GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 21 March 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

EPIDEMIC OF TYPHUS SWEEPING TOKIO By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. Tokiq has been swept bv a typhus epidemic during the past 70 days. The number of cases reported is 1739,. with 395 deaths. Authorities, after investigations, learned that the refugees living in barracks were tho chief sufferers. (Physicians blame the exceptionally dry winter with frequent whirlwinds and dust-storms and the shortage of sprinklers. Thorough disinfection throughout the citv is being planned.

A further earthquaike shock has been experienced at Yass, New South Wales, but there was no damage.

Owing to the shortage of water supply. the Sydney Water Board has prohibited the use of hoses for all purposes.

There have been further strikes in the Northern New South Wales coalfield, and now 13 pits are idle.

The death is announced by a Perth message of Mr. J. B. Percy, formerly a well-known banker in Australia and New Zealand.

James Laydon has been sentenced to imprisonment for life with hard labour for the murder of A. E. Whitford, whom he shot outside the Tivoli Theatre, Brisbane.

The Aus|trtiliian High Court dismissed Angus Murray’s appeal against tho death sentence for the murder of Mr. Berriman.

Reports from Moscow state that M. Tchitchcrin has been appointed Russian Ambassador to London, Trotsky assuming tlie Foreign Office. Reuter.

A meeting of the. Sydnev Operative Bakers’ Union appointed a committee to initiate steps towards re-registration of the union.

A man approaching too near during the landing of an aeroplane at Rockhampton, Queensland, was struck by the propeller, and his arm was completely severed.

It is reported from Vladivostok that Japan and Russia have reached an agreement with regard to the fisheries dispute, and that other matters where difficulties exist are being gradually straightened out. —Reuter.

Members of the Australian Seamen’s Union have disregarded the union s instructions not to join the Fordsdale, and already over 70 per cent, of the erfw has now. signed on. The owners state that having won their point the vessel will sail from Sydney in a day or two.

According to a Los Angeles message Horace Greer, former chauffeur to Mabel Normand, has been held to answer a charge of attempt to murder, after a preliminary hearing of charges in connection with the shooting of Courtland Dines.

Reports from Turkestan state that there has been a recrudescence of rebel activities, in which Jumaid Khan had a brush with the Soviet troops attacking and looting Khiva. Subsequently the rebels scattered on tho arrival of the Red cavalry.—Reuter.

One British officer and two Indian soldiers were killed and six wounded as the result of the ambush of a picket of the Third Battalion of the 9th Juts, near Chagnialai, states a Reuter message from Delhi. One Lewis gun was also captured. The enemy casualties are unknown.

The Supremo Court at Leipzig sentenced a Swiss kincma manager named Bienz to eleven years’ penal servitude for espionage on behalf of France. Three German accomplices, two of them soldiers and one a wo.man, were sentenced respectively to 13 2), and 2 years’ imprisonment. It is alleged that Bienz acted under the orders of a French captain named Dannont, who is alleged to be the head of the ! present French espionage service, and who will le tried at l.eipzig on March 20. The French authorities in the occupied region are holding two prominent Germans as hostages for Darmont.—Reuter.