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SOVIET ARMY · AND STALIN.
TROOPS READY TO END COMMUNISM.
DICTATOR'S HAND FORCED.
Russian developments of far- reaching significance are reported by the secret Moscow
correspon.
MAD OFFICER.
DRAMA OF THE SAHARA,
WOULD-BE EMPEROR SHOT.
At last the full and thrilling story of an African desert drama be told, of over 30 years ago can (says a Paris message of mail week.
It concerns "an Empire of the
Sahara" and clears up what was once an official riddle of the sands.
In July, 1899, Captains Voulet for War, excitedly demanded the und Chanoine, of the French abandonment of measures of re- Colonial army, lost their lives in
THE CHINA MAIL.
DEATH PENALTY A TIENTSIN ARRESTS. THE MAN
DETERRENT.
LAWYERS FAVOUR
RETENTION.
LONGER SENTENCES.
-
SOME STRANGE REVELATIONS.
INTERNATIONAL GROUP,
Tientsin, June 2.
The French Police at Tientsin Solicitors, through the govern- have been instrumental in round- ling body of the profession, theng up a number of persons who are accused of obtaining goods by Law Society. favour the retention faise protonces. of capital punishment.
WHO IS EVERYTHING.
MR. SCHIPPABOTHAM, OF CARDIFF.
A MERRY MUSSOLINI.
There are 260,000 people. In Cardiff. Why did I choose Coun- elllor Albert Ernest Schippabotham, The Man Who la Everything, to tell pondent of the otheial Menshevik or gan published in Berlin in the Rus
It appears that in the month me about the complaints of Cardiff ? sian language. This well-informed Though not properly understood Sir Reginald Pote, represent of February last, Messrs. Racine "It is no good chattering to me; writer confirms that it was the in- at the time, its beginnings created ing the Council of the Society, and Co., the well-known French look you," said a native named
the Select Committee tervention of the Red Army which a lively sensation, and caused the tuld
on import and export firm, sold to a Higgins. "You must see a coun- cuused Stalin's precipitate retreat resignation of the French War Capital Punishment on May 7 man named Krepensky allas Goen-cillor—yes, I will show you one."
that his council from his drastic agrarian policy. Minister.
(most of whose nert various goods to the amount "What's his name?" I asked. The conversion of the
Now the full narrative has been fifty members he had canvassed) of $697.85. The transaction was despot
Mr. Schippabotham," said the took place at a meeting of the revealed, for the first time, by Gen-held that view.
'supposed to be a cash transaction native. Sir Reginald Was Folitbureau, which is the reat eral doulland (an eye-witness of the
asked to but Krepensky made some excuse I found Councillor Albert Ernest the Government of Russia.
analyse At this affair), in a lecture at Lorient.
psychology which and promised to send the money Schippabothem in the company of conclave Voroshiloff, the Minister
made capital punishment a deter to the firm within a day or two. Councillors Wills and Hughes. rent. He said:-
A few days later, as no offer drinking coffee in a cosy little cafe. "Visualise a highway robbery to pay was made, the firm got I did not believo him at first. pression against the Kulaks (bet-mysterious circumstances the and a man on the ground scream- into communication with Krepen-looked like a merry Mussolini, with of the highwaymen sky urging him to make payment. a great pipe stuck in his mouth and says, 'I will stop your noise, and Krepensky then, it is alleged, Welsh jests crackling from his,
if to kill him. makes as
A tendered two cheques, each of tongue. second highwaymun saya, 'Don't, $150. One cheque was, it is fur Occasionally he would reach over Bill, or you'll swing"."
ther alleged. signed by a Mr. and sock Councillor Wills on the "I think that the psychological Artynoff and the other by a Mr. back. And Councillor Wills would effect of that would be very like- Ross.
The last-named is a Bri-say, "Heh!" and Councillor Schip- to save the man's life.
tish subject. Both these cheques pabotham would laugh. "Ho! hol "Another effect of abolition were returned by the Bank mark-ho" like a skittish Titani
or Account clos would be that the more serious ed "No funds" kind of criminals would be likely ed." lo arm themselves. Again, a mur-
On March 18, after some fur- derer might easily take the father efforts
payment on
on
ter-class peasants), declaring that Chad Road, North of Nigeria. hundreds of letters received by They were at the head of an ex- him from soldiers showed the pedition sent out to reconnoltre the existence in the army of serious country eastwards from the Niger discontent account of the bend towards Lake Chad. policy of "dekulakisation" and col- 'lectivisation.
on
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An Angry Seene. Stalin's only reply was ironical laughter.. This
irritated Varoshiloff that he tore open his portfolio, pulled out a fat sheaf of letters, and hurled it across the table. Whether by design or ac- cident, the bundle hit Stalin in the face. A great uproar followed, and leading Bolsheviks slate that Voroshiloff was actually declared under domiciliary arrest.
own
Their mission included anta Pallier and Joalland.
