Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 173, 12 October 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

FRENCH COMMUNISTS. The Paris correspondent of ‘The Times” says the Lille police raided a Communist printing office, arrested the * manager, Fourcade, and seized Communist papers and pamphlets. Fourcade was charged with inciting soldiers to disobedience.—Times. EMPIRE AGRICULTURE. The Imperial Agricultural Conference has appointed 11 special committees, including one on dairying, with I)r. S. S. Cameron as chairman. The chairman of the committee on plant breeding is Professor A. E. V. Richardson.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. MEXICAN REVOLT.—A message from Mexico City says the Mexican Government reports that the rebel forces' tinder’ General CoMez, numbering 2,000 troops, have been routed by Federal troops after a battle which lasted six hours. The revolution has now been suppressed.—A. and N.Z.Sun. LABOUR IN BRITAIN. —Th* “Daily Mail” says 18 prominent members of the British Labour Party have formed a committee with the object of cement- - ing the brotherhood of the British and the Russian workers. They are appealing for funds to send a British delegation to Russia on the tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution.—A. and N.Z. SUEZ CANAL RECORD-—A report by the Suez Canal Company states that the traffic through the canal for eight months was 2,395,000 tons, the highest tonnage ever attained for the period. For the first time since the war the German flag has returned to the position it held in 1913, and the German tonnage was the second highest.—A. and N.Z. WOMEN IN WARFARE —The Riga correspondent or “The Times” says that the Soviet Commissar for War, Voroshiloff, in a speech at a women’s congress in Moscow, said that in time of peace the Red Army accepted women as volunteers only, but the Soviet law provided for compulsory military service by women in war time. —A. and N.Z. SENTENCES COMMUTED.—Th < New South Wales Executive Council has commuted the death sentence* passed on Norman Clyde McPherson for the murder of Margaret Quin, a waitress, in Sydney on .Tune 16, to imprisonment for life, and on George Buckley, for the murder of his wifd at Newcastle on April 16. to imprisonment for 10 years.—-A. and N.Z. ARMIES OF THE DEAD—When r former private soldier, who had been i disabled in the war, unveiled the Norj wich war memorial in the presence of 40,000 people. Sir lan Hamilton said that by choosing a disabled soldier to unveil the memorial Norwich had : assured closer relations between the armies of the dead and of the living than if they had appointed to that duty j any statesman or general, however famous.—A. and N.Z.