MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17170, 13 June 1921, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

A gale completely wrecked tho Zeppelin, which Germany handed over '.o Italy, in accordance with the Peace Treaty. J. M. "Worthington, late Sergeant-at-Arms in tho Victorian Parliament, ■who was arrested' recently, was committed for trial on a charge of corruptly receiving money. Two thousand Salvationists, including representatives from Australia, New Zealand, and thirty other countries, attended the wedding in London of General Booth's son, Bernard, .to Captain Jane Lowtber, formerly of Sydney. At the request of the Federated Seamen's Union, the' Federal Arbitration Court has convoned a compulsory conference of representatives of the shipowners and seamen for June 16th, with a view to reaching finality on the question of seamen's claims. Dr. Murray Butler' of New York,! states that lie has reserved cabled .information that the mbeting he agreed to address in London m connexion with tho Imperial Conference has been cancelled. ~ He expects trait other arrangements will be made kvhen he reaches London. A London message! says the conference secretariat explains that the terms I "Imperial' Conferenci'' and "Imperial I Cabinet" are hot used officially. The conference will determine its own designation. Meanwhile] the officials are' usine the term "Cokference of Prime Ministers." i Karl Garies, chairman of the Independent Socialists in the Bavarian Parliament, was fatally shot with a revolver at midnight while returning to his home. in Munich. The crime is described as political, arising out of his demands for tbo disarmament of tho civip guards. It 13 reported from Leipzig that the Court acquitted Max Rai:dohr, who was charged by the Belgian Government with imprisoning and ill-treating Belgian children at Grammont in 1917. The Court declared that the evidence was not conclusive, and that the witnesses exaggerated and contradicted one another. Karl Jackel, who arrived at Hull three weeks ago, has been arrested. He drifted across tho North Sea from Hamburg in the two-mastea sailer Anne, in which the cargo had shifted, rendering navigation impossible. Jackel asserted that he sailed the Anne single-handed, but the German authorities state that ho sailed with Anderson (owner) and (Semnelback (seaman), both of whom have disappeared.