GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 39, 30 September 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

THE FAR-EAST NAVAL STATION

(By Electric Telegraph'.—-Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, September 20. The Indomitable will shortly replace the. Minotaur on;tho Fat; East station. WAR AEROPLANES. Received 30, 9.55 a.m.) Berlin, September 29. Tho army authorities are equipping five aeroplanes with cinematographs for photographing an enemy’s entrenchments. AN INHUMAN PARENT. Paris, September 29. A woman was arrested burying her baby alive in a cemetery. She was suspected of a similar crime in 1910. RUSSIAN NAVAL ESTIMATES (Received 30, 8.5 a.m.) St. Petersburg, September 29. The navy estimates are £17,000,000 sterling, whereof ’£10,000,000 is for shipbuilding, including throe ships for tho Baltic. ACCIDENT AT DOCKYARD. (Received 30, 9.20 a.m.) j London, September 29. Through the bursting of compressed air in a torpedo cylinder at Portsmouth dockyard, one man was killed and nine seriously injured.

THE- FIFESHIRE. London ,September 29. The inquiry at Aden absolved the officers of the Fifeshire, the Court’s opinion being that the wreck was due to ah abnormal sea. (Received 30, 10.30 a.in.) London, September 29, ■ The Court’s finding in the Fifeshire inquiry was that the wreck was due—not to an abnormal sea, but to an abnormal current.. ' SAILORS ’BANQUET. London ,'September 29. At the annual dinner of tho Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union, Mr Deyitt, of the Orient Company, and several other leading shipowners, were present. Mr Havelock Wilson, who presided, said the Union was endeavouring to promote good feeling with employers. He did not. believe shipowners in the past had had the best' of value, out of the men. He suggested a pension scheme for seamen at' fifty years of age, which would encourage a good class to enter tho service. Sir Walter Runciman, managing director of the Moor Lino Company, replying, said the shipping industry had recently fought a well-conducted fight, and recognised that the seamen had a side as well as themselves.

• A GOLD INQUIRY. Capetown**-September* 29- ~ Tho Commission appointed to inquire into the disappearance of gold during treatment in the East Rqnd cyanide plant, has been withdrawn,' the East Rand Company agreeing to hold an inquiry, under the Company, Law similar to that provided by theterras of the Commission.