CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20025, 5 September 1930, Page 5

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

PREVENTION OF INTIMIDATION. (Received September 4th, 9.25 p.m.) ADELAIDE, September 4. The Government has introduced a Bill to prevent intimidation and victimisation on the Port Adelaide waterfront, where there has recently been much disorder. SENTENCED TO DEATH. (Received September 4th, 9.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 4. Charles Laurence, aged 36, was convicted of the murder of Arthur Wornes at Berry on May 27th, and was sentenced to death. Evidence was given to the effect that Laurence gave Wornes a drink of rum in which there was arsenic and that Laurence had visited Worne's house when only the latter's wife was at home. DIAMOND TO BE RETURNED. LONDON, September 4. The "Daily Express" states that the Aix-la-Chapelle police have taken the American gangster Diamond to Bremen, where he will catch the first liner for New York. LENA TRIBUNAL'S DECISION. LONDON, September 3. Tho Soviet Embassy states the Soviet Government will not recognise the validity of the Lena goldficlds concession tribunal. Accordingly any award will not bo enforceable. SMALLPOX CASES. ' SYDNEY, September 4. The Quarantine Department has announced that the liner Nieuw Zeeland which had. a smallpox case on board, would land , her passengers and crew into quarantine upon arrival. Those on the Changte would be similarly dealt with. BODY FOUND IN SACK. PARIS, September 3. | The dissected body of a young woman, tied up in sacking, was found in the Seine at Clichy. The arms were cutoff close to the shoulders, while the legs and ankles and the head were severed cleanly. The police presume that the woman was murdered in Paris and that the body drifted downstream. A preliminary examination reveals that the feet are curiously small, driving the police to the conclusion that she was a Chinese woman. SPEEDWAY "ASHES." LONDON, September 3. England won the Speedway "Ashes" defeating Australia in the fourth Test at Manchester by 51 points to 45 in the presence of 40,000. Vic Huxley, the Australian captain, was the most successful rider, and won each of the four races. The time of the opening heat was 82 4-ssec, the best time of the match. Jack Chapman won three heats, but was beaten by Varey, the English skipper in the fifth scores, after Australia had led 13-11. J h ohn t SOU p" c d Arthur, ; BUS Sicfc'WU» aUo par! ticipated. ■