MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18368, 29 April 1925, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

♦ ! Great preparations aro being made everywhere in South Africa to welcome tho Prince of Wales. Tho Italian aviator do Pinedo, who has undertaken a flight round the world, has left Baghdad for Bushire. George Jeffrey, a garden boy on the Eridgo Estate, has been arrested and chaTgcd with tho murder of Joau Ammett at Crowborough. Thirty-two persons were killed in fights and disturbances resulting from city elections held in the State of Sonora, Mexico, on Sunday.

A resolution urging the Federal Government to put a total stop to the immigration of Japanese and Chinese into Canada was adopt*! by a meeting consisting of one hundred and sixty delegates of various organisations in British Columbia-.

Anotbor race-gang outrage has boon perpetratod at Sheffield, where ten men attacked William Plummer outside his home and fatally stabbed him in tho abdomen. He leaves a widow and four children. Threo arrests havo been mado.

Emily Gertrude Hcnsworth, who was arrested at Muswollbrook, New South Wales, on a charge of murdering her throe-weeks-old child, whose body was found in a train, was: found not guilty on the ground of insanity. Fifty Koreans, found lying with their nocks on the rails waiting for an express train to pass, were romoved and arrested in tho Haclricji district. They comprised' contractors employed on trackT-work, who believed themselves swindled, and sought revenge by wholesale suicide. They were on the verge of starvation.

Two German artists found guilty of forging British bank pound notes were sentenced to twelve and fifteen months' imprisonment respectively. Two accomplices escaped to foreign countries. Thousands of the forged notes are still circulating in Germany. The imitation is so. good that the notes aro often accepted even by the banks.

The trial has begun of tho nine accused concerned in the shooting outrage at Malabar Hill, Bombay, when Abdul Bawla, a wealthy member of the Bombay Corporation, was shot dead and others injured, in a disturbance which centred round a Nautch girl, Mmutaz Begum, who was disfigured with knives. The case is boing heard /by a spceinl jury before the High Court. The first day's hearing was devoted to a restatement of tho case for the prosecution and the evidence of Mumtaz, who described her life firstly as the Maharajah's favourite and later with Bawla.