MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.
The “Daily Express” Berlin correspondent states that Paul Betz, a madman, ran amok with daggers in a fashionable quarter as crowds were leaving the theatres. Five women and seven men were stabbed before the police fired revolvers end so wounded Betz that they overpowered him. Several of tile wounded are in a critical condition. One policeman is dead. A bomb was thrown in a crowded market place in Dinkensbuehl, Bavaria, wounding 50 persons. 20 seriously. Herbert Armstrong, a solicitor, and clerk of the court xt Hay, in Brecknockshire (Wales), has been arrested and charged with attempting to murder Martin, a local solicitor, with arsenic. Armstrong’s wife died seven months ago. It is reported that her body is being exhumed. Mr. Lionel Speakman, general manager of the Furness Railway Company since 1918, has been recommended for the Commissionership of the South Australian railways.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 18, 4 January 1922, Page 5
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