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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1933.
REICHSTAG
FIRE TRIAL
VERDICTS
THREE BULGARIANS
ACQUITTED.
TO BE ESCORTED TO FRONTIER
Van Der Lubbe Condemned To Death
Berlin, To-day, Chancellor Hitler, and the Prussian Commissioner. Gen- eral Hermann Goering, were yesterday informed of the verdict of the Reichslag
fire trial.
It is learned, from a usually trustworthy source that the ver- dict condemns Van der Lubbe to death and acquits the three Bulgarians on grounds of lack of evidence.
The verdict also acquits Tor- gler on the charge of incendiur- Ism, but it is understood that the Court will hold him for a new trial with other Communista on a charge of high treason.
Upon
Requittal. Dimitroff. Popoff and T'aneff, will be hand- ed to the Prussian political police who will be responsible for their safety until they reach the Ger- man frontier. in view of rum- ours that certain Nazi extrem- ists have proposed that the three Bulgarians be not allowed reach the frontier alive.
It is understood that both Chancellor Itler and Gen- eral Goering have expressed their determination to are the Bulgarians safely out of Germany.
to
It is pointed out that General Goering will be blamed abroad,
for any untoward incident fa
THE CHINA MAIL
NEWFOUNDLAND | To-day's Short Story.
In Reich Trial
DEBT
Exchange Into New Stock
Bere are the principal defendants in the trial at Leipzig, Germany.
which has aroused international in- terext. At top is Ernst Torgler. former Communist leader in the German Reichstag, and below, Ma- rinus Van Der Lubbe, a Dutch painter. who are accused of the plot that resulted in the burning of the Reichstag Building.
TIBETIAN PROBLEM CAUSES CONCERN
consequence of his heated re Ruler Wanted To Succeed
mark to Dimitroff in the course
of the trial. "Wait until we get
you out of the power of this
Court." Reuter.
were
Dalai Lama.
DANGER OF STRIFE
ROYAL ASSENT TO BILL
London, To-day. "
The Newfoundland Bill received
IF A MAN
MIGHT
TARRY
By Sir Max Pemberton,
NEVER walk down. Holborn seemed to my willing imagination to and come to the old houses be the very re-incarnation of that royal assent yesterday, and an offer that stand over against Gray's Kitty who, as I say, was so notorious is made to the holders of various fan but I think of handsome Ben for her beauty just one hundred and Newfoundland obligations to change Calderon and of little Kitty forty years ago. them into the new guaranteed "three per cent. stock, re-payable in whole or in part at per on July 1, 1965, or, at the option of Newfoundland, on or after July 1, 1943, on three months notice being given...
The principal, interest and sink ing fund are guaranteed by British Treasury.
Stock will have
:
the
sinking
on the total nominal amount issued
WES
Mervin that was to have married Beally, for the moment, I forty years ago. him just, about one hundred and tempted to lift my hat to her and to express my sympathy with the
BREWER
What a priceless survival is this beautiful child who had suffered so of the old gabled crookedness-ten- many misfortunes. ments all awry, and little squares · “Kitty" - I 'would have said, "you of glass, speaking of the London of fell in love with a dashing lad for Repys and Bludworth. So they your sins, and when you begged his stood when Charles rode in-so they life of that old madman, George III,
received
1. scurvy were the ornament of the city "with- you fund of one per cent. per annum out the Bars" when Raleigh went to enough. Of course, it was a dle-
execution, and taking the cup
of graceful thing for your Ben to have the first payment being made notack they offered him, remembered taken to the road after he lost al later than July 1, 1938.
another who had gone to the gallows his money at the gaming house in The exchange will be on the basis
before him and drank also he went. St. James's Street. Nevertheless, of £100 of new stock, for every
"As the fellow," said he, "that. my pretty child, he was a gentle- £100 of existing sterling bonds or stocks, or in case of dollar bonds, drinking of St. Giles's bowl as he manly fellow enough, robbed neither went to Tyburn, said that were the widow nor the orphan,. took with the right to make payment in good drink if a man might tarry by money chiefly from the fat profiteers sterling for every 2100 of nominal
it."
of his day and spent it with a lavish | Interling · equivalent at a rate of
£1-U.S.$4.86-2/3.
