WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1933.
PLEAS THE LEAGUE
MUST NOT
SPIRITED
།
BY COUNSEL
London Report Of Defence Speeches.
*WRECKING NOT A NEW CRIME"
London, To-day.
Spirited speeches for the defence
M. Braude, Thornton's coun- sel, cast doubt on the evidence of the other accused against Thorn- ton, pointing out that "Wrecking is not a new crime in Russia." It was unnecessary therefore, he said, to assume that the Rus-1 sians guilty of wrecking, were under Thornton's control.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BESA AGAIN IN COURT
To-Day's Short Story.
SENKA'S
RUN AWAY" Remanded On Robbery MASTERPIECE
Lord Lytton On Sino-
Japan Dispute.
MR. CHURCHILL'S ADVICE.
Charge.
ACCUSED PROTESTS. AGAINST
DETENTION
By S. Andrew Wood.
Christ," HERE was only one casualty. That
Baked Senka and that not serious, when feebly. "Is it destroyed Joseph Evangelist Besa, who was the Cathedral of the Redeemer The policeman stared. "Long London. successful in his appeal against a was blown up to make way for ago in Russia," he answered, and Lord Lytton referred to the dis-sentence of six months Imprison- the Temple of Labour.
laughed. He was a young police- of the Britishers were made yester-pute between China and Japan in ment recently at the Supreme How old Senka Bucharov, an ex-man, so Seuka, without wasting day morning by their counsel, with a speech at Reading,
Court, again appeared at the Central bourjoi who made pasteboard time, joined in his laughter, the exception of Gregory's counsel, "I read." he said, "that Mr. Magistracy, this morning, charged figures and modelled masks for the That was in the days when the Moscow Ballet, found himself in young ones were growing very ar- who pointed out that there was no Churchill advised the League to with robbery in the Philippines.
keep out of it. He said in effect; It is understood that extradition the marble gallery under which rogant. They owned the world. case against his client.
that so great was his admiration proceedings will be instituted by the numerous sticks of gelignite had An old man had to dig his claws for the League, so sincere was Government of that country, and in been rammed he was hard put to deep to hold on to life. In the old his respect for it, so anxious was the meanwhile the Police Magis it to say himself. Red guards and mansion where Senka lived in the The that it should not fail that trate, Mr. Schofield, remanded his police ringed the doomed cathedral cellar the steely-haired girls and worked he did not want to see the League case for one week, during which for miles round. True, he had bullet-headed boys who dragged Into this question of period he will be in Police custody, found a dusty bottle under the rage for the Plan had a house komin China and Japan.
Besa complained that be had now and 'paper which was his bed intern. On bitter, winter nights Sen- "That is a rather novel point been in Victoria Gaol for 90 days. the cellar of an old mansion, and ka was allowed in. He sat by the of view from n friend of the He said: It is not legal to arrest (he was enjoying the first skinful stove and smiled sycophantically League. I am afraid that Mr. a man on suspicion. If it were, of brandy for ten years. And while he fashioned little papier- Churchill must be getting old. I then the Governor could be arrest-brandy, he remembered, always mache figures-infamous capital-
ists, silk-hatted have known him all my life, and ed. As things are, there is nothing made him precious cunning.
and pot-bellied, There he was, anyway, have never known him reluctant to prevent the Police from detaining
sitting baboon-like priests, and many entranced in his lousy fur coat be others which earned shouts of ri- himself to face difficulties or run me for six months, or six years. risks or
to undertake difficult) He stated that if the American fore a great carved face in the bald laughter and were eagerly tasks. He has faced them in Government wanted him, they should wall. An exquisitely noble and pocketed by the komsomols and A slice of black every party in the State (laugh-apply for him through their Consul gentle face that hurt with its komsomolkas.
