WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1923.
CAIRO
TEARS IN COURT.
MURDER TRIAL DRAMA.
TENSE SCENES.
Ex-Convict Who Tracked the Plotters.
Tenge scenes were witnessed in court at Cuirp yesterday when nine men were placed on trial in connection with the Sirdar's murder,
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HAIL OF SHOTS. (Reuter's Service.)
Cairo, May 26.
A court with three judges has begun the triad of nile mon charged with having been concerned in the murder of the Sirdur.
Tho"wo strulat Irothers Enaiat nervously respiterk their Lion in the crime.
Marsh, said he saw three gunmet close to the car and two others be hind. A bullet penetrated the door and entered his leg: A second went through the top of his tarbush and a third grazed the back of his neck.
The ex-convict Holbawi, who assisted the police to track the per- petrators of the crime, told a hushed participacourt how..be gained the confidence of the prisoners and extracted the story of the murder from them. Ele induced them to fee, thus leading to their arrest in the trin.
The hearing was adjourned,
THE MURDERED SIRDAR.
General Sir Leg Stück who was assin's fatally injured by an bomb in Cairo in Nurember last
Another
prisoner Malunced
Rashed broke down and wept while
peuting his confession.
Five of this prisoners demed com- plicity in the murder.
the
Captain Campbell, the Sirdar's aido de mp,, describing murder, sud a score of shuɔts were fired, sis almost smultaneously.
The Sirdar's clandetin.
ing
EXPORT OF ARMS,
41,380,000 IN FOUR MONTHS.
www.
(Reuter's Service.)
Mr.
London, May 21.
In the House of Commons, reply
Commndr. to
hut Board of Traile
Kenworthy
SEAL OF SUCCESS.
Prince of Wales's Triumph.
FREE STATE'S WELCOME..
DUTCH STOLIDITY STIRRED.
(Reuter's Service.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
DELICATE POSITION.
SECURITY PACT
CAUTION.
DRAFT NOTE QUERY.
British And French Views Still Differ.
The proposed security pact embracing Britain, France and Germany still remains, the subject of differences among the three. Powers.
CABINET CONSIDER. (Reuter's Service,)
$1,000 FINE. "MORPHINE ABOARD
PYE
to
reply to the British request for the elucidation of certain points in Franco's draft note Germany.
This reply was only received in London yesterday and up to the present there has not been time to study the very complicated docu-
It is recognised that matters have reached a stage where the. details of British policy must be alled in, but in view of French opinion on the subject of security, the greatest caution is being shown in well-informed circles as regards making a forecast which might be susceptible to different interpretations by the various cabinetä.
Bloemfontein, May 26. The magnificent welcome of the past two days has set the seal of
London, May 26. success on the Prince of Wales's tour of the Orange Free State, That British and French views which is thus in every way to on the subject of the security patt a beneficial influence on and disarmament are still not re- have
conciled appears from a cautious-ment. Anglo-Dutch relations.,
The Prince yesterday rode at ly worded authoritative stats- the head of a picked representa- ment announcing that the Cabinet tive commando.of 2,000 through will shortly consider France's cheering multitudes.
was officially wel- To duy he comed by the municipality, when practically the whole company of The Sidar of Egypt, Sir LeeDutchman, who forsook their cus- Oliver Stack, G.B.B., C.M.G., was tomary stolidity, gave him a rous- Tatally injured on November 19. ing reception. Two bomba were thrown at him as he was driving from the Ministry For War. Three of the four assailante escaped when the one bomb did not explode. They fired several rounds from revolvers, hitting Sir Leo Stuck, his Aide-de-Camp. Captain Campbell of the Black Watch, the ehauffeur and a policemurs. The the Birdhar was badly wounded in stomach and had to be taken hospital, where he later succumbed. The attack on the Sirdar was made and in Shariskas Relain, a main
The busy thoroughfare of Cairo.
wounds, elauffen. despite his
ta
drive off at full speed and brought the cur, to the Residency, which is nearer than the Sirdaria (Sirdar's residance)
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SPEED DEMON:
MOTOR BOAT RACES TRAIN.
