GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 62, 18 March 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

ARMY ESTIMATES

.By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrights (United Press Association.)

London, Mar ill 16. The Army estimates effective uor.effectivo services at £28,220,000, including the Territorials £2,815,000, and aviation £234,000, an increase of £7900.

ARREST OF A CRIMINAL

Paris, March 16

Thibault, Lacorabe’s accomplice in an attack on the Post Office at Bezon, has been arrested.

FISHERMEN RESCUED

The forty-five Astrakhan fishermen who were afloat on an , ice floe„ have been rescued.

BELGIUM ARMY SCANDALS

1 Brussels, March 16. I The inquiry into the army scandals j implicates several officials in connection with the payment of £200,000 for undelivered guns and ammunition.

THE JAPANESE BUDGET. Tokio, March 16. After stormy scenes, the Diet''by a majority of five adopted the Budget. London, March 16.

As the outcome of the Trevanion case, veronal and other hypnotic drugs have been placed in the poisons schedule. ENTOMBED MINERS. An inrush of water entombed two men in the Townhead mine, Cumberland, and they were feet through a borehole. The water had risen in the shaft 78 feet. Many pumps are at work reducing it.

THE TURAKINA

The Turakina’s insulation in Nos 1,2, and 3 holds is still on lire.

BLUE BOOK REVELATIONS

The newspapers are surprised at the Blue Book revelations.

Sir E. Grey imitiated Russia’s demand for the departure from Persia of Shuster, the American, who had charge of the country’s finances. Princess Christian, who is a member of the Insurance Act Advisory Committee, asked for njuch information respecting the working of maternity insurance, and demanded information respecting several'specified grievances. The Princess finally declared that the information was confusing, and that it was difficult to get it completed as there were wheels within wheels.

| YOUNG WOMAN KIDNAPPED. I London, March 16. | Dorothy Yanse, the daughter of the station master at Whitby, declares that she was drugged and kidnapped on the highway by two men and women in a motor car, and taken to Paris. Owing to the men quarrelling she was ' released, and her brother met her at Newhavcn.