GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 24 April 1937, Page 10

GENERAL CABLES

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LONDON, April 22

Charles Morrow, after conviction - for smuggling and the imposition of a fine of £lOO or six months’ imprisonment, at Dowra County, Leitrim leapt from the dock. He sprinted and outdistanced his pursuers, plunged into the river Shannon and swam to the other side. He headed for the Cuileagh Alountains on the boundary of the Free State and Ulster. BOMBAY, April 22. The liner Strathmore, when berthing, crashed against a jetty crumpling up six feet of the bows above the waterline. The vessel is dry-docking and it is hoped that temporary repairs will enable her to complete the last of the Coronations sailings from India to London. TOKIO, April 22. Fifty-one. fishermen were drowned and IrO are missing, believed to be dead, in a typhoon which struck the Japanese herring fishing fleet in the Sea of Okhotsk. CAPE TOWN, April 22Bagahkametsi, the divot'eed wife of Chief Tshekedi, pleaded guTty in the District Commissioners’ Court at Serowe, to a. charge of practising witchcraft- Three natives, allegedly witch-doctors, also pleaded guilty. Bagahkametsi was accused of attempting to bewitch and injure the Queen. Mother Semane. because she thought -Semane was attempting to alienate Tshekedi's affections from her.

Evidence was given that Bagahkametsi and the witch-doctons arranged to put love philtres in Tshekedi’s tea.