To be sure, everybody set down these words to Ben Calderon, and if everybody says that he uttered them
Application for exchange must be made not later than July 31, 1934. well, everybody must be right, Excepting for inter-Governmental though some of us who have read advances and securities which are to the old records think differently. be repaid Ih exchange, the offer ap-
Oddly enough, I thought of Ben plies to the whole public debt of not a week ago when upon my way Newfoundland Including those securities which rank 3.8 trusten issued in Britain-British Wireless Service.
GERMAN AND FRENCH RELATIONS
(Continued from Page 1).
The Government had been in Very close with those best ed ол the French
also
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Anna's, Marriage.' by Pauline Smith..
to visit a prosaic solicitor who hand. His arrest, my dear, as you dwells in that garden of legal bliss know, was the unhappy result of a which is but a stone's throw from most unfortunate mistake. Per- Southampton Bow.
ceiving two figures in black cloaks There were the old houses, all upon Finchley Common, he mistook huddled up together and leaning one them for those of the Bishop of Ely
upon another, as though to say and his chaplain, whereas, by dire
contact CHINA BUYING FOUR
STEAMERS.
inform- attitude.
TO SEE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER TO-DAY
Orders Placed With British Firms.
London, To-day,
"how tired we are after all these misfortune they were those of two centuries." And there looking of the Bow Street horse-patrol, but from one of the tiny casements, was recently put upon the Great North Kitty Mervin herself at least, she Road. What happened afterwards]
ļis too and for me to speak of inti- [mately," The tears you shed at the trial; the good things you sent into Newgate for Ben, the poor boy; the The Reichstag fire trial opened
way you fainted when the dread at the Leipzig Supreme Court on
Peking, To-day,
sentence of the law was carried out] September 21. Five men
The local Tibetan community is
—why speak of all this in the year charged with the offence, including seriously concerned over the death
19817 Besides, most beautiful] Van der Lubbe, a Dutch youth, who of the Dalai Lamu which, it is gen-
créature, are you not merely the created a sensation on November erally thought, will lead to wide-
Inquiries and discussions between 22 by exonerating his
ghost of the Kitty of yesterday... fellow-spread strife in Tibet if a proper prisoners.
successor to the late spiritual ruler the various Governments and capi-
The Chinese National Govern and if I were to ascend the crooked tals had been going on and were ment has placed orders for two stairs which led to your sacred "I alone was responsible for set-cannot be found.
now continuing.
vessels ting fire to the Reichstag," he de- It is suggested that the existing}
Swan chamber, might I not discover that with: Messrs. clared, and made an impassioned religious rules should be strictly). Sir John Stated he would see the Hunter, Wigham and Richardson you, like your angelic predecessor in appeal for the trial to be brought to adhered to in the process of select French Foreign Minister in Paris of Wallsend, and for two others that very apartment, are an actress a speedy conclusion, even if
the ing a successor, if the present or possibly to-day. They were in con-with Messrs. Barclay, Curie, of at the King's Theatre in Drury Lane, if it be but a role most Hum- sentence of death were passed an der of things in Tibet is to be pre-stant communication and it was ex-Glasgow.
įtremely important that they should The vessels will be between ble? Even, Kitty, I might find you Throughout the trial, Van der The alternative is, that the Cen-get as closely together as they could 6,000 and 8,000 tons each. ata typewriter, and that would be the end of all things. No, no, my Lubbe's behavious has been pecu-tral Government be asked to send an understanding how the sugges-Reuter. liar, and the question of his mental High Commissioner to Tibet to Government stood in regard to the to a wider international application, will leave the story where it is, but dear, as between you and me, we tions put forward by the German condition was brought up on sever- Jaist in settling the problem.
