MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 15538, 7 July 1914, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

A Papal decree orders all teachers of theology in Roman Catholic universities, colleges, and seminaries to adopt St. Thomas Aquinas’s ‘ Summa Theologise ’ as a text-hook.

five persons were killed and six injured at Spandau (a suburb of Berlin) as the result of touching a high-tension wire. Some of the soldiers who* were so treacherously dealt with at Kalgan feigned death, and after the departure of the executioners crept out of the shallow graves and escaped. A German specialist has reported to the Medical Society that he has successfully X-rayed the liver and spleen for tho detection of functional disorders and growths. The German Army are adopting greycolored trousers both for peace and war time.

The Lord Mayor of London's Empress of Ireland fund lias reached £43,000.

Sir R. L. Borden’s latest scheme to train naval men without ships is said to suggest the early formation of a Canadian navy.

The death is reported of Mr Sydney Grundy, the well-known dramatist, and in recent years the ‘ Daily Mail’s ’ dramatic critic, aged 66 years. German banks intend issuing a £20,000,000 loan to Bulgaria. The money will bear interest at 5 per cent. The first half will be issued at £B4 at the end of this vear.

Turkey has agreed to Greece’s proposal to entrust a neutral Ppweff to choose an arbitrator to settle the differences.

Mr Mallaby Deeley, who recently bought Covent Garden Estate from the Duke of Bedford, has‘transferred it to, Mr Joseph Beecham and Mr Alexander Ormond, a Manchester stockbroker.

At the London Central Criminal Court a verdict of “Not guilty” was returned in the case of Grassland, the author, who was charged with conspiring with Lord A. Douglas in a false accusation against Mr Barr, author, and executor in Oscar Wilde's estate. (London. ‘ Times ’ and Sydney ' Sun -'Services.) Mr J. P. O’Connell, editor of the ‘ Vancouver Sun,’ is claiming £6,000 for wrongful dismissal because he was too hostile in 1 his comments against the Chinese on the occasion of th® .recent murder of a European woman. He also seeks an injunction to. prevent the president of the ‘Sun’ Piiblishing Company from dictating the paper’s policy..