GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1917, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

J 'X PRINCE COMMITS MURDER, Aostralian-N.Z. Cable Association. Petrogrnd, January 2. The iloatli of the monlc Rasputin is definitely announced. It is reported that he was murdered by .Prince Yousjsonpofi, who is related to the Imperial family, and married the daughter of the [rirnnd Duke Alexander Micliaelovitck The Prince is frail and weakly, and his friends say that only an overpowering motive eould have inducted him to kill Rasputin. London, Jan. 2. A correspondent at Petrograd says tho police traced a blood-stained track from Prince Yusupoff's Palace to a newly-cut ice hole in the Neva. Divers recovered the body of Kasputin. Domestics at the palace informed the police that the blood was due to the shooting of a mad dog, exhibiting the body of the animal. jPrinee Yusupoff left 'Petrograd after Rasputin's disappearance for his Crimean estates and returns on Monday. The Paris Journal points out that the Germans used Kasputin as a tool. The Gormanophile Stumor clung to office through him whilst the Grand Duke Nicholas suffered. TUBERCULOSIS. - •' Sydney, Jan. 3. The report of a committee concerning death and invalidity shows that tuberculosis is still too prevalent, resulting in 3574 deaths during 191(1.