Lieuten-
The latter is now Gen, Joalland, who has just retired, and who is the lecturer at Lorient who reveals the full story of the desert:]
There were also a Dr. Henri, three non-corns, and 700 native men and women.
needless cruelties..
Governor-
Ing. One
been sent to
to get
laid
He
I
Trams And Rates. "Councillor - Schippabotham," said with dignity, "I hear your trams are rotten and don't pay."
"I am on the Trum Committee," said Councillor Schippabatham, "but I always did like tact!"
"Er... I am told by many Cardiff citizens that the rates are extor- tionate and unfair," I stammered, "Can you confirm that?"
of a warder on the chance of es-the part of Messrs. Racine and cape. Assuming that the murder-Co.. Krepensky tendered a guaran- To be Recaller. General Joalland is quoted by theer had been sentenced to the or-tee to pay the debt within two "Intransigeant" as stating that dinary fe sentence, which expir-months from date in the name of of twenty years.the Tsiu Hing Hiang tailors Veulet and Chanoine were guilty of ed at the end
I do not believe that the prospect shop in Taku Road. This guaran- of a "longer' sentence would be tee came to maturity on May 17 However, at this meeting was Hearing of this, the drawn up the famous article in General sent & Col. Klobb and aikely to act as a deterrent."
without any payment having been
"I might if I wasn't on the Fin- which radical changes in the Lieut. Meynier to relieve them of Murder Cases and Publicity. made.
ance Committee," smiled Councillor peasant policy were ordered. their commands.
He thought that the wide pub-
Krepensky, Artynoff and Chang Schippabotham. "I can't run Cardiff Stalin issued it under his
proprietor When Klobb overtook the expedi-licity given to murder cases help-Tiu-cheng,
of the down, but I can tell you funny name, "to consolidate at the cost tion, Voulet threatened him with cd justice. Publicity in litiga-Hing Illang shop, were then ar stories about Welch tradesmen, if
and have of the party his own personal death if he advanced. He took no tien brought evidence of material rested by the police
you like." authority in the country, and to notice, and Voulet, giving the order value, often for both parties,
the Chinese yamen "Schippabetham.". I bleated in appear in the eyes of the peasants to fire, Klobb. fell dead.
With the exception of a few where they await the hearing of agony, "I am told that the girls.... and soldiers as their saviour from Voulet then harangued the offi- poisoning coaca, most murders charges of obtaining goods byer, the youth of Cardiff isn't .... the afflictions of collectivisation." cers, saying he had caused Klobb to were committed by members of false pretences. It is understood er.... The correspondent considers it be killed because he (Voulet) had the tower classes and were crimes that information has been
"Wrong again," said the inevit- with H.B.M. Consulate-General significant that the dictators are "resolved to found an empire of the of passion.
able Schippabotham. "I'm on the already beginning to seek support Sahara."
The chairman (Rev. James charging a British subject with
Watch Committee.” outside the party, in the street, "I have the troops," cried the Rarr).-Do you think that in having uttered a cheque with in-
"Councillor," I gasped, "at least and, of course, above all, in the self-appointed Emperor of the De-cases of that kind capital punish-tent to deceive.
From further enquiries, it aplike it."
give me a photograph of your face. army."
sert. I am my own master; are tent acts as a deterrent?-Not The army is "becoming ever you with me or against?""
always. Some murders are compears that the Tsiu Hing Hinng, "What! With me head of more and more permeated by the Lieut. (now General) Joalland mitted in the heat of the moment. Shop, which also trades under Welah. Pictorial Agency-a photo- sense of its own strength, ever asked for a few hours to reflect, and Suppose a
of Ah Sing and Co., man comes his the name
on
grapher myself," guarded Councillor more convinced that it is the de next morning persuaded 30 riflemen wife's lover and kills him.
