GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 96, 18 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

(Received 8.0 a.m.) London, December 17

The police raided a mansion near Belgrave Square, and arrested twenty persons of good social position. It is stated that a prominent lady lost £28,000 at baccarat.

Berlin, December 17

Wolferling, of the headquarters’ staff at Thorn, has been arrested for supplying important information to Russia.

(Received 10.15 a.m

Wolferling was sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment, and fined £750 for high treason, and the £3750 which he received from Russia was confiscated.

(Received 8.0 a.m.) Capetown, December 17. Owing to the grounding cf the Tasmania, the steamer will be docked at Durban for repairs, which will take a month.

Rome, December 17

Twenty-five were killed and one hundred injured in the railway smash al Catania. A number were pinned under the wreckage for four hours, and bogged to be killed. The dead were terribly mutilated. The switchman has absconded. London, December 17. Mr. Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, states that the approximate cost of the Titanic enquiry will lie £20,030. London, December 17. The late Mr. Whitelaw Reid’s family have accepted the offer of a warship to convey the remains to Washington. The Aberdeen Line has ordered from ILirland and Wolffs an improved steamer, Demosthenes, 12,500 ions, with triple screws, to be driven by combination reciprocating engines and low pressure turbine.