It is learned that Panshen Lama,policy and requirements of Ger Regarding the Inspection al occasiona.
of for these others, our renders--well. who is staying in Mongolia, is pre- many's neighbours.
armaments, he understood that the they might wish to know something pared to proceed to Nanking early It was impossible to make any[German Government, "as part of more, for indeed, it is a pretty nar- next year to consult the Nanking explicit declaration when conversa-their general scheme, were prepared rative." Government in regard to this mat- tions were being pursued, There to contemplate the establishment of
him.
NANKING PLANES OVERDUE
Failed To Return From Fukien Reconnaisance.
TROOP MOVEMENTS REPORTED
Hangehow, To-day.
served.
ter.-Central News Agency.
was, however, a moment coming international inspection and control I say that this beautiful creature when undoubtedly these different of armaments of all countries, stood at the window just as the inquiries must be gathered to operating periodically and automa- U.S. GOLD FUND INCREASED gether, to see what result they pro- tically.
duced.
(Continued from Page 1).
The disarmament Conference was adjourned so that these inquiries
real Kitty stood so many years ago. If her "thoughts - concerned the| In this respect there had un theatre, then would the coincidence 'doubtedly been [advance · in"-|be most wonderful-for you must public opinion generally.
know that the real Kitty sang in A Franco-Amertean "comprom-might be made, but it was hoped Regarding the League of Nations, the opera of George's day, though ise" agreement has been reached to resume the Conference in Janu- the Foreign Secretary reiterated in a humble capacity, I fear, if not According to further reports whereby France will permit the aty, when statements must be made that British policy was unswerving without notoriety. given by pilots of scouting planes import of 20,000 tons of American as to their results,
ly to stand by and support the Twice a noble lord, Ben Calderon's returning from Northern Fukien apples and pears regardless of Sir John quite agreed they did League. - Whilst they observed the uncle, attempted to have her kid- last night, the rebels appear to at-tariffs and import tax rates, while not want to depart from the system déclarations made in foreign coun napped and failed humiliatingly. Lach importance to the route from the United States will permit of international negotiations in tries indicating i desire for the re- Âu carl, they say, offered to make Sha-Pu to Footing where large France import not more than favour of merely `bilateral discus vision of the League, they had no her his mistress and might have numbers of rebel troops are concen- double the minimum quota of 784, lons. He could not regard, at thin reason to suppose that any definite made her his wife if his cousin, the trating. Pingyuen, in the south-800 gallons of wine.---Reuter. stage, bilateral communications es proposals were being advanced. He Bishop of Ely, had not painted such other than an intermediate or pre- did not know of any.—British Wire- a picture of the hell which awalia. liminary stage which ought to lead leas Service.
earls who marry chorus ladies that the old gentleman laff off drinking and took Instead to his fordship's
eastern corner of Cheklang, appears
to be their immediate objective.
Two Nanking planes which left
RAISING PRICE OF SILVER
for the front yesterday morning to carry out a reconnaisance, had not returned at a late hour last night.
(Continued from Page(1.)
The proclamation will remain in
Their long absence is causing an-force until December 31, 1937, xiety-Central News Agency.
unless repealed or modified, JAPANESE PROBLEM. IN FUKIEN. Evacuation Necessary
The President," after refer- ring to India's ratification of the Agreement, said that he understood that the other na," flons concerned were about to'- act.
Before Bombardment.He believed that adherence
SIGNIFICANT TALK IN
NANKING.
Nanidng, To-day.
Considerable attention is given to
would achieve stability of the silver price and permit the law of |supply and demand to govern.—
Reyter
Sales Restricted.
■ report that Mr. Suma, the newly The London Silver Agreement, appointed Japanese Consul-General formulated by Senator Key Pittma at Nanking, is proceeding to Foos Chaleman of the United Stat chow. Speculation is rife mando Senate Foreign. Relationg, Com-
whether bis visit is, in connection mittes, was the only agreement with the evacuation of Japanses and sulfing
Formosan realdents from the In Conference,
terior of Fukien,
Ba
It is reported that Admiral Chen
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ated to have stressed the
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