GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

ALLEGED ESPIONAGE. (Received noon.) London, February 28. Wilhelm Claire has been remanded on a charge of attempting to secure a. secret naval code at Plymouth. Ho had been under observation for a year, and had had active correspondence with Brussels and Berlin. U.S. SECRETARY TO THE . EMBASSY. Washington, February 27. The Senate will concede to .the appointment of Mr Irwin Loughlin as Secretary to the Embassy in London, thus avoiding leaving th'e United States practically unrepresented at the Court of St. James. CASES OF SIBERIAN PLAGUE. St. Petersburg, February 27. Nine cases of Siberian plague are reported in a tailor’s workshop. The disease was contracted from furs. LOOTING TRIBESMEN. Teheran, February 27. Green, a railway surveyor, was robbed at Bundar, Abbas Road, where tribesmen also looted 500 camels. , FRANCE’S WAR CHEST. (Received 12.15 p.m.) Paris, February 27. The Government has introduced in the Chamber of Deputies a Bid providing for twenty millions sterling. BELGIUM’S ARMY. Brussels, February 27. The Army Bill doubles the strengili of the army in 1928, increasing Rs strength to 360,000.