GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 30, 30 January 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

CALAMITIES GENERAL. ''Received 30, 9.5 a.m. London, January 29. Twenty degrees of frost were recorded in many parts of England. The floods are abating. Earthquake shocks were felt at Loch Lomond.' Several lifebuoys and belts belonging to the missing Wilson liner Genoa have been found near Berwick. Two policemen and a fireman were, removed to the hospital, being injured in heroically rescuing three children from a fire _ find 1 dense smoko in a house in Mile End Road. Neighbours rescued two others. BIG . DEFALCATIONS. Loudon, January 29. , Following’ the issue of the warrant and subsequent arrest at San Francisco of .MacPherson,, accountant for the Singer Sewing Machine Company, on .a charge of embezzlement, the company lias now -issued a warrant for the arrest of F. D. Brown, Australia general manager of the company, on. a charge of conspiring with MacPherson to defraud the company and embezzlement. Brown is absent in India. It is stated the total irregularities amount to nearly £23,000. /A CHILD ABANDONED. " vi)i ■' ‘ . . . . Paris, January .29. A motor car left a baby on the roadside at Alzonne in the Department of Aube, along with £640 in bank notes. There is no clue to the depositor. FRENCH POWDER INSPECTION. Paris, January 29. The Admiralty inqtiiry reveals that all powder including the 1911 stock is open to suspicion, since it has been mixed with old stock. M. Delcasse has ordered a daily inspection of every battleship. -- WIRELESS STATION OPENED. Madrid, January 29. King Alfonso opened a IVfqrcnni wireless station and exchanged messages with Mr Borden, the Canadian Postmaster-General. ( A PRISONER ESCAPES. (Received 30, 11.20 a.m.) Paris, -January 29. Devos, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for robbery, escaped by a wire ladder lowered from a gallery of the Palace of Justice overlooking the exercise ground. HENNIKER HEATON HONOURED (Received 30, 11.20 a.m.) * London, January 30. A baronetcy has been conferred on Mr Henniker Heaton.