SECOND EDITION. General Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 84, 14 August 1923, Page 6

SECOND EDITION. General Cables

FRENCH FAMILY TRAGEDY. Paris, August 12. In a hospital Angers Madam l Vaux heard her dying tiwienty-year-.6?d son retract a statement he made, '.over a year ago which branded her the murderess of her husband. The json declared that he was told if he .did not accuse his mother he would be imprisoned as an accomplice. When the confession was finished the mother kissed her son forgiveness. Sergeant-Major Vaux was shot in his home at the beginning of 1922. Relatives suspected his .wife, and both the son and his little sister gave evidence that their mother, after a quarrel, shot" her husband and arranged' the revolver to indicate .Suicide. The. mother was acquitted at the assize, but her character wias ruined for life. The son, at the point of death, confessed that his father committed suiride.

HARDING'S ESTATE. Washington, August 12. - , The late President Harding's will, which was made 'shortly prior to his .departure for Alaska last June, and .which will be tiled for probate at Marion, disposes of an estate estimated to' he valued at seventy-five thousand dollars. The chief beneficiary is Mrs Harding, who already possesses a considerable estate of her 'own. The principal item in the es-- !»£© is. a -share of the proceeds'of the reodfat sale. of the Marion Star, but Mr Harming was also interested in and industrial enterprises, in wluch he held stocks. CALLIPOLI CEMETERIES. London, August 12. • The Constantinople correspondent of the Times reports that Sir James Allen spent two dajis on Gafligpli and visited almost all the cemeteries. He is well satisfied with the work done. Of thirty-two monuments, fourteen are completed so .far as .the local masonry is concerned; and the others are half finished, i£ith the exception of the vast Imperial memorial at Cape Helles, which is expected to be ready by 1 Anzac Day, 1924. It is hoped the big New Zealand plinth at Chunuk I Bair will be completed in eight. Weeks. The designs are generally considered worthy memorials of the great feat of arms.