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THE CHINA HAIL, WEBESDAYS JANUARY 27, 1937
ASSASSIN WHOSE NERVE FAILED
More Sensational Confessions In Moscow
Pope's Considerable
Improvement
Vatican City, Today, The health of His Holiness the Pope continues to show im- provement." His heart is TE- ported to be much stronger.
The pains which he has been suffering have considerably. diminished and His Holiness yesterday moved into an arm- chair----Reuter.
NAVACHIN MURDER
OGPU AGENT HELD RESPONSIBLE
FRENCH PAPER'S
CHARGES
Paris. To-day.
The plain accusation that the as- sassination of Dmitri Navachin, the Russian economic expert, in the Bois de Boulogne on Monday, was instigated by political connections in the Soviet, is made by the newspaper "Le Jour."
per
JUDGE ULRICH STOPS
REFERENCE TO
GERMAN CONSUL
GERMANY, CONTINUED TO OCCUPY THE CENTRAL
POSITION IN THE SENSATIONAL MASS TRIAL NOW PRO-
CEEDING AT MOSCOW OF SEVENTEEN FORMER SOVIET
OFFICIALS. AND YESTERDAY'S HIGHLIGHT WAS THE
EFFORT OF THE PROSECUTION TO LINK THIRTY-FIVE
GERMAN SUBJECTS, WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER ARREST IN RUSSIA ON CHARGES OF SABOTAGE AND ESPIONAGE
SINCE LAST NOVEMBER, WITH THE PRESENT GROUP OF
ALLEGED TRAITORS.
The packed court-roum was also treated to a duel of words between the famous Judge Ulrich. who presided at the trial of the British Metró- Vickers engineers, and Vishinsky, one of the ac cased.
Consul at Novo-Sibirsk, and was warned not to give the name Vishinsky had mentioned his relations with the German
or nationality of any foreign representative involved.
"
Sensational évidence WAS He corroborated previous · evi- The revelations made by the pa- given by a German engineer, dence according to which he had
are arousing
considerable Alexander Stein,
when the acted as chauffeur of a car used speculation and public opinion has trial entered on its third day, by the Commissar Molotoff for in- been agitated by some of the theories put forward.
says Reuter.
spection of the Ural mines ini 1933. Calling the murder. a **new Stein. who had been employed: Arnold admitted that he had Kutiepoff case." the paper states as a specialist in the Kusbass coal planned to drive the car over the that no trace of the assailant, who mines. testified that German en-cliff in order to kill Molotoff bat was seen running away from the gineers had tried to enlist his at the last moment his nerve fail- scene of the crime, has been foundļaid in wrecking and springed him-Reuter.
so far.
Navachin was the correspondent
and M. Anatole de Monzie, a for- mer Minister of Finance.
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activities.
APPEAL TO PATRIOTISM
STICKLING MENTIONED
E. H. Stickling. the German engineer, who was sentenced to death in Moscow for alleged sabotage. His sentence WIK later commuted. He is now be ing mentioned in the new mass trial in Moscow.
GENERAL MOTORS CHALLENGE
-REFUSE TO MEET STRIKERS
"GREAT MISTAKE”
-Miss Perkins.
Trial
BREVITIES
Poo Kam Sang was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital suffering] from a factured thigh received when he fell, in trying to evade Jarrest for tree cutting on the hill- {side at Taipo Water Works.
Wong Skui, a woman, died after admission to the.. Kowloon Hos- pital as the result of injuries re- cefred when she fell into a nullah. at Essex Crescent, Kowloon Tong.
The RMS. Empress of Japan is due bere at 9 am on Friday and will berth at Kowloon Wharf. She is due to sail for Manila at 8 p.m. the same day.
The P. and O. ss. Bangalore left Shanghai for this Port yes- terday and is due bere on Friday at six a.m
The 20th annual athletic sports of the Taumati Government School will be held to-morrow on the School ground at King's Park, commencing at noon. At 4 pt. Mrs. M. Richards will present the prizes.
H.K. STUDENTS IN ENGLAND
Opportunities For Local Men
In 1951 a local Committee of the » Washington, To-day.
