CABLE MISCELLANY

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12194, 20 July 1925, Page 7

CABLE MISCELLANY

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ; Charles Maurras, editor of the “Action Francaise,” has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, in default of payment of a fine of 1000 francs, on a charge of publishing an open letter declaring that if the Minister of the Interior,, M. Schameck, attempted. to disarm the members'’ 6f the League of Action Francaise without disarming the Communists, he would “kill him like a dog.” Arthur Bishop, charged with the murder of Edward Rix, who was found dead in a bedroom in a Mayfair mansion. was found guilty and sentenced to death. Accused, who Is 18 .yean of age, gave evidence that he had had three days of dissipation and drinking. He had only a faint recollection of what bad happened. He hit Rix twioe. He went to Rix’s room to rob, not to murder bim. Notices have been posted in the wool factories of Yorkshire, announcing the 5 per cent, reduction in wages, which the operatives rejected. The Hwedish ship Greta, with a cargo of wool and celluloid, was burijed out at the Londoii docks. Flames leaped mast high and destroyed a jetty and warehouses, despite the efforts of twenty fire engines. The crew including the stewardess, and captain’s wife, bewildered by the dense smoke, leapt overboard, but were rescued by boats. Several days’ torrential rains caused the collapse of seven hirases in Pohingfong. Mr Chausiuki, an exmember of the Peking Legislative Council, was killed, and it is feared that his mother and two sons and their wives are among the dead. Seven bodies have been dug out of the debris. The total number living in the collapsed houses is believed to be 200. The Billiards Association of England has decided that the amateur championship shall henoeforth be played with composition instead of ivory balls. Russell Scott, a former millionaire financier, has been hanged in New York, after a remarkable criminal career. Owing to affairs with wotaen he went through his fortune, and became successively a salesman, an actor, and a boot-legger. In April last he killed a man in an altercation over a bottle of whisky. He adnntte- 1 having been a highwayman and having participated in thirty-five robberies. (Received July 19, 5.5 p.m.) Senator Russell, formerly an Assistant and Honorary Minister in the Federal Cabinet, is dead. Viscount Burnham, interviewed in Ottawa, said he was of the opinion that the questions of coal and electric power always had been a weak link in the chain of British industry. The problem would he solved if Britain had natural resources of hydraulic power as large as Canada’s. Romney’s portrait, “The Master’s Bottle,” was sold at Christie’s for 8500 guineas. Notice of a general reduction of wages by 10 per cent., to take effect on July 27th, has been posted in the mills oif four large New England companies. Between 20,000 and 40,000 operatives are affected.