His Taku Road, has also given a Ubique. "Young man, this is Black eiding force, and that what to desert with him.
one idea is to kill. I do not be guarantee to the amount of $2,500 Wednesday for you!" wants it can have." Already the
A Woman in the Case. lieve that he even thinks of the to the French firm of P. Sandrie
The "Over Forties." view is widespread that, "If famino When Voulet made his proposals death penalty,
And then a splendid fellow one comes, it will put an end to Come to the native non-coms., they decided Sir Reginald said he would to guarantee the payment ni Mr. B. Jones-chipped in. "Schip- munism in two ticks without a soul to bolt. Chanoine ran in their mimimise the number of women cargo purchased by Mr. K. T.pabotham," he said acidly, "every considering the question what will direction-whether to stop them or executed.
Gnarowski who gave an address
man over torty in Cardiff has bron- happen on the morrow.
go with them Is not known-and The chairman-Do you think at 31, Elgin Avenue, Tientsin. "The army, which has saved theị
was shot. village from the collectivisation extravaganza, is coming to be de finitely connected in peoples' minds with hopes of liberation from Bol thevism."
Voulet took to the bush with a native woman but reappeared after the troops had been reformed by Joalland and Meynier, and was shot dead by a sentry who said Voulet fired first.
el Cic. 8, Rue Chevrier, Tientsin,
the
that that would remove the deter It acems that Gnarowski has chitis. The taxicabs are vile! The
rency?-No, because the crime of paid nothing and murder already is a very
rare scape from thing among women.
" said Mr. B. Jones.
trams are worse! Moreover, the has made his
town, is as cold as ice, and we are the town. He is wanted by the police on charges pestered by a gang of darn finnicky, Sir Reginald did not think that of abuse of confidence and obtain Pop-speaking prohibitionists — what
about it, lock you!" on wasax merchandise
faise pre- the graduation of murders
"Jones," said Schippabotham tences. Famine Certain.
practicable. That famine is practically cer- The War Minister at the time,
"Thin question must be a con- Another fraud, similar to these softly, "your house is underrated, tain this year, the correspondent whose resignation
arose from the troversy between the emotional already related, is alleged to have isn't it?" has no doubt. In this he anticipated half-told scandal of 1899, was Gen-
the unemotional, between keen perpetrated on a prominent twriting on May 7) the figures eral Chanoine, father of the officer those who feel strongly about the British firm in Tientsin and the pubished in Moscow which who was shot in the desert.
sacredness of human life and the police have reason to believe that show that at present leas
fact of deliberately killing a man, there is a group of upwards of a than one-half of the prescribed |
and those who look at the matter dozen men, Europeans and Chin area has received its spring sow-
simply from the point of view of cee, involved.-F. & T. Times. ngs. Indeed, he throws the first
the State." trustworthy light on. the con- sequences of Stalin's reversal of What has happened, he policy. says, is that very little has been left for the collective farms.
IDLE LIST.
JAPANESE COMMIT ARSON TO LIVE.
Tokyo, June 2,
arson was
TRIPS TO THE MOON.Į
FUTURE.
Trips to the moon and back In
the
MEERUT TRIAL.
N
PROTESTS IN COMMONS AGAINST DELAY.
London, May 19.
out
"I tell you how I jammed the prohibitionists," said Schippa- betham. "We have a brewer named Brains, and when they wanted to stop drink advertisements on the trams I pointed out the high moral tone of the ads. 'You must have Brains,!"
TUESDAY,
JUNE 24, 1930.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, pline, and altho.)
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"Ho ho ho!" and Councillor Wills ducked just in time.-D. D. in Daily Express.
1999
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OLD RAZOR BLADES.
The peasants have stampeded As alarming increase in the | ASTRONOMER'S VISION OF THE back to individualistic cultivation.number of cases of arson is not-i But in many cases they are con-ed by authorities of Kanagawa fining their sowings to what will Prefecture who believe the in- meet their own domestic needs. crease is directly traceable to
Apropos of the destruction of old Thus a amali harvest is inevitable, current hard times. Of 27 Incen-
razor blades, a legal correspondent and even prominent Bolsheviks ad- clary fires investigated during 120 years time by cannon-ball, the Meerut conspiracy trial were anxious to rid themselves of these Protests against the delay in writes: "Why are some people so mit that "the position is catastro the first quarter of the year, 26 and conversations by telephone made in the House of Commons useful articles which can by a sim- phic, and how we are going to get were due to efforts of household-over beams of light between the
to-day 'by Major-General Sir out of it we don't know."
money moon and earth, were the topica Aifred Knox, Unionist member Take a dull blade of the 'Gillette' era, to collect Insurance
ple trick be constantly re-sharpened? In the villages Stalin's recanto- badly needed because of unem of an address delivered in Brook fur Wycombe, and Col. Howard-type and insert it lengthways in a tion has had a tranquillising effect.ployment.
