CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 15 October 1927, Page 17

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Death Sentence. ~. Perth, .October, 14—Tlie Legislative Assembly amended the criminal code to provide that a prisoner found guilty of murder can call s upon the trial Judge to enquire into his mentality .before the defeth sentence is passed. vl . Motor-Cycling Record. London, October 13.—Breaking all land and sea recordsman all British Arielenginkd : motor-cycle and sidecar at Banbury has been running since noon on October sth. Relays of drivers and observers have been employed. To-night the machine had covered 3915 miles and the engine had revolved thirty million times. The iest; is continuing. Swimming in N.B.W. ' Sydney, October 14.—The Amateur Swimming Association has. decided that the coming season will be devoted only to interests of local swimming. No consideration will be given to international Visits. • Sbeli Tragedies. Paris, October 13.—Messages from , Rheims report shell tragedies on the battlefields. A workman salvaging war material was fatally in-jured-by the explosion of German shells; another was killed instantly when his pick struck a shell in a crater,, and a.child's hand was blown off by a hand grenade at St. Quentin. U.S.A."Labour convention: . New York,: October • 13.—The American Federal Labour Convention at Los Angeles endorsed the immediate independence of- the Philippinesv au also approved of the exclusion of Asiatics from United States. Gambling Craze. / Sydney, ■ October 14.—Speaking at a meeting of the Hibernian Benefit' Society, Archbishop Kelly deplored the increasing gambling craze. The Archbishop gave the advice:. "Never make a winning bet," and urged his hearers to remember the old Italian proverb, , "Never win a lottery." He added: "When you start betting you start going down the Blippery path." Trades Union Congress. ' Brisbane, October 14.—The Trades Union Congress, prior to the adjournment, adopted a fighting platform, which included the nationalisation of banking and all the principal industries, the creation of an electivo supreme economic council. by setting up of institutions to train workers in the management of nationalised industries.