GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 59, 11 March 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

EXCISE FUNDS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Paris, March 9. Four distillers at Cambria have been lined £-30,000 for defrauding the excise. MURDER IX PERSIA. Teheran, March 8. An unknown Persian, running alongside the carriage, fired shots at M. Constant, the Belgian Director of Customs at Bushire, killing his wife and seriously wounding M. Constant.

FLOODS AT RIO. Rio de Janeiro, March 9. Unprecedented seas destroyed the quay extension and invaded the streets flooding many residences. WARNING FOREIGN AIRCRAFT. t The War Office is experimenting with rockets suitable for warning foreign aircraft against making observation. COMPULSORY INSURANCE. The Hague, March 8. The Second Chamber has adopted a Bill for the compulsory insurance of all workmen against old ago and sickness.

AN ATTORNEY ON TRIAL. New York, March 9. : At Los Angeles, in the case of Attorney Barrow, who was accused of bribery in connection with the defence of the dynamiters who were tried for the Times building outrage, the jury disagreed. A hew trial has been ordered. AMENDING THE STANDING ORDERS. Budapesth, March 9. To combat obstruction, the Government has introduced standing orders imposing fines on refractory members. ANOTHER GERMAN HOAX. Berlin, March 9.

A man in officer’s uniform called and inspected the municipal books at Sutterhausen, and finding that there was a sum amounting to several thousand marks above the correct amount, took the money with the official’s consent allegedly to the Minister of Finance at Berlin. Municipal officers subsequently discovered they had been robbed.

SHIPBUILDING AT A LOSS. The Vulcan Shipbuilding Co.’s report -shows a less of £IOO,OOO on the ships built for the navy in 1912. It states that ordbrs for large vessels in the navy and mercantile marine we real ways placed on terms involving a loss to builders. THE GERMAN WAR-TAX. ' . The Cologne Volkslcitung states that in order to prevent the sending of capital abroad to evade the war-tax, the banks will bo compelled to divulge Customers’ accounts. Paris, March 9. Advices from Rubat state that natives’on attacking the French camp at Wedzem lost 190 killed and 00 wounded.

GERMAN COTTON CULTIVATION IN EAST AFRICA. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Berlin, March 9. The Reichstag voted £IO,OOO for cotton cultivation in East Africa. It was stated that Germany must follow England’s lead and compete with America.