MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18426, 6 July 1925, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

During tho Bakrid festival of Calcutta, a riot occurred at tho docks. Fifteen hundred Hindus attacked two hundred Moslems, of whom ono was killed and thirty-eight wero injured. Prompt polico action prevented retaliation.

The lato Sir Edward Hulton, the English newspaper magnate, let! £2,222.000. Death duties amount to over £900,000.

It has been definitely decided by tho Queensland State Health authorities that tho second suspicious ease is not plague, but a form of blood poisoning.

A message from Moscow states that three German students, alleged to belong to the German reactionary "Konsul': organisation, ltavo been sentenced to death on a charge of plotting to assassinate Trotzky and Stalin.

An order for waterworks pipes for the Cape Town Municipality, worth nearly jL'ooo,lXX>. has gone to firms in Germany and Czoeho-rflomkia. saving over £IO.OOO on Iho lowest British tender.

A London message announces the death of Air K. F. Knight, ''Morning Post" war correspondent, who served with the French army in IS7O. He lost !.is right arm when acting as correspondent in South Africa, and learned to write let't-hnnded. ile accompanied King George on his world tour in 1901.

The official verdict- is published of tho preliminary examination of Unchidarv Ohei. the noted reactionary and his accomplices, finding them guilty of plotting the Primo Minister's assassination and the blowing up of the Diet building as a protest against the Manhood Suffrage Bill.

A cablo message from New York states that a dispatch from Bogota reports that Manizales, a flourishing «dty of 43.000 population in Colombia, vras entirely swept by fire. The wotden houses blazed like a huge bonfire. Five persons were killed.