GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

MANCHESTER CANAL MURDER. .Uy liLKoTttio Telitghaph COPYRIGHT, [United Prebh Association.} London, February 7. Sumner, convicted of the murder oi Miss Bradford, is unlikely to appeal for mercy. He appears indifferent to his fate, and was heard singing in his cell after the verdict. WONDERFUL RADIUM. London, Februarys 6. The Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, used radium on a patient's face. When the dressings were removed the radium was missing. An expert with an electroscope detected it in a dustcart. The professor emptied the cart bucket by bucket- and removed the radium. JAPANESE NAVAL SCANDAL. Tokio, February 7. A mass meeting of 15,000 denounced the naval scandals, and demanded the Government's resignation \ The authorities are inspecting accounts at the Bank wherewith Siemens and Schuckert or their employees transacted business. It is stated one bank produced 160 cheques paid in six years, representing payments to naval' officers totalling £BOOO. "FULL UF" OF THE ARMY. Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. London, February 7. Whilst the advertising campaign is bringing inquiries from tens of thousands of youths disposed to enlist in

(the army, the practice of windowbreaking among soldiers at Aldershot has become a scandal Offenders explain that they are "full up" of the army, and will willingly undergo two months' hard labor in the hope of securing their discharge as bad character's. <« DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Berlin, February 6. A milkman in Upper Hesse murdered his wife and cut the throats of four children and then committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train. |He left a statement that his acts were [the outcome of an unliappy marriage, and he wanted to remove the family from the world. ) ATTACKED BY PIRATES. Bombay, February 7. Two vessels from India anchored close to the shore at Burah, Persian Gidf, and were attacked by pirates. The crews became panic-stricken and escaped in the boats, leaving the skippers to fight alone Armed with rifles, they gallantly de- | fended their ships until one Avas shot i dead and the other badly wounded. j The pirates looted th* vessel* and ", disappeared in the desert.