Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 30, 6 October 1913, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

rBt:EuEO*MOITELEG»APH— COPYBIGHT ' lUmTED PRESS AsSOOIATION.I ..,..,.. London, October 4.

| -The Daily Chronicle states that the Marconi Company, will erect long distance stations at Sheffield and Buenofi AyVes, equipped with eighteen masts, each six hundred feet long, thereby testing the Mareoni-Goldschmidt machines. DUELLING IN FRANCE. Paris, October 4. Dorcieres, a journalist, in- exposing the mamin drug habit in the French Navy atacked certain officers. Rapue, formerly an army doctor, retaliated, and fought Dorcieres, who has fought more duels than any other Frenchman. He was thrice wounded, finally severely, and at the eighth assault the seconds intervened. THE COLOR LINE.

Johannesburg, October 4

The authorities decline to arrest Indian women passive resistors. A magisteajte nominally penalised unlicensed fcawkers and declared he was not going to make them martyrs. THE PRINCES' TRUST. Berlin, October 4. ; Th© vigorous intervention of the Deutsche-Bank saved, the Princes' Trust from ruin and a consrquent gravo calamity to the German financial industrial interests. ■% statement hy the Deutsche Bank discloses • reckless transactions on the part of the Princes' Trust.

: EMPTYI»fC THE PRISONS.

(Received 9.35 aJm.) October 5

The Prisons report shows that there were -"nearly 10,000 fewer ' prisoners Sentenced than in tho preceding year, "and iOO.OOO lewer were tried. ESCAPED 'PRISONER SHOT. *^ :i ' .'-': "(Received a,m f ) ■;!"!"'•;■' '' r '.], !'■>'' V- London, .October; 5. la4sn ambushed .Jones,, the ( v»#ica > pea , i pt-isoheit : near' Ruthin Prison. m .' JonW T wus'" much '■ emaciafed' after. five ~;'; tdays' jprivatipni, but attacked tho lads i.j^wi^^iPair-of shears. Refusing to surrender, he. was. shot in the legs, and lt in ; twenty, minutes; .) ; , . . ' ;

THE COST OF LIVINC.

London, October 5. !

The/Postal and telegraphic Fedaration Committee, representing 80,000 members, resolved to send a, deputation: (Messrs and Sai'nuel). io \proteit' agamst 'a''Select Committee's report. They demand fifteen per cent. c Ucf eases ; to" meet' the increased cost of living, and will inaugurate a nasupport their demands. ROYALTY. "•'■■■;•':'.' " *: Berlin, October 5. The Portuguese Government / has protested' against ex-King Manoel's wife taking the title of Queen. DESPERATE RUSSIAN THIEVES. St. Petersburg, October 5. Thieves robbed a house at Werehcudmsk in trans-Baikalia of £IO,OOO. The • police made a house-to-house search until.they discovered the gang. The robbers fired, killing three and wounding two police. One thief was killed and one was arrested. The rest escaped. L „, -,. j;