GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 January 1914, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

MARCONICRAMS,

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London, January 9

A license has been granted to enable the Marconi Company’s Poldhu station to connect a wireless commercial service with Spain. POLICE INSPECTOR ON TRIAL. London, January 9. Inspector Potter, charged with, after arresting Robert Atkinson, a suffragist, striking him on tho eye, saying: “We will serve you as Carpentier served Wells,” was committed for trial, despite an emphatic denial of the assault.

LAND TROUBLE IN ITALY.

[United Press Association.]

Rome, January 10. Peasants at Paliana successfully asserted their right to cultivate parts, of a larger estate, but two of the landowners named Tucia, refused to yield. They were arrested after shooting from a window at a crowd of demonstrators. FOODSTUFFS FOR AMERICA. Washington, January 10. There has been a marked increase in the importation of foodstuffs, especially of fresh hcef and cattle, largely from England. Australia sent 580,000 pounds through. Pacific ports in November. According to the Department of Commerce, a large expansion of Australian supplies is likely. NEW PEER'S TITLE. London, January 10. Lord Bryce’s title is to be that of Viscount Bryce of Dichmount.

COLD-STORED PRODUCE.

London, January 10.

Sir William Watson, in a letter to the newspaper Grocer, suggests that all cold-stored butter and frozen meat should be labelled as such, and sold in the same way as margarine.

THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

London, January 10

General Baden-Powell is appealing for a quarter of a million for the boy scout movement. The Mercers Company, of which he is a Master, contributes £I2OO.

DEATH OF A CRIMINAL.

Paris', January 11

Mrs Gould, who was concerned in the Loving trunk murder at Monte Carlo in 1907, died at the Montpellier prison. Her husband died in 1909. GERMAN TRAGEDIES. Berlin, January 9. A builder named Bratz, together with his wife and sister, suicided at Soldan by gas poisoning. The bodies of live children and a dog were found with their throats cut. The motive is alleged to be money troubles. Bratz’s wife had donned mourning.

A policeman out the throats of his three little daughters, ami then hanged himself, owing to a family quarrel.

EXPLOSION AT A MINE.

New York, January 11

An explosion, due to coaklust, entombed 12 men in the Davis Creek Company’s mine, Alabama. Thirty others who were working near the entry escaped. Twelve bodies have been recovered. ACCIDENT TO MOTOR BUS. (Received 9.30 a.ni.) London, January 11. A motor omnibus conveying spectators to a football cup tie overturned at Ladbroke Grove. Twenty-one 'persons were taken to the hospital, but the conditions of- most is not serious.

A DISASTROUS FLOOD.

(Received 9.30 a.m.) Brussels, January 11

The Sonne overflowed its banks, and Hoods in‘the Meuse Valley caused great damage. It stopped work in many factories and quarries.