CONDENSED CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 5 April 1926, Page 8

CONDENSED CABLES.

Tho Hindu-Moslem riots reported on Saturday from Calcutta arose owing to a lire in a mosque in the centre of the city, which the Mohammedans attributed to incendiarism by Hindus. Shops were looted and several mosques and temples were desecrated. The Labour Party conference in Sydney is resulting in many stormy passages. The whole of Saturday's session was taken up in testing the credentials of certain delegates. Tho Bolrsen Zeitung, a reactionary newspaper, pictures the United States as one of tho most warlike countries on earth. The paper says: “American schoolboys begin training for the army as Boy Scouts, with rifle ranges in the basement of every school house, high school and colllege.” A huge python, rejecting mesmer-ism,-sank its fangs so deeply into the hand of Labero, a German professional circus hypnotist, that one of the snake’s teeth broke and stayed in his flesh. Labero, undaunted, continued to put crocodiles, hens, guineapigs and rabbits to sleep. He easily conquered a boa constrictor, after which a big eagle drove its beak into his wounded hand. Labero persisted until the eagle toppled unconscious, after which Labero fainted from loss of blood when about to mesmerise a lion. Mrs Elliott Lynn, preparatory to making a parachute descent from an aeroplane from an elevation of 1500 feet, for the benefit of a holiday crowd at Hereford, England, climbed from the cockpit to the wing of the aeroplane. Unfortunately engine trouble developed and the machine fell. Mrs Lynn nung on in a perilous position, though the aviator grazed trees in making a forced landing 30 yards from a field where a football match was in progress.