CABLE MISCELLANY

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12249, 22 September 1925, Page 8

CABLE MISCELLANY

Australian and N.Z Cable Association Chinese soldiers assaulted and severely _ injured an Italian railway official at West Houan. The Italian Minister officially protested, and asked for the punishment of the soldiers. reserving the right to ask for an indemnity. sn. flhe fifth lap of tho Spanish Grand Pi ix a motorist named Torchy crashed into a tree and was killed. The damage done by the fire in the Flood Company’s store on Circular Quay, Sydney, is estimated at £BO,000. In the shed were 15,000 bales of wool valued at £55,000, as well as band iron, tallow, and other materials. Wool presses valued at £6OOO were also destroyed. Lord Illingworth, a former president of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce and one of the wool magnates of Yorkshire, is suing for a divorce from his wife. Mr William A 7. Hodges, treasurer ot the Republican National Committee, declined the post of U.S. Ambassador in Japan, because it would interfere with his children’s education. Captain Amundsen will ho the guest of the Norwegian colony in London at a dinner at the Cecil on September 26th. The Paris police raided printing works and seized numerous Communist pamphlets. As the outcome of Lieutenant Rodger’s seaplane experiences on the Hawaii trip, when tho radio failed, all U.S. army ’planes in future are to carry homing pigeons.