MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18363, 22 April 1925, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

♦- Following the striko of engine-driven and firemen at Walsh Island, 200 men in the pipe foundry have temporarily been put off. Altogether 350 men are idle. Under orders to protect tho lives and property of American citizens, 153 officers and men of the cruiser Denver landed at Cciba, Honduras, where a revolution is reported to be in progress. ■'

Twelve people wcro killed, and seventythree wounded in the course of the bombardment of the Lisbon barracks. The situation is quiet.

At Melilla, in the course of a reconnaissance flight over rebel villages, aSpanish aeroplane was shot down front a great height. The pilot and observer were burned to death.

A gang of Afghan raiders, grossing the Indian frontier, was engaged by a British force, who beat them off after a stern fight. Fourteen raiders wore killed, and eight taken prisoner. Two of the British force were killed.

Twelve thousand Indian artisans engaged at the Lahore and Karachi centres of, the North-Western Railway struck for better conditions. A thousand men were dismissed, and the Karachi workshops closed. New workers are being engaged, and a normal train service is being maintained by loyalists.

The Comb of Cassation, Brussels, quashed the penalty on Baron Coppee, charged with trading with the enemy, and remitted his caso for rehearing at Ghent. The case has been dragging on since the Armistice.

Canada expects another visit from the President of the United States. Mr Coolidgc has promised to coino to Canada to unveil the peace monument erected by the Canadians ia Stanley Park, Vancouver, the site of the last notable speech ever made by President Warding, a fow days before his -death.

Lord Byug, Governor-General of Canada, proposes an exploration tour of most of northern Canada in August. He hopes to go to the mouth of the Mackenzie Biver, thence through the Arctic, around Point Barrow, through the Behring Straits and home.

While Mrs Austin was inside a shop at East Ham, a woman kidnapped from a perambulator her six-weeks'-old son, while his sister, aged three, was looking on. The father is an engineer in the Tongariro, now en route to New Zealand.

The Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" tells a gruesome story of a widower requesting permission to exhume the body of his wife, who had been dead 10 years. The ground round the grave had fallen into neglect, the widower said, and he wished to place the body in more beautiful surroundings, more worthy of their many years of happy married hfc. The authorities granted the demand, but the widower's satisfaction was so excessive that the magistrate ordered him to be watched. The police found that the widower, who was a rich Hungarian, had given his wife expensive jewels, which were buried with her at the wife's request. The price of the iewels had greatly advanced since her death and the widower hoped to recover the jewels to pay his debts. The authorities have withdrawn the permit and are prosecuting the widower.