Besa desired leave to apply for beauty and strength. It had been bread and dripping was the price, Counsel then discredited Mile.}ter). Kutuzova's evidence and sug- I have never known him ad- Habeas Corpus, but Mr. Schofield Carved by a master who had left though he did not always get it.
his soul in it. It lived, and pitied "Some day," said Senka, when! gested the unlikelihood of Monk-vise his friends to run away from advised him to see a lawyer. house and Thornton informing difficulties, and yet out of his Besa: I have not the money to the world. Senka closed his eyes her that they were "planning friendship for the League he says engage a lawyer. Can't you allow and moved his sensitive fingers
TO-MORROW'S STORY. over its sweet contours, slowly, wrecking."
'keep out, of it.'
Mr. Schofield: "It is not by running away
lingeringly.
"Christ," he said, "there is no
To-morrow's story will be "The reference to English law on es-from difficulties but by facing see the Police about that.
He is a back
Lord Marquis of His Worship then formally pionage, pointing out that it was them in accordance with the law
number. But if I could only make
Carabas," by Charles Per- directed against the collection of of the Covenant that we can find manded the case for one week.
rault. la musk like that I would curse We information in military areas, and a solution to the problem.
Vladimir Ilyitch himself, from the eaid that "What is considered in must stand by the League in any
Red Square, if necessary."
the gash in his forehead was heal- England as economic information, solution it puts forward."-Reu-
Possibly the tears in his evening, "I shall make a masterpiece. here, in the Soviet Union, in cover-
were partly brandy, yet. It was Stalin himself shall have it for his ed by a law regarding military es-
for the dead artist he was weep-¡desk.” pionage."
Insofar as Thornton's own admissions were concerned, Gregory was as much a cul- pated authority himself and yet the prosecution was not proceeding with the charges against him.
He alluded to the Prosecutor's
M. Braude concluded by stating that outside the Soviet Union "so | called commissions" were
taken as
a matter of course and that bribes given by Thornton were not in- ducements to wrecking netivities. He appealed that these facts could
be considered in Thornton's favour.
Nordwall's Defence.
Nordwall's counsel, M.
Dal-
ter.
PEAK THEFTS
Servant Gaoled For Six Weeks.
me to apply myself,
You had better:
LOCAL DOLLAR DECLINES.
Pound Rises In New York.
re-doubt about that.
ing, for he was no more superati- "Some day," taunted Krakorin, tious than any of the young ones. the Shockbrigadier, screwing up He continued to stroke the carved his eyes in his golden-skinned The local dollar declired from face, so radiantly visible in the young face, "they will find that 1/3%, yesterday's quotation, to stark daylight-for most of the you are a left-over. A dirty old 1/31⁄2, this morning.
Cathedral had already been des bourjoi who has missed the weed- Silver prices were quoted this(troyed in small piece-meal.
Ing-out. Then your belly will be morning at 17 15/16 spot, and 18, The gelignite went off just then. gin to make empty noises: I be-! forward, a drop of 1/16.
"So," said the G.P.U. policeman leve that, actually, you are as au- Cross rate prices were this morn-who found Senka in the debris half perstitious as hell, Comrade Conk." Ing Hip, an unemployed Chinese G$3.47%, and G88.51%, an hour later, with his fur, coat "Certainly," fawned Senka, grin-
INTERPORT CRICKETER
A VICTIM
matovsky, pointed out that the ad. servant, was this morning senten-for the London on New York, and and the larger part of, his trousers fafng and touching his nose, which
"I was
since it conflicted in regard to the n cigariette case and lighter from CLUB FOR UNKNOWN
New York on London, rates res-gone, it was attempted sabotage was famous for its size. ced to six weeks Imprisonment; serse description by the prosecutor with hard lahour for each of two pectively.
land theft? You were too late. making obeisance in the Cathedral of the chief witnesses against his thefts; one of
The London on New York rate Long ago the State took away the of the Redeemer when the explo a Mah Jong net client discredited their evidence from Mrs. Strahan, the wife of Dr. yesterday was £-G$3.453⁄41⁄2.
gold and the jewels, Comrade Airy: alve blew my trousers off. It has That evidence was further suspect Seguin Strahan, and the other, of
breeches."
