MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18409, 16 June 1925, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Vico-Adruiral Sir Hubert Brand. wb» commanded the squadron tfcet visited Lyttalton last year, has been appointed Second Sea Lord at the Admiralty.

A Romo cable says that Italy is demanding an indemnity of £7OOO, sis* an apology, from Afghanistan in connexion with tho execution at Kabul of an Italian, Pipcrno, for the alleged killlag of an Afghan soldier.

A Paris message states that an army airplano caught fire in mid-air at Istres. Tho pilot was incinerated. Another bomber mot with a similar mishap *; Bourges, but landed safely. The five occupants were terribly burned.

Certificates of honour issued to exhibitors at Wembley in the 1924 Exhibition wore printed on foreign pap*? (aays a London cable). The printer asked the authorities to -withdraw t'so certificates, and offered' to reprint oa British paper at his own expense.

A young woman, convicted i:i Adelaide of obtaining £s6* worth of wearing apparel, including six frocks, ucd«r a false namo, plc&ded that she wanted a husbaud, and thought ''those clod.es would get mo ond." She was given tho benefit of the First Offenders Act.

Mary Crompton, aged 36, an American, who suffered from neurasthenia, last week ordered her own coma (says a Paris message). On Saturday, alter driving in a taxi-cab for several hoar*, she ordored the driver to go to the Bois do Boulogne. The chauffeur there heard allots, and, on searching, foend the woman dead. Sho bad shot herself in tho breast several times. A letter in her pocket asked her relatives in Chicago to pay for the funeral, and gave the undertaker's address.

A 'battle between the police and » gang of dosperadoes in Chicago mulled in tho fytal shooting of two poncesergeanta and John Gonna, one of tho attackers. TJio troublo arose (says a New York cable) in connexion with tho recent assassination of Gcnna'a brother.

Dispatches from Karenko (Formosa) report a eeriea of earthquakes on Sunday (says a Tokyo cable) doing extensive damage to building*. There were no casualties.