GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 80, 11 April 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

THE PUTUMAYO ENQUIRY

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Assoc a ox. i (.Received 12._’0 p m ) j mic'oii, Ap-il iv). Captain W’mfii'i, win. u.i- a-i-a:>d by Senor Arm, w. I :eu b-r oidcnce at tho Putumiyo co pin .>lk'i nil! be heard next week. '* THE U.S.A. NAVY. Washington, Apir 10 Mr Franklin, Assiscant-Soeretary to tho Navy, under President Roosevelt, announced to T he Navy meeting that the Government had ' delei mined to provide a large and efficient navy for tho United States, but that tho details had not been settled. TRUST AND LOAN CO. London, April 10. The British-Australasian Trust and Loan Company has declared a dividend of 5 per cent and a bonus of 2 per cent. A GERMAN SENSATION.

Berlin, April 9. Remarkable detective work lias revealed that a schoolboy named Ticrnann, supposed to hate committed suicide in October, was murdered. Suspecting a maid-servant named Heinrichs, Detective Schwarz . gained the girl’s affection, and Heinrichs confessed that the boy surprised her lover, Schultz, burglaring her mother’s flat, whereupon Schultz strangled him, and suspended Tiemann from a curtain pole. Heinrichs lias been arrested. LLOYD’S QUARTERLY REGISTER. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, April 10. Lloyd’s register for-the quarter ended March shows that 563 vessels, of 2,063,694 tons burthen, were under construction, which is a record. ST. GOTHARD CONVENTION. . London, April 10. Berne states that the Council has ratified the Gothard Convention. ON THE BURMA FRONTIER. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Calcutta, April 10. Chinese troops attacked a surveying party on the Burma frontier, but were repulsed. The British had few casualties.