General Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 99, 31 August 1923, Page 2

General Cables

LOST AT SEA» STEAMER AND CREW OF 60. Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Shanghai, August 29. Hope has been abandoned for the British steamer Mylie, of 2180 tons, which was last seen on A.igust 16 battling against a typhoon. It is believed the vessel and crew of sixty perished. BATTLE CRUISER'S END.

Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, August 30. It is officially announced that tho battle cruiser Austral'a will bo broken up at Garden Island as soon as tho fittings are removed. DEATH OF JUDGE COOPER. Brisbane, August 30. The death is announced of Sir Pope Cooper, formerly Chief Justice of Queensland. MOTOR CAR FATALITY. Sydney, August 30. A motor car conveying Pa liamentary officials and newspaper men home from a lato sitting of Parliament in tho early hours of the morning collided with a motor lorry. John Stewart Ramsay, a Hansard reporter, was killed and W. S. Mowle, clerk of Parliament, and two others were injured, but not seriously. WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT. Loudou, August 29. Harding, a British citizen, who was unjustly imprisoned in Russia, hag received compensation from the Soviet Government.

Washington, August 29. The War Department announced that during the nine years the Panama Canal has been in service 20.474 commercial vessels, of a tonnage exceeding eighty-four million, passed through the canal, paying tolls exceeding 76 million dollars. The canal has recently become quite profitable. The tolls last July total'ed in excess of two million dollars. The canal is- showing a profit of five hundred thousand dollars a month, the cost of operation being six hundred thousand dollars monthly. New Yo'k, August 29 German marks are quoted at ten million to the dollar, a new record. London, August 30. Princess Christopher of Greece (formerly Mrs W. B. Leeds, an American) died at her London residence. The Westminster Gazette states that Miss Gheesman, curator of insects at the Zoological Gardens, will accompany the Scientific Expeditionary Research Association's expedition to the South Pacific, which isi starting on October 10, as general entomolosist. She is confident that she will discover entirely new species on Easter, Galapago, Austral, Cook and Cocoo Islands, which from an entomological point of view are unexplored lands. I Geneva, August 291 The bodies of Sir Henry Hayden and two guides were found below a precipice on the Pinsteraarhorn.