SPECTACULAR.CONTEST.
(Reuter's American Service.)
New York, May 26.
The famous "Twentieth Cen- tury Limited" express train, which was defeated last week by a motor boat, in a race along the Hudson River from New York to Albany, raced two motor boats this morning from Albany to New York.
Thousands of spectators, lined the banks of the river. One of the motor boats, piloted by the well-known racer Garwood, broke down, but the other, piloted by George Wood, completed the course in two and three-quarter hours, beating the train by twenty-five minutes.
(Liberal), Mr. A. M. Samuel, Parlantary Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, said
licences ing. wer required for the export from Britain of all arms and duni Leon.
About 4,500 licences had beeni granted in the present year.
The total declared value of the army and munitions and oval nad military stores exported during the Erst four months of the year was £1,380,000, sterling. including naval and military stores going to British garrisons iårond,
Kopests for licences were very carefully examined.
ARMS FOR CHINA.
In the House of Commoueply ing to Mr. R. C. Wallieu (Labour), Mr. Samuel stated that during the present year nine applications for licences for the export of arms to China had been received. All had been granted.
The weapons licensed were seven revolvers and two sporting rifles For personal une.
The consignees were two cattle killers for the Shanghai municipal authorities.
Licences were also granted, in nine cases for the export of aanmuni- tion, mostly in small quantities. The only important shipments were destined for the Shanghai volunteers and police.
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BITTER PILLS."
FRANCE'S HEAVIER
TAXATION..
INEXORABLE."
CAILLAUX ON PAINFUL
REMEDINA.
(Reuters Service.)
STEAMER. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
SINGAPORE, May 26
The captain of the Haruna Maru," from England, was..... fined. $1,000 on account of 80 lbs. of morphine discovered aboard his ship here.
Paris, May 25. Bitter pills are foreshadowed in the appeal to the putriotism of the nasion issued by M. Caillaux,I.
SOVIET GOLD?
£900,000 SALE TO BANK' OF ENGLAND
(Reuter's Service.)
MJ
HANKOW STRIKES. (Courtesy of the Daily Bulletín.)
HANKOW, May 26
The local sizike situation developed yesterday by the additional stoppage for rather indefinite reasons regarding over. time and wages of the Internation- al Export Company's workers.
At a conference with the latter last evening, the wages increase was agreed upon, and a resump. tion of work was promised
the workers by
-to-day, but after a last-minute refusal fresh de- mands. were presented, and at pre- sent there is no further attempt at à conference.
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LONDON, May 26 In the House of Commons, Mr. I. Albery declared that £900,000 worth of bar gold had been de posted in England on behalf of the Soviet Government. He asked
Discussions were also held with whether the Government had any the British Cigarette Company's, information lending to show that workers last night, with the result the Soviet intends to utilise it to that the strikers' numerous de- re-establish the credit of Russia mands were reduced to (1) increas with a view to making trade withed wages, and (2) that the workers Soviet Russia again possible on an would not be dismissed. ordinary commerical basis.
Col. W. Guinness, Financial Secretary of the Treasury, said be understood that gold to the amount named had been sold by a broker to the Bank of England in the ordinary course of business last. week. He had no special informa tion with regard to the source of the gold or the use to which the proceeds of the sale would be put.
SALVATION ARMY (Reuter's Service,),
London, May 25. Speaking at the luncheon at the opening of the new Salvation Army Pavilion at Wembley, Com- missioner E. J. Higgins announc- ed that the Salvation Army intend
The answer from the head office
of the Company is being awaited.
WAGES DISPUTE.
COTTON WORKERS LOCKED OUT.
(Reuter's Service.)
VIENNA, May 27. Twelve thousand cotton workers have been locked out in Lower Austria owing to a wages dispute. It is expected that 800 employes in the printing mills will also be locked out.
