MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16961, 9 October 1920, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

1 _ Lieutenant Austin, an American, has started on a flight to Washington from Panama. The American Red Cross has appropriated 500,000 dollars to reliever the famine ij. China. 9 ' It is announced that the population of the United States is 105,683,103, representing an increase of nearly 15 per cent, over the 1910 census. A message from Noumea states that two native chiefs have been publicly guillotined for organising and participating in the late native rebellion. Captain Wilkins, second. in command of the Oot>o Antarctic Expedition, left Sydney .in the Maheno, en route to Monto Video, whero he will join Dr. Cope. In the Federal House of Representatives, Mr. W. M. Hughes, replying to •Mr F. Tudor, said the Government had not considered the Senate's action in rejecting the entertainment tax, but it would insist on jealously guarding tho rights of the House of Representatives to impose taxation. The delegates to the "World Sunday School Convention at Tokio held a prayer meeting giving thanks for thti'r escape from the fire, which destroyed the hall where the convention was to meet. Tht* convention is meeting in the Y.M.C.A. Hall. Korean and Chinese delegates nro not attending, as a protest against the attitude of the Japanese. The Madras-Bangalore main train was wrecked on Thursday near Arkonam. Several passengers were killed. The disaster was due to tho mysterious removal of a rail. On tlfo previous day an attempt was made to wreck the Madras-Bangalore mail, but only a light engine preceding the was smashed. It is believed a political significance attaches to the outrages.