General Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 89, 20 August 1923, Page 5

General Cables

A NOTORIOUS WOMAN. - London p August 17; Richard Baton, Daily Mail correspondent, who has just been released after t\\|o months' imprisonment in Russia, declarer the real head of the Foreign Department is a Russian woman, less than thirty years of age, named Simanova. She is a beautiful blond with innocent grey-blue eyes. Nevertheless she is. oven more violent than her Jewish assistants. She conducts all the important interrogations. She is merciless in her demands for punishmont and is responsible for shooting or the expulsion of foreigners. Within tho last six months twenty thousand Russians and foreigners have beon expelled to Archangel. Her name is notorious throughout Russia. AMERICAN BOOT-LECCERS. Washington, August 17. A woman. Mrs Mabel Willebrandt, assistant Attorney-General in charge of prohibition prosecutions, has brought to justice the biggest bootlegging ring] in the United States after efforts occupying two years. Eighty-four arrests were made in Savannah, breaking up a group which employed fleets operating between the Bahamas and Georgia, and maintained, convoy systems and intelligence services which enabled them to smuggle millions of dollars worth of liquor into the country. So skilfully conducted was tho ring that the Department of Justice repeatedly failed in its investigations, but Mrs Willebrandt continued the work until evidenco was finally secured. AEROPLANE CRASH IN SPAIN. ] Madrid, August 17. An aeroplane crashed through the roof and two storeys of a house, killing two women and a- child. The pilot escaped uninjured. WORLD'S FASTEST HORSE. London, August 19. Mr Irish, tho owner of Payprus, winner of tho Derby, informs the Sunday Express that he had accepted an American challenge to race ! Papyrus against the best American horse for £-1000 and the title of tho fastest horse in tho world. The French horse Epinard, winner of the Stewards' Cup, may also be entered. ■ The American horse will be chosen !by a series of elimination races. A FLYING BOAT. London, August 1?. The Daily .Express states a Hying i boat will be built shortly for the Southampton-Cherbourg sendee. It will be ©quipped with a promenade deck and ll refreshment buffet.