GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 74, 14 August 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

' CANADIAN BANK ROBBERY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Ottawa, August .12. Walter Davis .'has been arrested at Toronto on a charge of complicity in the bank robbery at New Westminster, British Columbia. Stolen notes were found in his possession. Davis is the fourth person arrested since the Australian, Maclc, was captured. The Pinkerton detectives declare that they now have sufficent evidence to convict all the accused. SENTENCED TO DEATH. Buda-Pesth, August 12. Jukies, a Bosman student, who last June shot at tho Royal Commissioner of Croatia as he was driving in a motor, but fatally wounded Herr Ilervoie, who was also in the motor, has been sentenced to death on a charge of murder, and five others to five years' imprisonment, while five other accused were acquitted. A RUSSIAN REVIEW. St. Petersburg, August 12. The Czar reviewed sixty /thousand / troops at Krasnoesel, and afterwards entertained M. Poincare at luncheom. A TRAGIC ACCIDENT, i Paris,- August 12. | William Anderson, the 18-year-old son of the general commanding the British i forces in South China, was run over by an express near Boulogne and killed, in the presence of his mother aud two brothers. WELSH COAL, j London, August 12. Welsh coal-owners'have secured foreign naval orders at a shilling per ton over the rate obtained in 1911. The rise la due to the necessity of meeting the increased cost of production. THE PORTUGUESE ROYALISTS. Lisbon, August 12. Brazil has offered to pay the passages for Portuguese Royalists in Spain. Tie Portuguese Government has thanked j Brazil for tlie offer, hoping it will solve | the difficulty with Spain.