GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 76, 4 August 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE KJR.UPP SCANDAL. [By Eleoteio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] , Berlin, August 2. Lieutenant Brand has been under the strictest observation by detectives for three months. He is not an educated man, but is highly intelligent, and served in the technical department of the army. Brand gave evidence that he was quite unconscious of doing wrong. His evidence is less incriminating against the officers than at the preliminary enquiry, and he was sharply cross-ex-amined with regard to the discrepancies. » ' Krupp’s directors denied that the firm ever used information about competitors’ prices in order to raise their own charges. CASE OF BLACKMAIL. London, August 2. Heinrich Kremmerskothen, a Welldressed youth, has been remanded on a charge of blackmail. The prosecution stated that Lord Rothschild received a, letter demanding £30,400 sterling for a certain society, and suggesting an answer byadvertisement in The Times. The letter threatened that if the recipient notified the police or did not comply with the demand, Lord Rothschild and his relatives would bo killed. A detective gave evidence that an advertisement was inserted agreeing to the terms, and a parcel of bogus money was hidden in the wall of a Coventry Street restaurant, where he watched and arrested accused ( after a severe struggle.

THE PEARL NECKLACE HUNT Paris, August 2.

M. Nidausse, assistant chief detective, has informed Salomons, the consignor, that his enquiries showed that the pearl necklace was not stolen in the post. The outer seals were intact, and could only be fixed in London. The inner seals were intact when the package arrived, and it wan evident either that the theft occurred at Salomon’s house in Paris, and the thief’s accomplice in London affixed wax seals similar to Salomon’s, or it was committed in London after the package left the post office, and before it» delivery at Mayer’s office. SCARCITY OF GOLD COINAGE. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Paris, August 3. Owing to the scarcity of gold coins, the Bank of France is converting her gold reserves into 20-franc pieces. BAPTIST AND MILITARISM. St. Petersburg, August 3. The Novo Vremya states that owing to their refusal to take the military oath, the Government is considering the proclamation of Baptists as a sect harmful to the State. THE SPECTRE OF POVERTY. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, August 3. As the outcome of poverty, a brothei of Tom Gallon, the novelist, shot hi wife and child dead, and then committed suicide.