Victoria League, under the chair- ""They have made a great manship of the Colonial. Secretary, mistake, declared Miss Fran- was formed in Hong Kong and ces Perkins, the Secretary of since that time has investigated Labour, when the General Mo-many cases of students from Hong tors Corporation yesterday Kong proceeding to England who refused to meet striking work-wished to avail themselves of the men who are holding up pro-assistance offered by the League the Moscow duction in its huge factories. in London. The assistance offer
The refusal was intimated by ed is gratuitous, and takes the
"THE COMEDY”
exaggerated for
Loudon, To-day. in Paris of the newspaper "La
Commenting on Republique" and had close rela- They appealed to his patriotism, trial, the Conservative "Morning tions with French politicians. Two he stated, by telling him: "You Post says that history records Mr. Alfred Swan, President of the form of meeting students, finding of his closest friends were the are here to work for Germany and no similar trial consisting of no- Corporation, after Miss Perkins, quarters, advising on educational Minister of Commerce, M. Spinasse, not to help the Bolsheviks.”
thing but a systematic fraud.
who intervened in the dispute by matters and, as far as possible, When he objected he was call- One could not see clearly, the order of Washington, had invited helping in regard to admission to ed a coward and a traitor, and Paper says, whether the purpose him to confer with the Union the Universities. BANK PRESIDENT
finally he was persuaded by the.
of the whole comedy was to attack leaders in Washington to-day.
The League also gives facilities Miss Perkins told pressmen that for visiting places of interest and Germany and Japan, or whether General Motors, by their refusal, generally in bringing students in-] For some years Navachin
official representative of his Is Navachi country at Novo Sibirsk to under the alleged criminality of the cor had failed in their public duty and to contact with English social life. President of a
fendants was Paris, the Trade Bank for Nor-take "anti-activity." He was pro-
home consumption.
had made a great mistake.
The League reports On the thern Europe, but he resigned in mised help if he failed.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt health of students and will, if so The Times" asks whether the yesterday called three conferences desired, act as guardians. 1930 and refused the offer of an
defendants had not received an between labour and business lead- important past in MOSCOW. Ee
The fact that the German ez-offer of clemency.
Otherwise, iters to discuss new legislation of sonal introductions to prominent later became naturalised French.
Students are fumished with per- confessions by Karl Radek, the
The legislation, according to tunity of visiting The Houses of Soviet representatives in the French is attempting to link with the ciates.-Trans-Ocean.
Department of Labour to sub lagh besides attending many large BERLIN COMMENT capital Kehlenoff, who is alleged present trial the thirty-five Ger-L
poena witnesses in enquiring into receptions, dances and parties. The to have been a follower of Trotskymans who have been under arrest
Berlin, To-day. the causes of labour disputes. Moscow in the Soviet since November of
The political aspect of the Mos Renter. was recently recalled to
League will furnish personal re- and, according to the paper, ar-
cow trial is stressed in the Ger- last year.
President Roosevelt, speaking at for the benefit of parents and ports on students under its care After Stein had concluded his man" press, which also points out a press conference, adds Beuter, rested there.
"DANGEROUS"
testimony the court was treated to the conflict which is going on be described Mr. Sloan's refusal to guardians. After Kehlerof's arrest, Nava a spirited clash between Vishin-tween various elements within the treat with his employees. chin must have been regarded as sky, one of the accused men, and Soviet itself.
most unfortunate decision. dangerous by the Soviet, as his Judge Ulrich
CLUB JUNIOR SOCCER XI
FOR NEXT SATURDAY
was a close friend of a Eussian in the evidence, says Reuter, led
"Le Joor" learns that Navachin/gineer, Stickling, was mentioned would be difficult to explain the the question of wages and hours people, and are given the oppor- lawyer named Kehlenoff, one of the to the belief that the prosecution well-known writer, and his asso-Miss Perkins, may empower the Parliament, Hurlingham, and Rare-|
connexions with Russia would have i
enabled him to make revelations
VISHINSKY'S PROTEST.
It cannot be denied, says the "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,' that the trial is a milestone in the
damaging to the Moscow Govern- The Judge refused to allow an-history of Eastern Europe.
meat.
z
Ha
AMERICA AND THE CORONATION
Special Commission Appointed
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of
The report of Mr. A. G. Morkill Joint Secretary for the Committée which concerns itself with stu- dents from Hong Kong and Ma- lays, for the first half of 1936 con- tains the following. other of the accused, Stroileff, to "The entire staging of the trial: The following have been select
"The students as a body are The paper concludes that this give evidence in regard to his re-leads to the conclusion that the led to represent
the Hong Kong pursuing their
studies in their was the sole reason for his death. lations with the German Consul battle for power in the Kremlin Football Club in the Second Divi-usual cheerful way and most
Trong Ocean.
lat Novo Sibirsk. The Consul, has now reached its car. This sion of the Hong Kong Foothall them will make a success of them. alleged the prisoner, had in-suspicion is also confirmed by the League, against the Royal Ulster There is still in spite of propa structed Stroiloff to sabotage the personalities of the accused and Rifles next Saturday on the Chat-ganda, a tendency for half educat coal industry and prevent it com-the text of the indictment.
ham Road ground commencing at ed men to come over before they peting with German coal.
