GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 January 1914, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

MARCONIGRAMS. [By Clectkio Telegraph—Cowmen id Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables Loudon, January 0. A license has been granted to enable the Marconi Company’s Poldhu station to connect a wireless commercial service with Spain.

POLICE INSPECTOR ON TRIAL

London, January [)

Inspector Rotter, charged with, after iirresting .Robert Atkinson, a suffragist, striking him cm the eye, saying: •We will serve you as Carpentier serv-

ed Wells,” was committed for trial, despite an emphatic denial of the assault.

LAND TROUBLE IN ITALY.

[United Press Association.]

Rome, January 10. Peasants at Paliana successfully asserted their right to cultivate parts, of a larger estate, but two of the landowners named Tucia, refused to yield. They were arrested after shooting from a window at a crowd of demonstrators. FOODSTUFFS FOR AMERICA. Washington, January 10. There lias been a marked increase in the importation of foodstuffs, especially of fresh beef and cattle, largely from England. Australia sent 580,000 pounds through Pacific, ports in November. According to the Department of Commerce, a large expansion of Australian supplies is likely. NEW PEER’S TITLE, London, January 10. Lord Bryce’s title is to ho that of Viscount Bryce of Dichmoimt.

COLD-STORED PRODUCE.

London, January 10

Sir William Watson, in a letter to the newspaper Grocer, suggests that all cold-stored butter and frozen meat should ho labelled as such, and sold in the same way as margarine.

THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT,

London, January 10. General Badon-Powcll is appealing for a quarter of a million for the boy scout movement. The Mercers Company, of which lie is a Master, contributes £I2OO. DEATH OF A CRifvllNAL. Paris', January 11. Mrs Gould, who was concerned in the Loving trunk murder at Monte Carlo in 1907, died at the Montpellier prison. Her husband died in 1909. GERMAN TRAGEDIES. Berlin, January 9. A builder named Bratz, together with his wife and sister, suicided at Soldan by gas poisoning. The bodies of live children and a dog were found with, their throats cut. The motive is alleged to he money troubles. Bratz’s wife, had donned mourning.

A policeman cut the throats of his throe little daughters, and then hanged himself, owing to a family quarrel. EXPLOSION AT A MINE. Xew York, January 11. An explosion, due to ooaldust, entombed 12 men in the Davis Creek Company’s mine, Alabama. Thirty others who were working near the entry escaped. Twelve bodies have been recovered. I ACCIDENT TO MOTOR BUS. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, January 11. A motor omnibus ■ conveying spectators to a football cup tie overturned at Ladbroke Grove. Twenty-one 'persons were taken to the hospital, but the conditions of- most is not serious. A DISASTROUS FLOOD. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Brussels, January 11. The Sen no overflowed its hanks, .and Hoods in'the Meuse Valley caused great damage. it stopped work in many factories and quarries.