VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17599, 2 March 1921, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

Pres* Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT. EX-GERMAN MERCHANTMAN SINES. LONDON, February 28. Another ha/, been added to the list of | mysterious accidents which have befallen ex-Gorman ships handed over lo the Allies. A 6,C00-tonner, renamed the Huntspill, duo to sail on Tuesday from Southampton with troops for the Far East, inexplicably listed and &ank in the mud, and is at present half-submerged.—Router. AMERICAN PROFITEERS. FEDERAL LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL. | WASHINGTON, February 28. ! The Supremo Court has declared uncon- j stitutional certain provisions of the Lever Law, bv which profiteering is punishable. The Federal Government will be compelled to make restitution of 100,000 fines collected from merchants who have been convicted of charging high prices for various commodities, principally food and clothes. A. and N.Z. Cab!©. I ~ I ARCHDEACON WAKEFORD. LONDON, February 28. The Privy Council has granted Archdeacon Wakeford leave to appeal against the findings of the Consistory Court.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ['Pbe Consistory Court at Lincoln found Archdeacon Wakeford, percenter of Lincoln Cathedral, guilty of two charges of adultery. The Bishop of Lincoln deprived him of his benefices, leaving him free to act in another diocese.] NEW PUNISHMENT FOR LEGISLATORS. WARSAW, March 1. Michael Marck, a peasant deputy to the Polish Diet, returned to his constituency at Lcpowa (Galicia) to give an account of his stewardship. He gave satisfaction until he mentioned, that had voted for tho establishment of the Upper House, and a self-appointed committee awarded him twenty-five strokes of the birch, which were administered, with a warning that a further stroke would bo administered lacer for every’ of the Tipper House appointed.—A. and N.Z. Cable. TRIAL OF GERMAN OFFICERS. LONDON, February 28. Tho Attorney-General, Sir Gordon Dewart, in the House of Commons, in reply to a question, said be had had an interview with tho German representatives respecting the trial of tho seven Gorman officers at Leipzig. He hoped that the trial would begin a month hence. It was proposed to have a British representative present.—A. and N.Z. Cable. FRENCH STRIKERS ON TRIAL. PARIS, February 28. 'Hie trial has begun on a charge of treason of ten of the ringleaders in the general strike of May, 1920. The prosecution aims at proving that the definite avowed purpose of the strike was the overthrow of the existing social order. Most of tire accused profess Bolshevik views.— A. and N.Z. Cable. AMERICAN TRAIN COLLISION. NEW YORK, February 28. Details of the train wreck show that a Canadian train, travelling at fifty mite an hour, was derailed while crossing the New York Central track. A’ Central_ train, travelling at a speed of sixty miles an hour, plunged into the derailed coaches, several of which were telescoped.—Reuter. CTYIL AVIATION. FRENCH COMPETITION. LONDON, February 28. The Hand Icy-Page Company is discontinuing its aerial service to Paris in face of the French competition.—‘Times.’ The Handlcy-Page' Company, in abandoning its London-Paris air service, states that it cannot compete with the French firms at tho new cut rates, which are the outcome of the French Government’s subsidies.—A. and N.Z. Cable. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT LEAVES INDIA. DELHI, February 28. After a series of imposing social farewell functions at Bombay, tho Duke of Connaught departed for England on board the steamer Malaga. Big crowds along the route accorded the departing guest an enthusiastic send off. —Reuter. THE UNITED STATES CABINET. WASHINGTON, February 28. At Lexington Mr Harding announced that cx-Scnator John W. Weeks Keen has been appointed Minister of War.—A. and N.Z. Cable.