GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 231, 18 February 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AXG LO-F It AX( '0 I.'ELAT lON S. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Paris, February Hi. | Loading newspapers are exercised about the increased German army and the Tirpitz-Churchill incident. Jacques iiardoux, in an article in the newspaper Opinion, urges 11. Poincairc and M. Joujtiart to visit London and conclude a fresh agreement. CANCER EXPERIMENTS. Copenhagen, February l(i. Professor Fibiger claims that his experiments prove cancer in rats to be due to eating cockroaches, in which a certain worm lays eggs. NATIVE RUNS AMOK. Delhi, February 10. A native constable, who was recently punished for drunkenness, ran amok, shot a policeman and vnlet, and then committed suicide. SALVATION AIDIY WINDFALL. London. February 10. Miss Sarah Leigh, of Tunbridge Wells, bequeathed £3700 for the personal use of the General of the Salvation Army. A POLICEMAN'S LAPSE. London, February 10. Walter Earl, a policeman, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment at Bow Street, for unprovokedly assaulting a warehouseman at'Covent Garden. COST OE LIVING. London, February 10. The Board of Trade reports that the purchasing power of a sovereign for food is now 10s 3d, as compared with 20s in 1895. A FALSE, REPORT. Berlin. February 111. Concerning Dr. Segel. of the Construe-1 tion Department, who was cabled had been arrested for sellinir plans of submarines to Engl a nd, the Lokal Auzeiger snys lie is accused of matrimonial swindles. not espionage.