MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 15480, 30 April 1914, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

Professor Laurent attributes numerous cases of cerebro-spinal shock amongst the soldiers who fought in the Balkans to the air vibrations caused by passing projectiles. He adds that this confirms his observations made during the Russo-Japan-ese War. Nissun, who shot at and wounded Sir Lionel Phillips at Johannesburg in December last, has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. (London ' Times' and Sydney ' Sun' Services.) During 1913 the British Board of Agriculture received 241 applications for the use of fancy names for margarine, and approved of 154. German officers have been forbidden to patronise marriage agencies. The penalty is instant dismissal from the army. The House of Lords passed the annual Army Bill. . Government troops are harrying the White Wolves, who have dispersed into the desert regions, thus saving Szechuan. Forty-eight convicts who were in the penitentiary at Ariane (France) escaped. They are terrorising the neighboring villages. Tw«sy-on* of them have bean raarrartii.