ور
ITAY'S DEBTS.
(Reuter's American Service.)
WASHINGTON, May 26. The first conference has been the Italian Am-
National interest was taken in Minister of Finance, laying down to erect new buildings at a cost the contest, although the railway the regime of many taxes, heavy of over £200,000 in 1925 in cele- company officially denied that taxation on all invoices without ex-bration of the seventieth birthday held between they were in any wise participat-ception and inexorable taxation of of General Booth, including a new bassador and Mr. Mellon, Secre
wealth," aiming firstly at the re- Acroplanes followed the race habilitation of France preparatory training depôt and hospitals in tary of the Treasury, presumably with wireless broadcasters to returning to the gold standard. India and Ceylon, also extensions as regards the Italo-American debt. M. Caillaux regretted that the in China, Japan, the Dutch Indies, aboard.
limited nature of the financial Nigeria; South Africa, Kenya, and
East Africa. pharmacopeia necessitatos applying Fold and painful remedies. He hoped.
Sofia, May 26A Court Martial the publie would reinvest the pro- ceeds of short term loans which are has sentenced to death three mem- continually maturing and promised bors of illegal communist organisa- tions/ Twenty were imprisoned to introduce a measure covering possible crises. In this regard he for terms between eight years and declared that financial reform would ten years and two were acquitted. Lako several years because when the The pursuit successfully continues present uncertain obligations were of bands of brigands who are
reach endeavouring -10. Capt. Wedgwood Benn (Liberal) met, like, the current budgetary mountains. Some bands have been | Bulletin. asked whether the value situation, the reconstruction of the of the artificial silk imported into liberated regions and inter-allied America from Britain would be debts, France would still be faced calculated for the purpose of duty with a crushing internal debt of 280 at the selling price in England in spite of any export rebate.
SILK DUTY
EXPORTS TO UNITED STATES.
(Reuter's American Service.)
LONDON, May 26. In the House of Commons,
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Mr. A. M. Samuel, Parliamen- tory Secretary of the Department i of the Overseas Trade, replied in the affirmative.
Capt. Wedgwood Benn sug. gested that a rebate would there- fore be valueless to the exporters of artificial silk articles to the United States.
the
milliard francs.
LONG TERM LOANS. DEVELOPING AUSTRIA'S
AGRICULTURE...
(Reuter's Service.)
VIENNA, May 26.
Mr. Samuel expressed. opinion that the value would be Long term loans aggregating the selling price without rebate $5,000,000 have been arranged with but it was very difficult to un- the United States to develop ravel the United States regula Austrian agriculture. tions.
WOUTS
NORTH
Allahabad, May 26-According to the Pioneer" 5,000 boxes of. ammunition: were. landed at Karachi for despatch to Kabul where further Russian aeroplanes with pilots and mechanics have arrived with a view of preventing any repetition of the recent out break in the Khost district. The personnel of the recently formed Afghan air force is mostly Russian at present, but so young Afghans have been sent to Rusila to be trained as airmen Reuter,
London, May 26--In view of the fact that the whole position is to be. explored by the committee which the government propose to establish | next autuma, Mr. Balt announc the Hor
wiped out-Reuter.
to
Peking, May 26-Wu Hsin-tien has telegraphed to the Government to the effect that three divisions of Sun. Yueh's troops have arrived at
Government the the Honan-Shensi border, and he requests instruct Sun Yueh to discontinue his threatening movement. Wang Itang also reports that Kiangsu have invaded. southern Anhoi troops under Chang Teh-shing the near Hueichow-Courtesy of the
London, May 26-The Dutch Government have ordered two additional torpedo boat destroyers to be built in Holland to Yarrow designs and fitted with Yarrow bollers. Reuter. -
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New York, May 26.-Prohibition authorities announce the extension of operations against rum running to the Pacific Coast, where they with equal will be carried on intensity to those on the Atlantic. -Reuter's American Service.
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