MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14326, 11 April 1912, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

The .Australian team for tho Olympic Games left Sydney yesterday, en route lor Stockholm, Sweden. Colonel Smerdon, <i well-kuown British scoutmaster, has arrived at .Melbourne to study the Australian compulsory military training system. A battle was fought at Jojutla, Alexico, between tho Federals and rebels. "Five hundred are reported to have been killed. A specialist has assured AVarnor that he can safely play in forthcoming cricket season, says a message from London. Kagan and Lichatkof, two Social Democrats who escaped from Siberia, havo been granted admission into tho United States on the ground of being political refugees. A return shows that out of every thousand persons iv the Commonwealth of .Australia 19.9 are drawing old age or invalid .xmsion-s, tho total cost being £2.200,000 yearly. The Socialist Conference at Adelaide recommended that all working-class boys should refuse to attend parades and decline to drill if committed to military custody. The Federal Government re-submits the referenda proposals, rejected last year, on the same day as the general elections next year, says a message from Melbourne. The English Naval and Alilitary Emigration League is appealing for £10.000 to enable ex-soldiers and sailors to emigrate. The Leaguo is at present selecting three hundred ex-soldiers for NewSouth A\*ales. Edward Kinsman has confessed to the recent New York taxi-cab robbery, implicating others. A portion of the stolen jewellery has been recovered. Kinsman was sentenced to 3. years' imprisonment in Sing Sing prison.

The Forfarshire Afasonic Grand Lodge enquired into the initiation of Jack Johnson, the pugilist, and declared it void. The Lodge responsible has been requested to show cause why it should not b<* suspended by Grand Lodge-