GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 32, 6 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE MADGEBURG FIRE. (By Electric Telegrapn.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, February 5. The fire on the Madgeburg at Coruna has been extinguished. The 4th hold was flooded. LABOUR PARTY’S PROTEST. Mr Keir Hardie has received a cablegram from the Labour Party in New Zealand repudiating Mr Allen’s offer of an expeditionary force. AUSTRALIAN DIAMONDS. The Hague, February 5. j A number of Belgian and Dutch | capitalists have founded an Australian diamond syndicate in Amsterdam to finance prospecting in New South Wales, where options have been acquired. A RADICAL PROTEST. London, February 5. The Reform Club blackballed Baron de Forrest on his applying for membership. Prominent Radicals demand that the rejection shall be rescinded otherwise they will form a new club. Mr Lloyd George and Mr Churchill have already resigned, and Sir Edward Grey and Mr Harcourt threaten also to do so.

PARIS MOTOR MURDERS. Paris, February 5. The President examined Dieudonne, who is accused of an attack on a bank clerk on December 21st, 1911. He pleaded an alibi. The president rejoined that a man named Blanchet, who had been assassinated, had stated that he could prove that the alibi was false, and that the assassin was a man named Bill, who was still unarrested. Dieudonne replied that Blanchet and Bill loved the same girl. The President said that the girl denied this. Dieudonne remained silent. Callemin, alias Raymond La Science, who is a mathematician, questioned regarding his boasts after arrest, replied that they were only jokes. He denied participating in the murders. POLICING THE SEA. London, February 5. The Government is negotiating with the principal Atlantic lines to jointly bearing the cost of equipping a vessel with a powerful wireless apparatus, to be stationed in the North Atlantic to report icebergs and other dangers, THE PYSCHE. Sydney, February 5. The cruiser Psyche, which was recently docked and overhauled, haiS been recalled from Hobart. It is stated that she sprang a leek and needs docking.