MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 19, 21 January 1913, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The Star of Australia, in tow, has

arrived at Port Said. A cable from Tangiers states that rebels fiercely attacked a French column at Agnari, hut they were re-

pulsed. Three French were killed and eighteen wounded. The plague at Noumea was practically suppressed when the last mail left.

Dcmmikue Hop, driver of the Czar s train, has died at Olsen. Many times ho had been offered bribes to wreck the Roval trains.

Leprosy is increasing startlingly in New Caledonia, and the Loyalty Islands, among both whites and natives. The percentage varies in two or three different districts.

A sexagenarian, a widow, comm tted suicide by jumping from the first platform of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Her foot caught in the lower ironwork, and the body hung suspended for an hour.

Eight coal beds, distributed over 100,000 hectares have been discovered an the shore of Lake Tanganyika (C mtral Africa). Two motor car§ collided and were smashed in a fog at Melton Mowbray. Mrs. Winston Churchill had a miraculous escape,, hut sustained some cuts on the face. *

A meeting at Newcastle.. (England) urged that the Freedom of the Town be granted ,to the Snowdon Range s captain, officers, and crew for their bravery in navigation.

The Hamburg-Ainerican liner Christian X. lias readied Queenstown, broken down, after forty-three days battling with storms in the Atlantic. A London cablegram states that Sn Joseph Thomson has discovered a new non-explosive gas, holding the same relationship to hydrogen as ozone does to oxygen. It is found hidden in metals, especially iron, zinc, copper, and lead. Attempts to make it artificially have failed.

Budapesth, January 19.

Ignaz Nallos was arrested for embezzling £330,000 belonging to the railways, of which' he was director. He confessed to issuing £416,000 worth ot forged shares. Two employees implicated in forgeries have also been arrested.

Berlin, January 19

Princess Isabella, whose divorce from Prllice George has been granted, only stayed three days at Munich. Gw mg to a. slight by the. Bavarian Royalties, she left during the honeymoon and joined her’mother at Vienna. The faniily vainly 'Attempted a reconciliatioii.' The decree states that there was no 'Reflection cifst by either party on tlie other, but'they were divorced owing' tb incompatibility based on fundamental difference of character.