CONDENSED CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 904, 28 December 1923, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLES.

The Spanish Government announces the discovery of a communist plot with ramifications in the Spanish provinces and Portugal. The plotters received funds from Russia, and met under the guise of sporting associations. Two warders at Wormwood Scrubbs prison have been dismissed and' another placed or probation and transferred following the inquiry into the smuggling out of prison newspaper articles by Horatio Bottomley. There wore only two casualties in the recent earthquake at Oputo, Granados, and liuasabas, in Sonora, Mexico, According to official messages, liuasabas and Granados are in ruins.

At the inquest in England on EngieerCommander Frederick Robertson, a verdict was returned of .suicide while insane. Evidence was given that he had been placed under arrost~aboard his submarine to await court-martial on a disciplinary matter. A Capetown message states that General Mnritz. the rebel commander, was arrested as he crossed the border into the South African Union. The anniversary of Madame Curie’s discovery of radium was celebrated in Pars on Wednesday, Eulogistic addresses were made by President Millerand and various savants, The Curio foundation was also inaugurated for the purpose of advancing the use of radium, especially for the indigent sick, who will there receive free application. Two and a-lialf grammes of radium, and various subsidies by French institutions have been donated for the foundation’s upkeep. The United Press correspondent at Athens learns that Britain has made representations to Greece, in a Note delivered by the Act-ing-Charge d’Affairs regarding the expulsion of King George. The London hospital for tropical diseases claims several complete cures of sleeping sickness by injecting a drug known as Bayer 205, which is produced at the Baver chemical works, near Cologne. It was first successfully used on 189 natives in Central Africa.

At Dunning (Illinois) fourteen patients in the Slate hospital for the insane were burned to death and fourteen others are missing, as the result of a tiro which destroyed the building sheltering the tubercular insane.