LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 19021, 17 August 1925, Page 8

LATE CABLES

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PROMPT JUSTICE. CONSTANTINOELE, August 16. (Received August 17, at 11.15 a.tn.) Seventy-seven members of an alleged secret committee, who were working against tlio Republic, were arraigned at Angora. Eleven were sentenced to death and twenty-two sentenced to imprisonment ranging from five to fifteen years. The remainder wore acquitted. —•A. and N.Z. Cable. AMIENS TRAIN ACCIDENT. LONDON, August 16. (Received August 17, at 11.15 a.m.) Only three Britishers are mentioned in connection with the Amiens tragedy —a t< lasgow man and two Putney girls, who am among the injured.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BRITAIN AND THE PACT. LONDON, August 16. (Received August 17, at 10.15 a.m.) TJio political correspondent of the ‘ Sunday Times ’ commends Mr Austen Chamberlain’s stand against any automatic war commitments. It says: “Even in a flagrant case of aggression by Germany or France, wo must reserve the right to the hour and manner of our intervention.” —A. and N.Z. Cable. ATTH/ETE’S DEATH. MELBOURNE, August 17. (Received August 17, at 1.30 p.ra.) Harry Taunemann, a former champion walker of Victoria, was found shot dead in a siicd at the rear of his hotel in Bendigo with a discharged gun lying across Ids body. MACMILLAN EXPEDITION. WASHINGTON, August 16. (Received August 17, at 10.15 a.m.) The MacMillan Expedition has established a provision depot at the head of Flagler Fjord, Ellesmere Island, midwav' 1 between the bases of Etah and Capo Hubbard, according to a message relayed hero by a Cedar Rapids (Iowa) radio amateur, who said that ho nicked up voices Irom tlio Bodowin on a fiftcon-mclro wave length after lie had successfully completed the voice tost. Tliis is .said io bo the first communication made by an amateur on a similar wave length and distance. Ho took a code message. Two of the expedition’s three seaplanes are now available, No. 2 being on the top deck of tiie Peary after having been damaged by heavy seas, but it is "doubtful whether it will bo used again.—A. and N.Z. Cable.