GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 January 1914, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

THE CA.:UBE TRAGEDY. [B* Eleoteio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Hudapesth, January 13. ■ ■!(■ corpse has been identified as that o! Elsa Turesany, a well-known denumoiidaiue with a considerable fortune. She was strangled with a towel while asleep. three men :« .-., motor car came to Elsa's house on Friday, and took her away with them. She was wearing jewels worth iMin'-O. GALES s:; /-"ERiCA. Xew York. January 12. (-'ales are sweeping the whole of the Eastern Coast, and all shipping. is detained. During a binding snowstorm, a ferryboat containing 800 passengers collided with another vessel. The ferryboat, though damaged, reached her berth safely, but the passengers made a panic-stricken rush to get ashore, many being badly crushed and bruised. FA!LURE OF SWISS BANKS. Berne, January 13. The Credit Otienes Bank Ims suspended payment, and 6,400,000 francs capital and deposits are lost. It is also sa.ted that huge falsifications in the books have been made. The Bank fuer Handel und Industrie, of Zug, and several other smaller savings banks, failed recently ; owing to defalcations by the directors and managers. WORKMEN'S PALACE. London, January 13. An association of 120 smaller trade unions proposed to spend £55,000 in addition to £6394 annually on the erection of a so-called Workmen's Palace at Drury Lane. This will include a restaurant, cinematograph and meeting halls, a palm court for smoking, a lounge, and a luxurious billiard room. It is also proposed to supply provisions to the strikers at cost price, instead of issuing strike pay, thus enabling the union to save 3s 2d in every 10s. THE FAMINE IN JAPAN. Sydney, January 13. The Japanese authorities here consider the cabled statement that nine million people were suffering from famine in Japan was much exagger--1 ated, as the districts affected do no, I contain that number. They even consider if 900.000 was intended, that estimate is also too high. The famine is probably due to failure of crops.