GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 217, 12 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

CORRUPTION AMONO RUSSIAN OFFICERS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. St. Petersburg, March 10. At the trial of four colonels and two lieutenant-colonels, for corruption in the Army Supply Department, evidence was given that a Kiel Company spent £2,000,000 in bribes in 25 years, a single bribe sometimes amounting to £2500. A THIEVING POLICEMAN. 1 . Berlin, March 10. Glauss, a policeman, has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment and ten years' loss of honor, at Aurioh, for larceny. When being extradited from London, he pleaded not to be extradited, on the ground that he was wanted for espionage. ' BIG FIRE IN MOSCOW. St. Petersburg, March .10. Goloflejevsky Arcade at Moscow has been burned down. The damage is estimated at £IOO,OOO. A DERELICT DANGER. . London, March 10. The Illawarra is afloat in 50y 2 deg. nprtli, 12%deg. west, and is endangering navigation. AUTHOR CHARGED WITH BIGAMY. London, March 10. Hugo Lawrence Ames, the well-known author, and Florence Ames have been arrested for bigamy. They were married at Kensington after the Idaho divorce, of. which the first wife says she knows nothing.