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CONSUL KILLED..
OUTRAGE ON "FRENCH OFFICER.
TROOPS RUSHED UP.
Peking, Nov. Bandits killed the French Con- sol M. Robert, of Hangehow, on ¦October #1, while he was motoring from there to Langaon, in Indo- China-Router.
Lungehow is in Kwangsi pro- ¡vinee, near the boundway separating Textna and Indo-China. 1 should
not be confused with a minor town. la"the same" name in Kwangtally [province.)
Body Found in Grove.
Luter.
M. Robert was accompanied by Patensieer Cades, un administrator
in the French Colonial service,
The gang of bandits or pirates jattacked them 25 kilometres from Lungehow in Kwangsi province whence they had started early in the, morning.
The Chinese authoritley, on hear- Ling the news, sent a battalion of |troops who arrived on the spot at two in the afternoon and found M, Roberts's corpse
izmit Kvove. pierced by two bullets in the head and stomach.
M. Cadet and the Annamite ahauffeur were dragged away by the bandits but managed to escape and after 21 hours' exhausting walking, arrived safely at the French Consulate at Lungchow on the night of Nov. '1.
BOLOGNA CRIME...
ASSAILANT'S FATHER'S« BAD-
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MURDER TRIAL.
EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST
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SOCIETY WOMAN'S DEFENCE.
Somerville (New Jersey), Nov. 2. Extraordinary interest is being taken in the trial of Mrs. Hall and her two brothers on a charge of murder of the Rev. E. Hall and Mrs. Mills..
COAL STRUGGLE
SEAMEN'S UNION REJECTS EMBARGO,
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Rugby, Nov. 2. At a conference held this after- noow between,, representatives the various transport Unions und ef an embargo on foreign coal was the Miners' Executive the question
discussed. "
Two hundred Pressmen will re
It is officially announced that the port the proceedings for the news-conference decided to adjourn to papers all over the country. An enable a report to be made to the
Rev. E. Hall.
attempt will be made to wirelessly broadcast the descriptions, at though the Judge refused to allow a microphone in Court. » Film cameras; however, have been, in- stalled in the Court Room
General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
Nothing is said in the official state- ment as to the views expressed at the conference, but this silence is regarded as confirming articipa- tions that the transport workers did not approve an embargo, which! had already been declared imprac ticable by their leaders.
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the The admission is made that Associated Soetely of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, which is 032 of the two railwaymen's Unions, declined even to send re- presentatives.
Ita also Tourmeds unofficially that] a ballot of the National Union of Seamen was announced. Only 908 voted in favour of an embargo and 10,060 were against it.
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The Levy Proposal. To-morrow representatives of all the Trades Unions will meet to 'con- sider the miners' proposal for.. levy. It is considered that nega- tive decisions, both in regard to an emburgo and in regard to a levy Counsel for the defence. who is are foregone conclusions, and it is. most keenly alive to publicity, has expected that when the miners' distributed newspapers with delegates assemble in London later specially posed pictures of Mrs. in the week these negative decisions Hall requesting that they be used will have an important effect in preference to hasty snap-British Wireless Service. shots which do not do justice to- his wealthy client.
Bologni, November 2 An official communique states that Mussolini's assailant's father is an ex-anarchist who compelled fhis son to leave the Young Fascist The defence is a complete alibi.
organisation of which he WAS a-Reûter's American Service.
MES HALL!!
HENRY STEVENS
No Help From U.S. Seamen.
New York, November 2.
A poll of British seamen belong;
Q
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WILLIE STEVENS
HENR CARPENDER
Mrs. Frances Stevens Fall is shown pleading not guilty to the charge of murdering her bus bund, Rey, Edward Hall, and his lover, Mrs. Eleanor Mills. Willie Stevens,, Henry Stevens, her brothers, and Henry de la B. Carpender, her cousin, made similar pleas in court at
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member, but apparently the father has not participated in subversive activities for many years.
Enquiries are proceeding with a view to discovering others respon- aible for the crime.-Reuter."
Rome, November 2.
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A huge demonstration of thou- sands of Fasclets and representa- tives of ex-service organisations thunderously cheered Mussolini.
The Secretary-General of the Fascist party of Turati in a speech declared that Fasciats demanded the death penalty on those behind the dastardly attempt.-Reater.
Fatal Disturbances.
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IMAGINATION?
CHARGE AGAINST MEXICAN" CATHOLICS.
Mexico City, November 2.
In connection with the annihila- tion of a small band of "fanatics" In the State of Durango led by General Gallegos, a Government claims. that the communique
Catholic episcopate fa Roman
疽 revolution," The organizing episcopate has made a statement denying it ever authorised any re bellion or attempt at rebellion. in
in American porte resulted in an overwhelming rejection, of the pro- posals that seamen refuse, to sign
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various parts of Italy in sequence of the attempt on Signor Mussolini's life," two people being.
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A Fascist at Cagliari climbed to JAPANESE FINANCES.
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Tokyo, Nov; 2. The Finance Minister, speaking at a Kennelka party meeting to tight, definitely stated that the Government's recent action in. lowering the discount rate, and also sending specle abroad is not connected with the intention of raising the gold embargo which has not yet been contemplated-Reu-
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