GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1914, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

ENGINES FROM CERMANY. [By ELEcraTO Telegraph —CoPTEiaai] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.15 a.m.) London, February 18. The South Eastern Railway Company are importing locomotives from Germany owing to the pressure of orders in the British works. THE BRITISH TERRITORIALS. London. February IS. Colonel Seely's figures show a deficiency in the Territorials for January of twenty per cent. ORGANISATION OF CRIME. London, February 18. The Daily Mail's Capetown correspondent states that the Justice Department has issued a statement showing that native convicts have j been binding together in gangs for criminal purposes. A trial is held ;,iiil punishments decreed. The death sentence inflicted in some cases is by stabbing witli a sharpened nail, j by strangling with a wet towel, or Inputting powdered glass into their victim's food. The organisations, j which are chiefly Zulu, terrorise the ■ natives into membership. FOOTBALL BRIBERY CHARGES. London, February IS. Bioletti pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to five months' imprisonment. (A London cable of 11th December, slated that Pascal Bioletti, alias Paten, had been committed for trial in connection with football bribery charges.) BULLETS FROM THE BALKANS. Paris, February IS. Lead pipe manufacturers are collecting bullet-, on the Balkan battlefields. A vessel is unloading 2095 sacks, each weighing lOOlbs, at Marseilles. EXILI-D FROM HOME. (Received 11.-10 a.m.) Lima. February 18. Uillinghurst, ex-Minister for the Lienor, and his son have been exiled.

THE FASTOFF MYSTERY. St. Petersburg, February 18. Tiie mystery at Fast off has been cleared up. The Christian boy named Boris Taranenko. who was supposed to have been murdered, has been found alive. Two prisoners have been released on bail in connection with the alleged murder of the Jew boy, Josef Pasgkoff.