GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 1, 24 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A DROWNING FATALITY

'By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright (United Press Association.) Rome, December 23. Nine children were drowned at Domodossola while skating.

A CINEMATOGRAPH EIRE

Brussels, December 23

A panic occurred in a cinematograph thatre at Barraques owing to a hrm firing. Twenty people were killed and twenty injured, mostly children.

A MURDER PLOT

Rome, December 23

Delferro, a waiter, committed suicide at Bologna. When dying he confessed that the anarchists drew lots to kill King Emanuel. The lot fell to Delferro, and he was given money. His courage failed him, and he spent the money in drink. Fearing vengeance, he committed suicide. PORTUGUESE SOLDIERS INVADE BRTIISH TERRITORY. Bombay, December 28. A number of Portuguese soldiers violated the frontier surrounding two villages in the British territory of Goa in the south-west of India. They shot two men, four women, and a child, and seized twenty-one others. SERIOUS COLLIERY EXPLOSION. (R eceived 9 a.m.) London, December 24. Two hundred miners were entombed in a colliery explosion in Japan. Three have, so far, been rescued. THE PLAGUE IN NOUMEA. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Sydney, December 24. Advices from Noumea state that the plague is now entirely under control. There have been no fresh cases for over a week. The patients in the hospital are recovering. AVIATION.

(Received 9.0. a .m.) Rome, December 23. The aviator Garros has arrived, completing his flight from Tunis.

THE ASSOUAN DAM,

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

Cairo, December 23. The Khedive opened an addition to the Assouan Dam, costing one million and a half sterling. Lord Kitchener read King George’s message. AMERICANS “MAKE GOOD.” Cairo, December 23. The Egyptian-railways are purchasing 100,000 tons of American coal instead of Cardiff.

ALEXANDRIA GOLD ROBBERY

(Received 10.50 a.m.) London, December 23

An examination of the boxes proves they are the same as those in which the Alexandria gold was shipped.

RAILWAYMAN KNOX’S CASE,

London, December 23. The Magistrates have protested against the Dome Office’s unusual tribunal in Knox’s case, whereby a Magistrate of equal standing to themselves investigated the case. They declare that the Home Office Commissioner displayed more of the_ qualities of an advocate than a Magistrate. LORD DAMAN’S EVICTION. Mr. Elliott Johnson, replying to the ‘Westminster Gazette’s’ comments regarding the eviction of Lord Denman, states that the Now South Wales’ public feeling is entirely adverse to the Government’s action. He declares that Mr. Holman was primarily responsible ancTthat he took the initiative while Mr. McGowen (Premier) was in London.