOLESALE DISMISSALS. j (By Electric TelegrapU.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Vienna, February 2. i All the workmen at the Whitehead torpedo works, at Fiume, have been dismissed, owing to several attacking and wounding the chief engineer during an altercation. A TORPEDO BOAT DAMAGED. London, February 2. A submarine cut a bole in a torpedo boat at Spithead. Her water-tight compartment® saved the vessel. The submarine was undamaged. CASTRO RELEASED. New York, February 2. Ex-President Castro has been released under the Habeas Corpus Act, ponding an appeal to the Courts of the United States. GUN-RUNNING. London, February 2. Admiralty advices from Lingah state that it is rumoured that a dhow, while gun-running near Hululiiand, encountered a Government cutter. The latter’s commander was shot. The dhou escaped. A ROYAL PIPER. Tlie Pall Mall Gazette says that the Prince of Wales is learning the bagpipes. Other undergraduates arc forming practising parties. A BANK MESSENGER ROBBED. Thieves attacked a bank messenger in the Rue Dauphine and robbed him of £2200. THE AGRA TRAGEDY. Agra, February 2. Budhu testified that he and the others of the gang, on the evening of the murder, discussed the plan with Dr. Clark and Mrs Fulham. He repeated his previous narrative of the crime. A BLIZZARD IN GERMANY. Berlin, February 2. A blizzard is raging hi Eastern Germany, and traffic to Berlin is impeded by the snow. The gale overturned a train in Saxony. One carriage was burned, but no fatalities occurred. The cruiser Augsburg was driven ashore at Sonderberg, hut was refloated.

A SOAP FIGHT. (Received 9.5 a.m.) London, February 2. The Observer states that a struggle is imminent Lever Bros, and Brunner, Mond and Co. in the soap trade. Lever Bros, arc launching new directions regarding raw material, and Brunner, Mond and Co. are inviting manufacturing through their interests in the Crossfields, which they purchased in 1911. MARAUDERS ATTACK FRENCH DETACHMENT. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Paris, February 2. Marauders attacked a detachment of Trialleurs in the Adrar district, in North-West Africa. The latter offered a heroic resistance, but lost heavily, including a lieutenant and three non-eoms. The officers were killed. A column of irregulars is in pursuit of the marauders.