REVOLUTION AT STAKE 2.30 pm: Stephens; Wilson and are qualified to enter a University. After an emphatic protest by
"Far more is at stake than the Krilovsky; Millington, Milne (Cap-It cannot be repeated too often Vishinsky, Judge Ulrich allowed demands of the opposition, since tain) and Shaw; Baltmann, Par-that such men have great dificulty Stroiloff to give evidence but disputed points of practical policyvis, Stone, E Fowler and Leppard, in gaining admission and should warned him not to mention the and not merely the forcible remov-
complete their education up to the name or nationality of the for-al of some functionaries, have been
necessary standard. It is only eign representative involved.
the real issue.
struggle between the Third and fair to point out that of the twoĮ "In fact, liquidation of the epoch Fourth Internationals cannot yet recent cases of students sent down PLOT TO KILL STALIN
of the Bolshevist October Revolu be foreseen.”
from Universities one came 'OFER] Livshitz and Kynazeff, two of tion in 1917 is the matter at stake.
The Nazi organ, "Der Angrif," in defiance of the advice tendered pointed a special commission to the accused, who are both direc-Observers of this internal conflict likewise stresses the difficult situato kim by the Victoria League and represent the United States at the tors of the Soviet Railways, gave cannot fail to remember the fate tion which is now confronting the the other was brought over by his coronation of King George VL evidence to the effect that they of certain outstanding figures in Soviet Government, and states the own headmaster without consult- The commission will include had received 35,000 roubles and the French Revolution, since the opinion that the method offing the League. – Owing to the ac the American Ambassador to Ber other funds from Japanese agents revolutionary leaders of that epoch "mutual physical extermination" tion of the League Committees lin; the famous war-time general, to carry on Trotskyite activities sent each other to the guillotine will in the best resort lead these cases are fewer than they John F. Pershing. and Admiral| In addition to wrecking rail-in similar manner.
to destruction of the entire Soviet used to be.” Eodman-Beuter.
ways they were to assassinate "The ultimate outcome of this | aystem--Trans-Ocean.
The lowl Committee consists of Stalin, as well as M. Posticheff, a
Hon. Colonial Secretary, (Chair- leading official in the Eraine, and
{man). The ⠀⠀ Vice-Chancellor, Uni- Kossior, a member of the Cen-
versity of Hong Kong, (Vine- Itral Committee of the Communist
Chairman). Hon: Secretary for Party.
Chinese "Affairs. The Director of Education. Hou, Mr. S. W. Tz'o,
Washington, To-day.
President Roosevelt has ap-
AIRCRAFT WORKS
Site To Be Changed To Lancashire
Belief to the tension of the trial was provided by Arnold, one of the seventeen defendants, who en- Įtertained the court for three hours The Prime Minister, announced while he recited incidents in his in the Commons that in view of varied career,
London, To-day.
the wider considerations involved
AND MOLOTOFF
Disastrous Fire In
Famed Cremona Theatre Docomble Mr.
Milan, To-day, cause of which is unknown, is es- spector of Purlish Schools. (Edu- Another- famous historic relic, thusted at 3,000,000 Hri
|cation Office). Joint Honorary-
esx to the hearts of lovers of The frames apparently started cretary, (Hong Kong). Mr. 180
art, was totally destroyed in a scattery lofts where thea leaf Taus On, Joint Honorary Betre esterday morning when fira properties were stored, and before tary.
out in the theatre at Cre- the fire brigade could reach the Soch persis as may wish
a city celebrated for its spot the fire bad got a firm holć, zvail themselves of the antistazz
All efforts to
in the case of the proposed new nizezett -Inckory at White Wal- Arnold stated that he had been bruke tham, near Maidenhead, the Minis-Jan American citizen and an actor mons ter for Air was prepared to waive, in Hollywood. He then turz preference from this site and was soldier of fortune and after num taking" immediate steps to and aerous escapades returned to Ens suitable site in Lancashire --Bri-sia and joined the Trotskyite op-walls remain as a blackened shell. ing tish Wireless,
¡position party,
structure was quickly re-wire mavailing
vaskes and only the outer terday
Damage done by the fire, that Oce
hemplize of the League should apply to c
by 2.80 yes- of the Honorary Secretaries, wifhs] ng but smoke a view to obtaining a letter to the Trans-Secretary of the League in Lon-
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