Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6, 8 September 1913, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

danger in the tide. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.! (deceived 9.20 a.m.) London, September 7. Some horsemen rescued thirty children who were overtaken by the tide at New Brighton. There was groat excitement owing to the difficulties on the flipery rocks and the rapid rise of the tide.

“A BRITISH TRIUMPH.” (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, September 7. Lord 1 Cowdray, interviewed by the Standard, states; “The concession ob-tained.in-Ecuador is a British triumph over American and Dutch competitors. The ■ expenditure under it is likely o her ten. millions'in the first fifteen •wears, iiHd that sum will bo spent in Mexico in ten years. Pearsons vvd pay the Ecuador Government the royal ties.” ■

FAILURE OF A NEW PLAY

London, September 6

Sir J. M. Barry’s new comedy entitled “The Adored One,” was staged •at’-thesßeke-of iofK's Theatre. If seemed perfect until half-way through, and iihen. collapsed..through feebleness, groans drowning the applause as the curtain fell.

'WORLD’S F ASTEST DESTRO Y Ell

St .'Petersburg, September 6. ‘The destroyed Nobik, fitted "itn turbines, attained a speed of 3 1 knots during her trials, the fastest m the .world.

A NEW COMET

London, September 6.

A'faint comet of the tenth magnitude has been discovered by Dr. 3flctcalfe, of Winchester, Massachusetts. It is possibly identical with Wcstphal’s.

A JEWELLERY COMBINE

•Washington, • September 0

iThe Attorney-General has filed a suit foi: the dissolution of an alleged jcwolleFy combination, involving several -hundred *firms.

STREET EXHIBITIONS

Paris,' September 6.

The Prefect of Seine has prohibited exhibitions on rostrums near monuments and historic buildings in the chief squares and thoroughfares.

AN ISLE FOR LEP ERS

London, September 6

The Sultan Delhi, Ruler of Mumatra, has presented the Salvation Army with an island near Medan to servo as a leper colony.

ANGLO AND ORIENTAL IDEAS

London, September 6

Aqglo-dndians continue to strongly protest against Maud Alien’s appearance >-111 ’lndia' in I Her - dancing -tuin.

AN ERRANT ATHLETE,

London, September 6

Cloutte, winner of the Wingfield sculls, has been sentenced to six months’ hard labor on a charge of defrauding the Baring Bank of £2-500. Cloutte has been in the bank’s employ as a clerk for 20 years.. He has five young children, and had been tempted to speculate on the Stock Exchange to ■ provide for them and • his -mother and sisters.

150 DROWNED IN A FORD

Delhi, September 6

One hundred and fifty men, women

and children, en route to a Fair, were i carried in a sudden rising while crossing a'.tributary of Bens xtiv6r at. Hoshiarpur (Punjab). All were drowned.

SMUGGLED CHINESE. ( Chicago, September (5. Detectives unravelling a Chinesej murder discovered an alleged underground railway (sic) for smuggling Chinese into British Columbia, the United States, and Mexico, with ramifications extending throughout the Pacific Coast. Hundreds of Orientals are'believed’to have thus gained entrance.

LETTER-SORTER KILLED

London, September G

Thomas Collier, a sorter, dropped a parcel in a biji at Victoria Station, Mnchoster, where it exploded. Many -windows were broken, and Collier was tkilledy several sorters also being injured. Investigation disclosed that the parcel contained explosive corks, used starters fit athletic meetings.

'A MURDER WAVE.

Berlin, September G

A murder wave is passing over Ge.matxy. There have been 11 murders in .Berlin alone in a fortnight. ..ARKANSAS TOWN"SWEPT BY FIRE. A fire at Hot Springs, Arkansas, destroyed 30 business blocks, including most of the public buildings. The fire Started in negroes’ dwellings, find spread with tremendous rapidity.

There were many narrow escapes, the people rushing wildly from theii homes. A thousand are homeless, and tjie damage is estimated at a million sterling. EX-JOCKEY IN TROUBLE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times— Sydney Sun Special Carles. (Received 8.25 a.m.) Washington, September 7. The police arrested Bceicett, the Australian ex-jockey, for stealing Lord Lonsdale’s gold belt from Freddie Welsh, who won it as the champion lightweight in the British .Empire.