MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17937, 4 December 1923, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Tho red-water outbreak at Tweed (New Suuth Wales) is regarded seriously. jbive animals havo uied, and seven others are aifected.

The Italian Chamber of Deputies has passed decrees bringing into force the preliminary ltalo-lvussian and ltalo(ikrainiau agreements which were signed in 192 i.

A number of Melbourne unionists marched to the Yarra Bank and adopted a resolution £>f protest against the dismissals of the poiice, and urged the Government to reinstate the strikers.

Mount Vesuvius is again in eruption. A severe earthquake occurred in the Ceprnno district, causing panic among the inhabitants. Many rivers in Tuscany overflowed their banks, inundating a number af (villages.

A mass meeting of bakers in Sydney passed a resolution that they inform the employers that«they refuse to' commence work before six in the mornings, notwithstanding any award made by the Arbitration Court. The reswution further warns employers that the responsibility will be theirs in the event of industrial conflict, following an application to tho Court for a variation of the award.

Because Signor Nitti, ox-Prime Minister of Italy, contributed an article to the American Press which was considered anti-Italian, Fascists raided his Signor Nitti escaped, but his house was ransaq^ced.

The will of James Smith, former director of the Imperial Tobacco Company, was proved at £966,452. Probate duties amount to. £271,838. The late Mr Smith is the seventh director to die in recent years, and the combined estates have been proved at £18,112,951. 4

Dr, James Macdougall, whose workshops at Pittsburg are famous for manufacturing the largest astronomical lenses in the world, committed suicide by poison as a result of worry over the delayed completion of a 36-inch lens.

Major H. C. Finnis, a British political officer, while motoring near Mankkhwa, in Baluchistan/ was /jred at and killed by a gang of Waziria. The driver and a member of the escort were wounded fatally.

Over 100 bodies of German (soldiers have been found in a tunnel dug during the Battle of Verdun. The tunnel, which contains a complete plant for manufacturing mineral water, such as is supplied to the German troopd, extends from Morto Homme Hill to Bethencourt village. The theory is that the Germans were surprised and suffccated in a gas attack'.