Philadelphia, Aug. 19. young Danish draughtsman named Svendanberg is being held on bail of $50,000 by the United States Commissioner, the Dane is alleged to have confessed to the theft of the plans of one of the smaller" type United States cruisers. It is stated that he led the police to the place where he had hidden them, It is alleged that his confession was the result of a severe examination by the District Attorney.
Later, Svondanborg's arrest followed the receipt by the authorities of a letter signed by a third party asking if reward would be paid for the return of the plans and threatening to sell the plans to an unnamed 7 foreign Power.—Reuter, Mme. Kiepikoff, who waa sentenced to death on July 12 by a court martial at Cronstadt on charge of "complicity and assi in military espionage," has executed.
Mme. Klepikoff was the widow of the commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet, her husband having been shot on a charge of having engaged in "espionage for England."—Reuter.
Res for Gen. Annenkoft Moscow, Aug. 24.
The Central Executive Committee has suspended the execution of. General Annenkoff and his Chief-of-Staf, General Dennissoff, who were sentenced to death on August 42, after a trial Insting nineteen days, on a charge of carrying on an armed struggle against the Soviet in the Far East between 1918; Chamonix, Aug. 25.
It is feared that 15 persons have been killed and 20 seriously injured as a result of the derailment of a train going dong the mountain railway from Chamonix to Mer-de-Glace, when the engine and a carriage with 50 tourists fell 50 fect down a mount Later.
Three others have died, bringing the death-roll to 18. Thirty persons were injured.
The train was filled with passengers. It had only gone 300 yards frots the station when the engine Jand the first coach left the rails and fell down the mountain-side. The Jsecond coach was saved by a tourist applying the emergency brake.
six women—Reuter, The dead include the driver and and 1920.—Reuter.
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