GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 9 January 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COWS AND ARSENIC. By Electric Telegraph.—Copy rigid (United Press Association.) (Received 9.3 b a.m.) London, January 8. Twenty-one cows have been presumed with arsenic at Billingsford. 3 welve died, and the condition of six others >s serious. There is no clue to the perpetrator. SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS. Bowles, avlio shot Henry and Cromer, of the London police, has been sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude. Mr Henry appealed for leniency. H.M.S. TORCH. London, January 8. Mr. Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), replying to Mr. Archer Shee, said the dockyard officials were responsible for alloAving the Torch to pro- 1 coed to sea, and they had been censured for lax administration. 1 COLLAPSE OF A WALL. Rome, January 8. A Avail collapsed and destroyed a house occupied by several families. TAvelve persons Avere killed, including Mrs. Claire Buxton, of London. Scveral Avere injured. MURDER BY RUBBER ROBBERS. Delhi, January 8. Robbers at Jo'hore hacked Mr. Oakley, manager of the Sadenak Rubber Estate, with an axe, and Oakley’s injuries proved fatal. MISSING EXPLORERS. (Received 10.5 a.m.) Berlin, January 8. A wireless message from Advent Bay, Spitzbergen, states that Croderstranz, Sandleben, geologists, and tAVo others, members of a section of J he Stroderstranz Expedition, disembarked at Treurenburg Bay on August 15 on a sledging expedition into the interior. Their fate is unknown. RECENT LAND DISCOVERY. Beunos Aires, January 8. The land discovered by Filcbner extends from latitude 67 degrees 35 minutes, longitude 30 degrees to south to 79 degrees and to the Avest to the Grand Barrier. Commander B-ahlel • died in the Antarctic from heart disease. ACTIVITY IN SHIPBUILDING. Five hundred and forty-two merchantmen, Avith a tonnage of 1,970,065, Avere being built in the United Kingdom on December 31, as compared Avith 463 vessels, Avith a tonnage of 1,368,671 throughout the rest of the Avorld. There is a great shortage of skilled labour in' 1 the Northern shipyards Avhich is causing the refusal of some orders. ROBBERS COMMIT MURDER. Pekin, January 8. Robbers near Chengtu attacked a party of Missionaries and killed the infant son of Mr Joliffo, Canadian Mis sionary. The assailants were repelled, and one Avas captured. THE PUTUMAYO ATROCITIES. (Received 10.20 a.m.) London, January 8. Mr Gubkins, chairman of the Peruvian Amazon Company, gaA r e evidence that ho had not heard of the atrocities until he read Avhat had been published in the neAvspapors. Ho did not think the directors, even Arana, kneAv all that was going on. He considered the directors Avere not responsible for the outrages. After the disclosures, it Avas the Peruvian Government’s duty to punish the criminals.