MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 15072, 2 January 1913, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, Walter Sykes, a laborer, lias confessed that he was the perpetrator of the murder of two children at" Kimebrworth, England, on November 16. The suffragettes deny that they were responsible for tying the railway signals at Potterbar. They state that Mis' Pankhurst has ordered that human life shall be respected. A petrol reservoir has been washed ashore at Ostend. It belonged tofhe late Mr Cecil Grace's aeroplane, which was wrecked in 1910.

The first navy airship base has been inaugurated on the Jsle of Grain, in KentMrs Winston Churchill opened the Children's Welfare Exhibition at Olympia. ]t illustrates every phase and interest of child life, and includes the world's largest Christmas tree, which is illuminated bv 1,000 electric lights. A special committee, of the General Federation of Trade Unions advises the adoption of a comprehensive general insurance scheme on a sound actuarial basis. The details are withheld.

At Sydney W. J. Chidley, who was remanded last week on a charge of offensive behaviour, has been ordered to enter into two sureties for £4O to be of good behaviour for 12 months, in default three months' imprisonment. M. Pirou, the reputedly wealthy Mayer of Gentilly, has been arrested on a charge of attempting to murder Madame Chabrux, widow of a banker, and her sister. The evidence is circumstantial, but it is admitted that Pirou carried on loan negotiations with the late banker prior to his death.

Sir Francis Foxe's report to the Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral states ihat immediate remedial measures are imperative to secure the sa'ety of the cathedral, owing to a serious sinking of the subsoil. Eight piers supporting the dome have sunk from 4in to 6in.

Owing to a short circuiting oi' the current in the Piccadilly tube (London), the passengers were greatly alarmed. TJiav were compelled to alight in the i;;nnel and proceed to the nearest station. Traffic was delayed for an hour.

Dr Batut, a retired army doctor at Blidah (Algiers), found his wife talking to Lieutenant Gavet. After a violent quavrel Dr Batut shot both of them dead.

The Indian Budget shows a big surplus. Two Queensland aborigirals quarrelled, and subsequently one. named PaddyFlynn, fatalby shot the other (named Roderick) through the head when he was asleep. It is understood that Great Britain proposes to terminate the 1911 Chinese opium agreement unless the importers' position is relieved.

The New South Wales police have no clue to the perpetrators of the Surry Hills bank robbery,, and are convinced that it was the work of foreign cracksmen. An expert opinion ns that the gang must have included ;i practical locksmith,. The police are nonplussed, and are now awaiting clues. The ship at Cherbourg which was proceeding toan anchorage, but was prohibited for reasons of national defence and ordered to return to the roadstead, proves to be a German cable steamer. The captain has explained that he anchored outside the jetty, being unaware of the prohibition. A party of three youths committed suicide in a Vienna cafe with prussic acid. Their motive is unknot™. The youths all loved the same girl, wlio is a;'mere child. She admits that they had threatened to commit suicide on her account.

Mr J. D. Rockefeller is eluding subpoenas citing him to appear before the Money Trust Investigation Committee. Detectives are watching the millionaire's residences.