CONDENSED CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 175, 25 June 1926, Page 11

CONDENSED CABLES.

Tlio Houso of Lords road a third time the War Graves Endowment Bill and the Colonial Divorce Bill. Owing to a cholera epidemic in Siam, where thero havo been 1700 fatal cases since October, the Federated Malay States railways havo prohibited passengers from crossing tho border from Siam. In the British House of Commons, asked if Mr Churchill’s and the Earl of Birkenhead’s speeches represented the Government’s attitude towards Russia, Mr Baldwin replied: “Put that on paper.” The Federated Malay States Government is providing £2,000,000 as a gift to the Imperial Government in connection w,ith the construction of the Singapore naval base. A Berlin message says that tlio “hunger” artist Jolly has been arrested and charged with swindling the public. It is now alleged that, during his six weeks’ “fast” inside a glass case, ho was nightly supnlicd witli chocolate passed m thin sticks through an aperture for an electric light wire. Jolly denies tho charges, which, he says, his ex-manager has brought in revenge because Jolly refused to take him to America.