Įmade me superstitious for the rest for there was a gaping gash across a souvenir, Comrade Krakorin?"
The policeman spoke satirically, of my life. Will you take this as
sums that they said they had re- Mr. A. C. Beck, of the A. P. c. ceived as a bribe.
The defendant was previously
He explained the transaction in employed by Mr. Beck, the Inter- which Nordwall was alleged to port cricketer, who occupied Mrs. have given a fur coat as a bribe,¦Strahan's
HUSBANDS.
house during her ab-American Idea Spreads
To Britain.
as one which Nordwall had con-sence from the Colony. sidered of no importance and had therefore formed the fact which
accounted for any contradictions in
his statement referring to it.
News In Brief
Не further pointed out that Mr. E. R. Bayless arrived in Hong there was no evidence that the in-Kong by the s.8. President Coolidge formation regarding the Red army on Monday. given by Nordwall, was in any
SOME "FAMOUS WIVES”
London.
Senka's forehead and he had been sick enough for the G.P.U. man to smell the brandy,
He dipped into his bag of paints and glue and cardboard and took out a little figure.
At aight of it, the young ones crowded round, roaring with laugh- ter. It was easily the best so far.
THE HELENA MAY It was Senka himself, his slightly
INSTITUTE.
Mr. George Palmer Putnam, the New Premises Opened.
American publisher, got tired of
being referred to as the husband IMPROVED LIBRARY FACILITIES of Amelia Earhart she who flew
bowed legs clad in tiny trousers from which the seat was missing. Krakorin snatched it, but frowned
-temperedly.
"This is a fraud. No payment for this, bourjol. Why, It has no head! Was your head blown off "The Helena May Institute was too, Comrade Conk?"
way, incriminating, and concluded Mr. W. R. McBain arrived in the the Atlantic alone, So he founded by recommending his acquittal. Colony by the 8.3. President the Unknown Husbands of Famous very much the centre of things 40 The head went wrong," said
Gregory's counsel then rose and Coolidge, on Monday.
Women Club and sought consola- far as the arts and music are con- Senka, grinning fixedly, with his referred to the fact that the charge
tion in the company of other cerned. Lady May and the bene-large pink nose a contrast to his against his client had been drop-
Quarantine restrictions have been eclipsed men. Now the movement factors of the Horena May Instituto pale face. The knife slipped. I ped.
imposed by Chefoc against arrivals has swung to England and several must find pleasure in the growth of had to take off the head that re- from Hong Kong on account of "unknown husbands" have turned the Institute, and ita expansion to sulted. See, I have made another, small-pox.
jup.
Kowloon," said Mr. E. Cock, at the conk and all, Look, I will glue ft It now becomes known that Joss opening of the new premises of the on for you," Collins, of musical comedy fame, Helena May Institute at 168, Boun-
Cushny's Five-Year-Old Loan, The speech by Cushny's counsel,
M. Lidoff, followed. He pointed
out that there were "No papers Members of the Peak Club are has been married for 12 years to dry Street Kowloon yesterday. connected with the trial," and that reminded that the final dance of Lord Robert Innes-Ker.
There was a new ballet at the Mrs. J. R. Wood, president of the Moscow theatre, called, simply, the accusations against Cushny the present season will take place And Sheila Kaye-Smith, the fam- Institute, opened the new premises "Nicholas IL and Henry Ford and were based on Keinov's testimonyjon Friday, April 21, at 8.30 p.m. fous novelist, is the wife of the Rev. in place of Lady Peel, who is still their. Manifestations in the Liqui $5 to the amall loans given by
Mr. Fry, for whom she keeps a confined indoors, from the effects dation of Capital by Revolution." Cushny five years before.
