GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 86, 2 October 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

WOMAN BURIES LIVING BABY. By Cable—PreM Association—Copyright. Paris, September 2ft. A woman was arrested while burying a baby alive in the cemetery. She was suspected of a similar crime in 1910. DISAPPEARANCE OF COLD. Capetown, iScptember 20. The commission appointed to inquire into the disappearance of gold during treatment in the East Rand cyanide plant has been withdrawn, the East Kami Company having agreed to hold an inquiry under the company law, similar to that provided .by the' terms of the commission. ACCIDENT IN A DOCKYARD. London, September 29. Through the bursting of a compressed air torpedo cylinder at Portsmouth Dockyard one man was killed and nine seriously injured. VIOLENT ANGLOPHOBIA. Berlin, September 29. Mr. Reginald McKenna's speech at Abcrliyriian has resulted in violent Anglophobia comments in newspapers. A semi-official notification states that the roport telegraphed to Berlin was a fabrication. [Mr. McKenma said he hoped they would l>e able to effect a reduction in the Naval Estimates in 1912, but now and always the scale of expenditure was dependent on that of foreign countries, the extent of our world-wide interests inevitably brings us time after time in contact with the aims, hopes, and ambitions of other countries.]