MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17017, 14 December 1920, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The jury disagreed in the caso of tho Pierce brothers, charged with the murder of David Davidson at St. Kilda. Melbourne, on November 2nd. ! A goods train leaving Armentieros ran into ta passenger train, resulting in ten persons being killed and twenty injured. Tho damage done to the railway, plant , ' was considerable. j The Rhodes Trust, in its annual re- ' port, states that owing to tiin. increased I cost, of living, the scholarsnip, worth I £300. is no longer sufficient to maintain the hoWer, who must bo prepared to contribute £50 annually. —Q A New York physician, after making a moro thorough examination of Caruso's throat, has declared that tho injury is not so dangerous as at'first supposed, and that the singer may bo exnected to recover shortly. A prominent member of the Bouse of i Commons iias arranged a dinner at tho House of Commons on December 20, fit which a number of Labour members will meet the Prince of Wales. The Prince Is likely to make an important speech . on the general industrial and social out- ( .look. j Tho Marconi Company conducted in- ; teresting wireless telephoning eSperi- , : ments between London and Geneva, i Notwithstanding interference By high- ' powered stations, the messages-of Lord , Burnham and Professor Graham Bell to , the international journalists were easily ; heard. | The bomb, which was thrown in the ! Roumanian Senate, killing, the Minister of Public Works, also seriously wounded the Minister of Justice who is not expected to live. The president of the Senato was slightly wounded. One bishop was. killed, and otners wounuc** tluee other persons \ were __ mortally wounded. The outrage was tlie'work of an individual anarchist. It is reported in diplomatic circles in America that Chilo and Japan are verging on an incident of considerable gravity, following a formal protest from Japan because she was not invited to attend the celebration of tlie discovery of the Strait of Magellan. Tho protest stated that, becauso of Japan's importcinee in the Pacific, she felt keenly the slight, especially as two other naval Powers, Great Britain and the United States, had been .invited to commemorate the discovery of the strait'. The Indian Government has declared that the volunteer bands, organised in connexion with tho campaicm on quasi-military lines, are unlawful, because they mterferod with the holding of publ'c meetings, with the attendance of stuHents at schools and colleges, with the freedoyi of voters, and were also employed in attempts to secure tho Rocial bovcott of those who I declined to accept thp promoters' political views. Innocent peo'nle who joined, under the impression that the bands wece organised for legitimate , srHfrl service, aro warned to dissociate themselves from them The Gorman Government's reply to tho Allied Note, regarding disarmament' of the self-defence forces, claims thnt the complete'surrender of arms does not apply to Bavaria or East Prussia, The former is still completolv under tho influence of the Soviet regime, and the self-defence forces cannot bq disarmed so long as the country is confronted I with the possibility of defeneelessncss ! ajrainst revolutionnries equipped with ' modern weapons. East Prussia is suffpring from warlike acts on her frontiers, and tho />ntrv of portions of tho ■Russian and Polish armies. Sho must therefore supplement her inadequate State forces.