lyn by Dr. John Y. Stewart," as- "The open risings and fights which Because of the extreme danger sociate Professor of Astronomy at Bury Unionist member for Chelms tumbler which has been damped
ford, who suggested the estab with cold took place in March have," we are offre spreading rapidly in frall Princeton University.
water. Place the fore- told, "been replaced by the Japanese houses,
lishment of a special court' simi- The professor described at
finger lightly upon the centre of the deliberate and systematic fogging one time considered the most seri-vehicle for the lunar voyage, as
lar to that set up at Lahore. blade and work the same up and of Communists, who now hardly cus of all crimes, and in feudal a sphere bristling with cannon, was not proposed to adopt this half a dozen times. Tern over the Mr. Wedgwood Benn said it down the curved sides of the glass dare to show themselves is the days an incendiary was punished which would be propelled Into village Sovieta."
Euggestion, and the
he pointed by being burned. to death. Even space after
manner of a
blade an repeat the process, when that, at Lahore, the magistrate's Revolts Admitted.
to-day the penalties are extreme-rocket.
you will find that after about six inquiry was superseded while at seconds exercise you will have pro- Risings, however, still occur in ly heavy.
The sphere, which would be the Caucasus. In March they as
A large increase in petty crimes about 110 feet in diareeter and Meerut it had not been suspend-duced fine new edges to the blade. sumed dimensiona so serious that committed by jobless mon who weigh 70,000 metric tons, would ed, and his inquiry had ended. This is a way to restrain bad temper
Replying to several invitations large forces, with artillery and hope to obtain a few days' board maintain its speed by high power for a statement: regarding the and to restrict Imports." aeroplanes, were sent from Moscow and lodging in jail is also not-discharges from side tubes.
I prefer to use & mechanical situation fa India, Mr. Benn said to suppress them. It is stated in ed by the prefectural authorities.
It would carry a crew of 60
stropper; but sooner or later-1| he proposed to circulate an ap- Moscow that some towns were in The theft of an empty box or and a group of scientists as pus-éciation of the situation up to may be only after very many months the hands of the insurrectionaries bottle or the breaking of a win- seugers. for a fortnight. Such cases were, dow will land a man behind the During its trajectory it would May 17 as received from the Gov-a time arrives when the blade must be thrown away-Morning "of course," explated with rivers hars for a day or two while attain a speed of 50,000 miles an Brockway (Soc. Leyton), asked
ernment of India. Mr. Fenner Post. police are investigating his crime. hour. To allow the giant rocket for an early opportunity for dis- Berlin repeats Bolshevik leased, the crime not being serl-on the moon rockets would be as a matter for the Leader of official admissions that there has ous enough to warrent further fired in the opposite direction. been "an open rising against the punishment
On their arrival, the professor Boviet power In Trans-Caucasia," Investigation has revealed that said, the travellers would. And r and that even yet order has not several men have secured free themselves on a satellite whichThe Maternity and Child Welfare been completely restored.” It is bed and board in jail for nearly was airless, waterless and life-Sub-Committee of Edmonton (Lon
don, N.) District Counefl has dia- Afgnificantly added that the Mul- a month by committing those less. laha, who have very great influence petty crimes in a new district Gravity on the moon being one missed Miss Wrampling, the mstron in this region, are stirring up the every three or four days. United sixth of that on the earth the of its day nursery, who with har Population against the Soviet Gov. Press
of blood."
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VAATIA Moscow mesange published At the end of that time ho is re-propelled projectile to land gently cussion and Mr. Bean said that
ernment
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and, I are in the
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consp treachery and
the House.
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molded 17-Toward 10-To incline 20-Partioles, 214A young bear 22-A Bwedish coin 24-To make weak 25-A coal product' 28-To enumarate: 28-The heron 20-Lusterloss
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42-To'moderate:
· 34-Conjunction. 35-Note of the dove 35-Rather than th 37-Suitable
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ruler
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tions In 20-Beautiful valley in
Grasca 27-Wicked 28-Personal pronoun. 30-The East Indian VERTICAL
cedar. 31-Pigmenta 1-Barren and dry. 32-An amphibian '2-Largo drafts of 33 Harvester liquid medicine*85-1. 8. coin -Prefiaform of in 37-The closed hand 4-High mountain 35-A Brazilian coin: B-A prefix of Boottish 39-A compass point -Extata {41–Cintted blásd ? 7~To come back
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pantility
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