MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18371, 2 May 1925, Page 13

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

—- The Italian police have unearthed a Communist insurrection plot, embracing till© whole of ii.uroj>GTen Communist meetings in New York were broken up l)y police, who drove members into the street and confiscated May Day literature.

• The death sentence passed on Catherine Thorpe, at Leeds, for the murder of ber lover, a married man, has been commuted to imprisonment tor life.

There was a brilliant scene at. St. Margaret's, Westminster, at the wedding of Roger Wethered, tho golfer, and the elder daughter of Lord Charles Cavendish-Bentinck

At Sydney the hearing of. the charge against Jacob Johannsen, acting-secfe-tarv of the Seamen's Union ot counselliny certain people to, strike, was adjourned till Tuesday next.

A message from Halifax says the Bed Star liner Zeeland reports that she received an S.O.S. from a ship in latitude 44.deg, lpngitudc Mdeg, but when she reached the spot she was unable to raise any message from the distressed ship.

Mr Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia, announces that a reduction has been effected in-the rates at present charged by the Pacific Cable Board for Press cables. The present rate of 7Jd a word is to be reduced to 6d a word.

It was announced at tlic League of Nations Union meeting in London that Colonel David Davics, a, member of the House of Commons, has promised £6500, spread over six and a half to be devoted mainly to the work of the in the Dominions.