MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 15065, 23 December 1912, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

M. Berger, a German millionaire cattleraiser, was found robbed and hanged in a railway carriage. A farm hand in deceased's employ is suspected. Zeppa, the German aeroplanist. was befogged, and descended on Maine (France). The aeroplane was seized, and Zeppa placed under surveillance.

John Crozier, ex-High Sheriff at Fertinaz, and his wife, who is the stepmother, were charged with manslaughter by causing the death of Crozier's son, aged 17 years, through innutritiou6 food, and with ill-treating two younger children. Mrs Crozier was sentenced to 12 years' and her husband to 5 years' imprisonment. The John Aird Company sought damages in connection with the construction of a dock at Singapore. The case occupied 42 days before the Chancery Division in London, judgment being reserved. The total legal exepnses were equivalent to £7 per minute.

Lieutenant Graetz traversed the course of, the Chambezi. Northern Rhodesia proved to be the source of the Congo. He intends to. organise an Anglo-German airship expedition to explore New Guinea.

A committee of the, Privy Council reserves the right of tho ultimate decision in respect to Evans and Leigh, the suffragettes who were sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment for quitting Dublin without notifying the police. As the outcome of a quarrel over some land at Giles Plains, Frederick Ruskin waylaid and fatally assaulted a neighbor named Hilbrand, aged 72 years, with an adze. Ruskin has surrendered to the police. The steamer Natal has sailed with Mr Whitelaw Reid's remains aboard. She was accorded naval honors, and minute guns were fired.

A German ship at Cherbourg, which v/as surreptitiously proceeding to anchorage, was prohibited for reasons of national defence, and ordered to return to the roadstead. .

Fifteen boats foundered in the Caspian Sea. Forty-one fishermen are missing. As the result of a collision between two aeroplanes, M. Delcasse's (French Minister of Marine) son received a fractured arm, collar-bone, and kneecap, while his pilot was also severely injured. Grace Fexrer, a suffragette and teacher, was fined £lO, or the alternative of six weeks' imprisonment, for damaging letters in the post office box at Peckham. A large underground station is being built at Charing Cross, London, to connect with the Bakerloo and Hampstead Eailways.