GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 94, 25 August 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

o THE WHITEHEAD TORPEROES. PATENT MOTIVE POWER. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright I United Press Association J London, August 23. The Japanese cruiser Kongo is conveying 48 Whitehead torpedoes, which are propelled by the new motive powei and will travel 12,000 yards at the rat( of ,48 miles per hour. The United States, has plated a large order for these torpedoes. THE SOMALILAND TROUBLE. The Government does not intone to send a punitive expedition t< Somaliland. THE HOP CROP. The preliminary estimate for th< hop crop for the United. Kingdom i. that it will be three-fifths to four fifths of that of 1912. MURDER BY OUTLAWS. Rome, August 23. A band of outlaws at Palerm( have murdered a well-to-do Siciliar, family, consisting of a father, mother, four sons and a. daughter, who were suspected of acting as police spies. WONDERFUL WIRELESS. London, August 22. Speaking at the Marconi Go's, meeting, Mr Godfrey Isaacs said the dav not far distant when people at breakfast on board ship would he able to exchange wireless shore messages with friends ashore, a WESLEYAN CENTENARY. The sum of £200,000 lias heen raised towards the £260,000 required for the celebration of the Wesleyan Missionary Society's centenary in October. HORSE-MAIMING OUTRAGES. (Received 9 a.m.) London, August 24. Another liorse has been maimed at Wedncsbury, near the scene of the [previous outrage. ACQUITTED. Mr Albert French, local secretary of the National Union of Sailors and [Firemen, who was arrested after the .fatal affray at Glasgow, in which Jamles Martin was shot, has been acquitted. JOHNSON, THE PUGILIST. (Received 11.40 a.m.) Johnson is in London. He declares that ho will certainly fulfil his music hall engagements. [FRENCH ARMY "MANOEUVRES. Paris, August 23. Field-Marshal Sir John French and the British Army Mission have spent . [several days at the manoeuvres at iChalona and Rheims, and also in- . 'spected the military camps there as [the guesta of the Minister for War.