MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 19

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The Princo of Wales left Lagos aboard H.M.S. Repulse. Large crowds gave him an enthusiastic aend-off.

The lUnanoo Committee of the Sydney City Council has decided that the rates for 1925 shall be tho same as last year, namely 4}d in the £. The Admiralty is experimenting with a new bombing flying boat with a view, it is understood, of including a strong air fleet in the Singapore baso force. The death sentence passed at Adelaide on Thomas William Ashby for the murder of Robert Trevorden, whom he alleged had had improper relations with his wife, has been commuted to imprisonmont for life.

Advices from Leipzig say that the three ringleaders of the so-called German cheka, including the Russian I general, Skolowski, woro sentonced to death, The others implicated received sentences varying from 15 years to Bix months' imprisonment. Howard Vernon, giving evidence-in the oaso in which he xs charged with tho murder of a lad named Bent, at LilydalOj Victoria, said he fired at Bent, whom ho admitted killing, but stated ho did not intend.to kill him. His object was merely to frighten tatt,and he thought ho fired oror hia head.

A wireless message at Port Darwin from H.M.6. Goranium states that both Constables Bridgeman and Macnamara are fet Caledori Bay. Thoy are both well, and have not had any trouble with the blades. [lt was previously' reported that Constable Bridgeman had been mtirdored by a black tracker who was assisting him in the search for the missing women from the Douglas Mdwson.] ,

A mass meetiiig of strikers at Walsh Island, hold at the Newcastle Trades Sail, decided to declare the Walsh Island works "black," and asked all unionists employca* there. to cease work. If the decision is carried into effect, over a thousand employees will be readered idle.

A*oth<J? plug of gelignite was found on the roof of a shop two doors from Duncan's premises in Richmond, Melbourne. The detectives are now e«K ,tain that there .was a fire before the explbsion. Tho enief of police, Mr Nicholson, referring to*the outrage, said Victoria was becoming known as the •criminal State of Australia. He added' that unless the laws were tightened up something very serious would happen.

The election speeches of Dr. Marx and Marshal Ton Hindenburg will be wireiessly broadcast on April 24tb. The application of the Communist candidate, Herr Thaelmaan, for a similar privilege was refused by tho Minister of the Interior on the ground that the Communist Party is unable to comply with tho condition that the parties supporting, candidates are not to strive to alter the Constitution.

Tho arrival of a distinguished party, at Bruges from England, including Sir Boger and Lady Keyes, the Earl and Countess Cavan, Sir Fabian and Lady Ware and Lord Burnham, marks the beginning of several days' AngloBelgian demonstrations, the central item of which is the unveiling by King Albert of the imposing memorial, at Zoebmgge on the anniversary of the attack on the mole..

King Alfonso of Spain, in an interview, defended General de Bivera's Dictatorship. He admitted thero most be a limit to the present anomalous position, bnt ho felt the country was not ripe for constitutional government. He added: —The problem of tUo day is whether Parliamentary institutions can defend the existing order against the Soviet spirit. Italy was the first country to realise that it eould not. Spain had arrived at the samo conclusion. Who knows whether other nations will not eventually shelve their Constitutions for a time?