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Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] COMMUNISTS IN EGYPT. CAIRO, Jan. 20. Of the eighteen Communists arrested in June, following on police observation of their activities, three, Weiss. Palak and Antonin, were sentenced to three years imprisonment and four others to imprisonment varying from a year to six months. The balance, including the wormian Rosenthal, were acquitted.
The case was heard in camera and it was alleged that Weiss’ real name was Kossoy and that lie received instructions from Moscow. He luul been active in Palestine ami Egypt. A. letter from .Moscow which was intercepted, complained of the little headway lie was making among the Fellaheen (peasant ry).
SOVIET AIMS IN U.S.A. NEW YORK, Jan. 20. John Stnchcl (secretary of the Communist Party of America) states Communists spent almost a million dollars last year on propaganda, the aim of which is the. eventual establishment of a Soviet Government in United States. The money was* raised by public meetings and private subscriptions, and is being used to educate the workers in Soviet doctrines. They spent seven hundred thousand dollars in 1923 with the object of destroying the American form of Government. Patriotic organisations with which ho and Hunker are connected bad a difficulty In raising seventy thousand dollars tor patriotic purpose’s. Stnchcl said Hooker's figures, seven hundred thousand, were an under statement. WOOI/ PRICES DECLINELONDON. Jan. 20. The wool sales opened with prices showing a decline ol five to seven and a half per cent. KARS GROWING LARGER. BERLIN. Jan. 20. Doctor Pl'uffer, a Viennese ear specialist, has demonstrated, by measurements, that the human ear is growing larger with successive generations. He smggcsts that this is due to toe increased number and volume ol sounds in modern life. An interesting p >inl i~ raised as to what elfeet wireless head-phones may produce. MOTHER AGED 140— SON 117. TEHERAN, Jan. 20.
The first census in the history of Persia, has revealed a woman aged 146, who is living in n mountain village with her soil aged 117.
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