GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 98, 25 April 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 24, 11.0 a.m.) Fez, April 23. General Monier, the French commander, lias dismissed the Pashas and is appointing governors to replace them. A court-martial will try the ringleaders of the revolt. General Moinier is disarming the inhabitants and possibly a war contribntiion will he levied for the indemnity of the families of the victims. There was a most horrible scone at the wireless station. The operators barricaded their room and although they had only one revolver they killed fifteen of their assailants. Eventually the Moors climbed on the roof and poured down boiling oil, whereupon one of the wireless operators committed suicide, after killing his three comrades to avoid their falling alive into the natives’ hands. (Received 24, 11,15 a.m.) London, April 23. Lord Alverstone gave judgment for John Roberts on all points in his case against George Gray for breach of contract. ’Tinkler, charged with theft of .hooks from Peterborough Cathedral, has been sentenced to three years’ penal servitude. He had been- previously convicted. The evidence showed that he was a confirmed book, thief with confederates in New York and London. The Zealandia has sailed with 1222 immigrants for New South Wales. She carries twenty-six lifeboats. Mr McKenna introduced the Welsh Disestablishment Bill in the House of Commons. TV- „, ■■ , Reed, caricatnf|st, who was charged .with showing an indecent drawing to children, was fined £lO. He iias appealed. The Government of India Bill was road a second time. Mr Bonar Law intimated that lie would not oppose the Bill into the arena of party politics, Bill int ot-he arena- of party politics, though the use. of the prerogative was -unconstitutional. (Received i-24; : 12.35 p.m.) New York, April 24. The tornado previously reported in Illinois covered a larger area than at first believed. Eighty persons are known to have been killed by collopsiag houses and falling trees. A hundred homes have been levelled in one district, people being crushed to death by the debris.