Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML. Toggle navigation. Scraps and iacts. Mexican bandits who beat Mrs. Auid, a British subject, on the soles of her feet in order to make her divulge the hiding place of her jewels last Thursday night, while she was a passenger on a train near Siiao, have seemingly cooked up a large measure of trouble for the Madero government. When the incident became known the foreign colony held an indignation meeting and petitioned the British minister to investigate and if the facts are found as reported, to make vigorous protest to the Mexican government.
The minister has made no statement. According to the story of one of the passengers, Mrs. Auid hid her Jewels and refused to give them up. The bandits threw her on the floor, seized her feet and beat a painful tattooo on Jhe soles. The bandits stopped the train by removing a couple of rails and then fired into the coaches, wounding a number of persons, reports say six, one of whom, an American named Kane, afterwards, died.
The bandits, it is stated, demanded a large sum of money from Kane and when he declared his inability to produce it, shot him in the mouth. The cabled announcement from Bremen that North German Lloyd has given orders for the building of a new liner, larger than any now In J the service, is explained at the steam- J ship offices in New York to mean that a liner of 54, tons, 8, tons bigger than the Olympic and Titanic, is to be launched to put Germany again in the first place in the trans-Atlantic service.
Moreover, it is said that the new liner to be named after one of the great leaders in American history, will be the first of a fleet of similar boats designed to take the place of liners of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse type. These latter boats probably will be utilized for a service from New York to San Francisco via the Panama canal. The new ships which will cost about ,, each will be the last work in ocean luxury.
There will not be an ordinary berth in the entire ship, and there will be a bed for everyone from the millionaire who pays a small fortune for a suite on the promenade deck to the humblest steerager.
