MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18218, 31 October 1924, Page 13

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Sydccv reports arrangements bare been completed K>r ;lic amalgamation of the C: mmonwoalth Steel Products Company with Yickcrs. Ltd.

Hi-. Dhcran cTrcspomlcr.t or '\lhc li>, K -" n-porta thai uic I'mtcd Mates has wantci IVr.Ma that u the men implicated m tlie murder of .Major Imbne, IHC. .\I:H-rl'-HH V!i '.'-i-Ot'-SUI, aTO l!Ot lorthwnh exc-uted ia ac-. raanee witn the sentence of the Court.. relations <'on\eon tlio two UcvrrnmcDts may be curtailed or sUrpcudcd.

.U Svdricy. the Jndian Medi Doran, a Vwkm' on the steamer Treworla*. wa* found guilty, with :t ttrong rcccmmendatinii lor mercy, on a charge of murdering John Jacob, and was sentenced to death.

Ten persons were drowned and thrco saved when xn-o Fleetwood, trawler, Anida. lelay. was wrecked off the coast of Argyllshire.—Reuter.

At tho annual conference of the Women Justices of the Peace in New South Wales, among tho resolutions passed was uic urging tho women o" Victoria and New Zealand to carry on the light to bring their Governments into lino with tho others in Australia in tho appointment of women magistrates and placing on record their regret that there still remained Governments so undemocratic as to exclude women from the Commission of the Peace. Mrs Hadtield is the New Zealand delegate.

According to Dutch newspapers workmen with a new engine hnivo arrived at Philippopolis (Bulgaria - ), and arc repairing the damaged Fokker aeroplane which is making a flight to Java. It is expected that the. flight will be resumed ou Saturday, tho first stage, being Constantinople!— Router.

The Viceroy of India has refused permission to Gandhi, the Nationalist leader to proceed to Kohat, on tho north-west frontier to attempt to settle the Hindu-Moslem dispute, which was tho starting point of tho recent allIndia communial riots.

The Intcr-Stato Labour Conference afc Melbourne rejectee! a proposal for a capital levy to finance motherhood and ohilhood endowment. The conference declared Australia was capable of supporting a larger population, but insisted that accommodation and employment should be provided before emigrants leave overseas.

A Mukden communique claims complete occupation of Lanchow on. October 23th. (ieneral Wu Pei-fu's forces arc retreating. Tho surrender of a large portion ie stated to be imminent.