Chan Sang-fook, a hawker, was‡cony Sussex home.
of her illness.
and Senica sweated busily. He He then turned to MacDonald's admitied to the Kwong Wah Hos- Dame Laura Knight, England's In this new building members made fat masks of Moses and and Oleinik's evidence, pointing pital, yesterday, suffering from in-foremost painter who travelled in have at their disposal about 15 Chamberlain, of Rasputin and out that MacDonald had only said juries to his face, caused by his circuses with a clown and his wife rooms, all comfortably furnished. Rockefeller, of Jimthomas and he could "Presume" that Cushny being assaulted by another hawker, to get material for her canvases The library has been enlarged and Genghiz Khan. Together, he and a was collecting information and that who has since been arrested. In the wife of Mr. Harold Knight, now contains many books not hit-scene-painter, named Prock, de Oleinik did not claim to know any-
a portrait painter, whom she mar-herto available.
thing of Cushny's activities, al- Mr. Sato, a Japanese, residing in fried in 1903, though he had been with Cushny, Hennessy Road, Wanchal, was ad- The "unknown. husband” of until he had heard of them from mitted to the Government Civil Ethel M, Dell, the best selling Thornton.
Hospital, yesterday, suffering from novelist who is shy of publicity, is fractured thigh, caused by a fall Lieut-Col, Gerald Savage and has from a height of seven feet.
been ever since 1922.-Reuter.
Counsel then showed that the fact of Cuchny's large acquaintance amongst the Russians was no evi- dence that he was collecting infor: Chan Yuk, 47, - a married Wo mation, There was in particular, man, was yesterday admitted to the no evidence of his collecting military Government Civil Hospital, suffering *-information and In Thornton's state- from injuries to her left, erm, sus- ment he was mentioned as supply-tained when she was knocked down ing political and economic informa- during a stampede of hawkers, tion solely. It was, however, only which occurred on the approach - of natural that he, should be as inter the Police.. ested in the Red army as in every
other aspect of the Soviet Union.
Torning to fact that Cushny had;
*MONKHOUSE'S ADMISSION
SUBMARINES FOR ARGENTINA.
Three Vessels Leave Italian Yards.
Milan.
Three submarines, which have
ROTARY CLUB DINNER.
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signed and built for the stage a glant Orthodox priest with Benka's own nose magnified, to scale, and 'x' vermilion beard in which nearly naked ballet-girls swung, The pro-[ letariat in the auditorium came to Function Arranged For their feet at it. It was almost his
Friday,
masterpiece.
One night Senka stood in the |wings to watch the ballet. He felt Mr. M. F. Key, addressing local Rotarians at their tiffin, held at the very tired and the gash In his fors-
head ached. Young Krakorin had| Gloucester Building, yesterday, stolen his food ticket for a joke, But spoke on "free-lance Journalism, or it was as good as hot soup to watch Iving by one's wits.
little Comrade Liza-she who dan-i Among the guests were Massted under the terrifying mask of 1. E. Smith, of Amgy, D. Frazer and Rasputin, the Starele, which Benka | B., A. Proulx. „NE
had made. That high-boned, Tear-
When it was over Lizaveta bonn- ced from the stage almost into his
An informal dinner will be held ing face, and the awest, alim, reag- refused to answer certain questions; INVOLVED BRIBE ONLY been built for Argentina In the at the Gloucester Building on Fri-suring lega below it, POT during his examination, counsel M. Komodo, counsel for Monks Italian shipping yard of Taranto, day evening, erged that this did not imply guilt house, opened his speech by pointing have left for Buenos Aires, They and that the fact that he could not out that all foreigners in Russia are anchot 950 tons and are NAVAL COMMANDER'S DEATH with Rasputin, swinging by #explain the defects and breakdowns were Interested In the development fitted with all the latest improve-
of machinery would not show, that of the country and that this was no manté, a
he was responsible for vreckage... evidence of espionaj
In conclusion he asked the Court Monkhouse,
not to condemn Cushny in any pare
Hicular in which there was an sle-
quent of doubt
(Continued at foot of next Col
efore leaving, the Argentinian
sed had crews) placed a wreath on the tomb
the "Unknown". Warr
ere given an oficial:
navalę authorities of Tar
the hair in her hand Little Lizz was kind and friendly, for one so young. Bet all the same Senka did
the greasy and ingrafiazi fühe kept for the now ration: One could..
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