GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

SEVERE SENTENCE ON A SPY. (United Press Association.) (United Press Association.) i (Received 8.5 a.m.) Berlin, March 4. Heinrich Naujoks was sentenced to thirteen years’ imprisonment at Leipzig for selling German cruiser plans to foreign agents, acting for France. HARDENED CRIMINALS. The trial has began at Frankfort of Sternickel, two brothers Kerstens, and a third man Schewnz, were accomplices. i Sternickel coolly related the story of the murders, and pleaded that he only intended to partially strangle his victim and had not realised tha|; he had killed the victims. SALVING THE STAR OF AUSTRALIA !i liIA. •

The Admiralty Court has awarded £4300 to the owners of the steamer Glenlochy and £ISOO to the officers in connection with the salving of the ' Star of Australia.

ANTIPATHY TO FOREIGNERS’ METHODS. •

Paris, March 14

There is a growing agitation among shopkeepers and dressmakers against a foreign firm for reproducing their gowns, jewellery, and furniture, and Lepine, chief of police, has instructed the police to arrest anyone copying designs in shop windows for race meetings, and to confiscate the sketches and photographs. .

STEAM LIGHTER RUN DOWN. NINE OF THE CREW DROWNED. (Received 10.30 a.m.) ' New York, March It. An unknown vessel ran down a steam lighter in Wickoff Harbour, and nine lightermen were drowned. SERIOUS MELEE AT CHRISTIAN SOCIALISTS’ MEETING. Students interfered with a meeting of Christian Socialists, and fifty persons were injured in the melee, some seriously. t THE KHEDIVE’S CONSORT DISAPPEARS. (Received 11.15 a.m.) London, March 11. The Glasgow Herald records ;/ sensation in Cairo. The Khedive’s consort, who js an Austrian, disappeared and has not been traced. Every effort was made to keep the matter a secret, CYCLONE IN BUENOS AYRES. (Received 11,4.0 a.m.) Buenos Ayres, March 14, In a cyclone several persons were killed and many injured. Great damage was done to property.