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LANDSLIDE IN
SWEDEN 100,000-Ton Fall
Of Rock
VILLAGERS FLEE TO SAFETY
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Geneva.-The hamlet of Silener, in the Cinton of Uri. had a remarkable escape early morning recently when 100.000 tons of the mountain- side thundered down into the valley, missing the village by yards.
night the
chief
Late at forester of the Canton dis- covered that a big section of the mountainside had become detached. He warned the in-1 habitants, and in their night- animals clothes, driving, their
before them, the peasants set out in the darkness in search of safety.
At 2.15 am. there was a big nock fall, and two hours later the greater part of the side of the mountain-the Kleine the Windgalle crashed into valley. The torrent of stone! and earth was arrested within a few yards of the village, but some of the stones and mud fell into the streets.
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As more of the mountain was expected to fall. the following night, the villagers did not re- turn to their homes.
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A proposed meeting between Chancellor Kurt von, Schuschnigg of Austria, 'Herr Hitler of Germany, and Admiral Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary, scheduled for this month, may re- sult in an anti-Red bloc of nations in Central Europe, observers point out Admiral Horthy, who inspired the conference, is said to be a strong foe of Communism and if the tri-partite anti- Communist front becomes a fact it is reported that efforts will be made to persuade Premier Mussolini" of Italy to disinterest himself in the countries of the Danube in return for Spanish ter- ritory: The map shows the nations with, left. Herr Adolph Hitler and Admiral Nicholas Horthy. and right, above, Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg.
LEAGUE AND ANIMALS
Four forms of transport-air. An appeal for the inclusion of a rail, sea and road-will be used by clause for the protection of animals Railway Air Services in conjunc-in the Covenant of the League | tion with a new air service across of Nations is being made by the the Bristol Channel between Car-Royal Society for the Prevention diff and Weston-super-Mare. lof Cruelty of Animals
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MIMIC RAID BY AIRMEN
Reprisal For "Rag” Attack
SMOKE BOMBS ON SQUADRON
Folkestone.
VAN FALLS 30 FEET
Vehicle Crashes Into Wall
LONDON MURDER
HUNT
Police And Laundry Mark Clue
ROBBERY MOTIVE
A widespread police search was being made in London with an recently for a man abnormally large nose and ears! and rearing thick round spec- | tacles.
The police wished to ques- tion him regarding the murder of Mrs. Ada Fortescue, Saageda 50, who was found bound, gag- ged and strangled in her base ment home in Roseford-gar- dens, Shepherd's Bush, late ore | night.
Mrs. Fortescue, it is believed, had been dead for nearly 30 hours before neighbours, whose suspicions had been aroused as they had not seen"her, inform- ed the police.
Police Students' Work Sir Bernard Spilsbury carried out a post-mortem examination. This established that, although the woman had severe head in- Juries, she had died from stran- gulation.
Ever since the discovery a large number of detectives and students from Hendon Police |College, under Superintendent W. Hambrook and Divisional
Detective Inspector Rawlins. had worked ceaselessly; taking statements from people in the jneighbourhood.
Photographic and finger- the print experts searched basement rooms. and articles of crockery, table knives and Forks were tested for finger- prints.
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An accident to a motor van,
House Ransacked which had been used at a flying Mrs. Fortescue acted as land- display at Lynton, Devon, re-lady for the company which During a "rag" attack by one sulted in the death of one man-ministers the estate of which auxiliary air squadron on another and injuries to another last the house forms part It is Hawkinge A.F. serodrome was month.
believed that she was comfort- FB 1461-All My Life The van, which was convey-ably off, and that robbery was clouds of white smoke from smoke-ing apparatus valued at £2,000 the motive for the attack. FB 1460-It's Love Again
from Lynton along the Mine-Every drawer and cupboard The raid was carried out by six head-road on the way to Wes had been ransacked.
Two statements were made to privately-owned machines, which ton-super-Mare, ran down the came from the direction
completely blotted out by thick
bomba last month.
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B. B. G. Orch.
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B. B. C. Orch.
Little Jack Little
of steep Lynmouth Hill, crashed which the police attached con- FB 1425-I Like Bananas
Madame A La Marguise Lympne, where No. 601 County of through a wall and dropped 30siderable importance
Mrs. Emery, whose fiat is FB 1435--Where Am I Londes Auxiliary Squadron was feet into the gardens at the finishing a fortnight's training.
to Mrs. close back of an hotel.
Fortescue's,
I Am A Fugitive From A Jane Gang... Masqueraders. The raiders concentrated their!
described to the police a mán
Carroll Gibbons attack o'n the quarters at The driver was John Blacke, she saw standing near the dead FB 1464-I Don't Want To Make History
and Savoy Orpheons. Hawkinge. occupied by No. 600 aged 26. of London, who was woman's home late the previous
Robins And Roses City of London Auxiliary accompanied by Thomas Young, Squadron, which was in training aged 26, of Newcastle. there. As the bombs were thrown Blacke crashed with the van, was wrapped which overturned, but Young
threw himself out as it descend
overboard the camp in dense white smoke.
When their bombs were all used ca.. the "attackers” flew around, let-1 ting of explosive crackers.
Twice bombs fell into 3 outside the aerodrome,
near cars
draws up to watch the attack, The raid lasted about half an hour. The attack was a reprisal for a Įsimilar kind of “rag” which was carried out at Lympne earlier that week on No. 601 Squadron by machines flown from Hawkinge.
OLD COLLIERY TO CLOSE
WORKMEN'S FALLS IN LONDON
One Killed And One Injured
on
night
You Never Looked So Beautiful
"He appeared to be very FR. 1419-Bambaland nervous and was looking up and FR 1459--You down the street," Mrs. Emery said. "He would not let me see his face, but I pretended to be occupied in opening the front
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I have told the police what] he looked like. He was dress- ed in a raincoat with blue! trousers and a brown trilby hat, and he was wearing large Iglasses with round lenses. His Two men fell 50ft while(nose was very large and broad working on buildings in differ-at the base, and almost seemed ent parts of London theas if it were false. His ears. same day last month. One was too, were very large. He was killed and the other was about 5ft 8in. in height.”
Detectives were ordered to laundries and enquire at: Charles Rawlinson, aged 38 cleaners throughout London of Islington, a married man about a mark on a
pair of with four children, who was trousers which came into the killed by falling from the roof possession of Scotland Yard. of the Turf Club, in Piccadilly:They were of a check pattern. and an attempt appeared to Edward McDermott, aged 45, have been made recently to of Stanhope-place, Red Cross-clean them. The laundry mark streef, Southwark, who fell and number was circulated by from the 5th floor of the new wireless, telephone, and tele- police station at Chelsea.
printer to all police stations.
Parkheld Colliery, Pucklechurch,seriously injured. They were: Bristol. one of the last in the district, is to be closed after hav ing been worked since 1858.
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Four yachtsmen, who barned shirts and zaïls as flares, were re- McDermott was taken to sened by Padstow lifeboat when in hospital suffering from shock danger of being swept on the rocks land injuries to the head. of the north Cornish coast.
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