CABLE MISCELLANY

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12252, 25 September 1925, Page 9

CABLE MISCELLANY

Australian and N.Z. Cabin Association The British Ministry of Health, as a result of the prevalence of rheumatism, is appointing a medical committee to investigate the prevention of rheumatic fever in the young and rheumatoid arthritis in the middle-aged and elderly people. On the pretext of a lack of bread a large mob closed the market and ' mobbed the Persian Parliament. They j demolished the doors, windows, and 1 furniture, some of the members esicaping wounded. f lhe Military Governer and the Modaress tried to pacify the mob without success. The demonstrations continue. The French airman Nogue who is (attempting to fly iiom Le Bourpi;et to Teheran, is held up at Constantinople [by the Turkish authorities, who refuse [to permit him to fly over Samsoun, Sivas, and Adana. . Eleven cases of cholera with one death occurred at Manila in the last 24 hours. It is believed that scores 1 of other cases have not been reported. The Italian aviator, di Pincdo, has arrived in Korea. A strange accident in the air man-

oeuvres at Bristol makes a total of seven deaths in the Royal Air Force in fife weeks. Flying-Officers G. Thorpe and P. Cox were practising landing, when, at a height of 400 ft, tlieir wings touched. Both crashed to the ficid. Thorpe was killed instantly, and Cox died in half an hour. Two armoured trains, jiarticipating in the Estlioniafi army manoeuvres, collided. Five men were killed and ten injured.