MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16520, 12 May 1919, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

A German submarine commander, accused of sinking hospital ships, has been lodged in the Tower of London.

The missing American naval airplane descended in the sea off the Massachusetts coast. The airmen wore rescued.

The House of Commons carried the second reading of the Bill extending for another six months tho regulations stabilising wages.

M. ran dnr Velde, in nn interview in Paris, said Holland and Belgium would' shortly negotiate regarding tho Scheldt. A satisfactory solution had already been virtually reached.

In tho House of Commons. Mr Cecil Harmsworth announced that the Government recognised tho independence of Finland and tho present Finnish Government.

It is reported from Sydney that in connexion with Doyle's committal, counsel on behalf of Raphael Tuck and Sons, London, denied tho rumours that the murdered man. Hugo Tuck, was related to Raphael Tuck.

The first Trade Union Congress in Cape Province, sitting at Capetown, carried a resolution by 61 vo.tes to I, that the colour bar in trade unions -was wrong in principle, and unjust in practice No differentiation should be tolerated on account of natonality, colour, creed, or sex.

Lord Birkenhead. Mr Lowtlier, Senator Pearce, and other British and Dominion members of Parliament, inaugurated the Empire Parliamentary Association's new rooms adjoining Westminster Hall. Senator Pearce emphasis the value of the interchange o' visits between British and oversea members of Parliament, the. good results of which had been abundantly shown dujing the war.

Ex-Senator Humbert was acquitted at Paris on a chargo of trafficking with tho enemy in connexion with the purchase of tho newspaper "Le Journal'' in 1915. He acquirod a controlling interest in it with money supplied by Lo Noir, who was arrested on a charge of having obtained funds from Germany. It was alleged that Humbert accepted over £200,000 from 8010 Pasha to pay out Le Noir. The latter was convicted and sentenced to death.

A Paris messase says that drainage of the lake in which Landru is alleged to have disposed of one of his victims lias been found unexpectedly difficult, and pumping is necessary. The police have begun to remove the cellar floors at Landru's villa, where the smell of decomposing flesh has become evi-. dent. An acau:ijntance describes Landru as a model child, but when as a youth he was convicted of fraud his father committed suicide, being broken-hearted at the family's disgrace.