CABLE NEWS.
(By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copybight.) (Pad Press Association.) Received October 5, 9,50 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 4. Two persons, including a foreigner, after a desperato struggle with a sentry at Fort Amhol'st, adjacent to the powder magazine, at Chatham, escaped, and have not yet been traced.
CALCUTTA. Oct. 4.
Owing> to clontinulcd disturbance in Southern P'ersia and tho necessity for strengthening the escorts at the Consulates, tho Sixth Indian Cavalry will shortly embark and will bo divided between Bandarabhas and Banikerman. The Thirty-ninth Central Indian Horso will alf-o embark and be distributed between Bushirc, Shiraz, and Ispahan. Received October 5, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 4.
Carpenter, a Charing Cross Bank official, has been committed on a charge of obtaining £SOO by means of a false prospectus two days beforo bankruptcy, BERLIN, Oct. 4.
Helen von Donniges, tho heroine nf George Meredith's book "The Tragic Comedians," suicided at Munich by taking chloral hydrate after, the death of her third husband, Baron Schewitch, GIBRALTAR, Oct. 4:
Tho English cricketers have arrived, and Warner has found tho passage tickets which ho thought had been stolen. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 4.
As an outcoma of the religious strife there was two hours' rioting at Rokitno, Poland, between a thousand Catholic? and thoso antagonistic. Many were injur-, cd and several subsequently died. ADELAIDE, Oct. 5.
Tho initial flight of Dr. Mawson's Antarctic aeroplane lasted twenty minutes. Lieutenant Watkin, the aviator, was overcome with petrol fumes, and landed suddenly; in a dazed condition, Ho struck a post, and tho machine was slightly damaged.
NEW YORK, Oct. i
A train on tho Missouri-Kansas-Texas lino was held up near Bartlesville, between Kansas City and Oklahoma, 'by foui ; bandits, who covorcd tho ongineor and fireman, and compcllod tho brakesman to uncouplo tho express cars, and shunt them down the lino. The bandits then looted thoso cars, cpntaining thousands of dollars' worth of jewellery, and then escaped.
CABLE NEWS.
Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9632, 5 October 1911, Page 5
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in