GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 83, 15 April 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A MISSING BANKER. | [By Electric Telegraph— Copyright] | [United Press Association.] New York, April 18. |] Newspapers report the disappearj, ance of an official of a great city !• bank, which is believed to be the Bank of England. South American, ! Algoma, and Hudson Bay bonds, valued at £3500, are missing, and it is ; rumoured that other securities arc missing, the loss running into five figures. • CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. Paris, April 13. | Charles Eugene Carbanneau, a Canadian, was arrested on landing at Boulogne, charged with embezzling £BO,I 000. EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED. Montreal, April 14. A Grand Trunk excursion train has been wrecked. Several people were killed, and 15 injured. EXTENSIVE JEWEL ROBBERY. London, April 14. Two armed burglars have been captured in possession of £4OOO worth of jewellery at Tunbridge Wells. AN AUSTRIAN LOAN. Vienna, April 13. Austria is contracting a State railway loan of 122,000,0'v?“J marks from German banks. OVER-TAXED GERMANS. Berlin, April 13. The iKollnische draws attention to a remarkable exodus from the capital to Switzerland, which is attributed largely to the prospective war levy on property. A DESERTING FIREMAN. London, April 13. James Kelly, fireman, for deserting the steamer Tropic at Sydney, was ordered to forfeit £97 10s, wages due, and also to pay the White Star Company £5 for loss in engaging a substitute. A CONVICT RISING.

New York, April 13,

Convicts at Lansing, Kansas, tired the prison buildings in an endeavour to escape. Women criminal lunatics were frantic at the sight, and fought the warders. I They were forcibly dragged out of the cells arid removed elsewhere. ; Six hundred ■ ‘convicts acted as volunteer firemen. Many were injured. The prison was' partially destroyed. WAR AGAINST OVERTIME. London, April 13. The Postal Telegraph Clerks’ Association has voted for a fighting policy against systematic overtime, apart from emergency overtime. The Association accused officials of seeking to kill the agitation for a seven-hour day. MISSING BONDS FOUND. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, April 14. The missing Bank of England bonds have been found.