GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 99, 20 April 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

CAPTURE OF JEWEL THIEVES

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Uniter Frebb Association.] Paris, April 18. Suspects wore seen following a jewellers’ representative, whose cart somc>times contained £-10,000 worth of (jewels. The capture of the Jiang was [pre-arranged. The cart was momen- | tardy abandoned in the Place V enclome. A man rushed out, forced the lock, and stole £16,000 worth. He was arrested, and proved to be Count .Montgelas, a native of Berlin, “wanted” for thefts in England, Spain and Italy. hive companions, including i-lordan .Nation, of Johannesburg, and also the Countess, were arrested.

CLUB-SWINGING RECORDS

London, April 17. ‘‘‘Tour’ Burrows is attempting at Devonport to destroy the eighty hours’ club swinging record at ninety revolutions a minute.

THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK

New York, April 18. It now appears that the assaijant of the Mayor was Michael Mahony, not Rose. He declares that he was aggrieved at the city’s extravagant expenditure.

STRENGTHENING ST. PAUL’S.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, April 17. Experiments having proved successful, it is probable that liquid cement will be injected by compressed air into the sub-soil under St. Paul’s, to strengthen the foundations.

navy defalcations.

London, AP 1 ’ 1 '- 17. As a sequel to Fleet-Pay master Lowry’s defalcations, Captain Cayley and Commander Rideout, both of HALS. Ganges, were court-martiallc-d for negligence in supervision of the accounts, and were reprimanded.

THIEF’S DESPERATE RUSE.

London, April 17. Whilst being examined, a woman in the Glasgow Police Court, charged with the theft of £l7 10s, the police said the seai’dr for the liioney' had proved unsuccessful. But X-ray treat, meat showed that she had swallowed fifteen sovereigns and five half-sover-eigns. VLh ’ '.'lo.

NEW ZEALAND IMMIGRANTS.

London,* April 17. One hundred an dthirty wives and families and fifty domestics sailed by the Rotorua for New Zealand.

FORGERY OF STAMPS.

Paris,' April 19. The design of the French postage stamp is being changed to a view of the Eiffel Tower, with an aeroplane living past, owing to -the present stamp, the design of a with outstretched arms lowing a field of corn, being too easily forged.