GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 81, 5 December 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.;

San Francisco, December 2

The Moana sent a wireless message that eleven of the crew of the schooner Alvaredo, bound for Antafagasta, arc marooned at Easter Island, after abandoning the Alvaredo. The captain and several volunteers sailed in a lifeboat for Papeete, leaving the others to await rescue. . REVENGEFUL PATHANS. Delhi, December 2. Two Pathans have been sentenced to death at Ghelum for .murdering LanceCorporal Bartlett, of the ,17th Lancers, in a Wazirahad train, in revenge for the death of a notorious Pathan rifle thief who was killed by the military in 1908. TROPICAL DISEASES. London, December 2.

The Bishop of Frodsharn, presiding at a meeting of the Research Defence Society at Nottingham, said Australia’s precauions against alien diseases were admirable. The Institute of Tropical Diseases promised to lay the horrible spectre of disease threatening Englishmen settling in Tropical Australia. THEFT OF PAPER MONEY. Brussels, December 3. A hag containing paper money to the value of £17,500 was stolen between Brussels and Yerviers, while in transit from the National Bank of Belgium to Cologne. A DOCTOR’S DEATH. London, December 3. Evidence at the inquest showed that the death of Dr. Dimock was due to an overdose of morphine.. A verdict was returned of suicide while temporarily insane. (A cablegram, dated October 31, said that Dr. Dimock, an insurance panel doctor at Wisbeach, was recently remanded on a charge of criminal libel on the information of the local chairman, of the Medical Association. Dr. Dimock was found dead in bed and two thousand sympathisers demonstrated and smashed the windows o! the houses of the chairman and another doctor. Disturbances continue, and police reinforcements have been summoned).

.THE COLOR LINE.

Times —Sydney Sun Special Cables

Ottawa, December 3. Five hundred and seventy-one Japanese have arrived in British Columbia in the last six months. Their movements are being watched closely, ft the number is likely to increase the British Columbian Government will protest to Japan.