KING AND
Sentenced To Death
VIENNA MURDER
TRIAL
Vienna, To-day. The special court at Wiener Neu-" stadt yesterday passed sentence of death on Schlegel and 'Fleck for the murder of Miss Ingrid Weingreen, the young daughter of the Para- guayan Minister.
The third accused, Stejskal, who
THE CHINA. MAIL, MAY 12, 1937.
QUEEN RETIRE
EARLY
Shooting Affray In Palestine
Jerusalem, To-day.
One Arab was killed in a shoot- ing affray between "Arabs and police near Tiberias yesterday.
Communist leaflets, urging the Arabs to boycott the Coronation celebrations, have been distri- buted at Haifa and elsewhere.- Trans-Ocean.
RETURN
is under 20 years of age and there- OF DIVINE sentenced to death, w cannot be OF
fore, by Austrian
was given a
term of sixteen years imprisonment WIND
in a penitentiary.
The death sentence, by Austrian law, must be carried out within three hours of the time of passing of sentence.:
re-
Miss Weingreen, it will be membered, was killed by revolver shorts while she was driving alone. in her car at night on a deserted road. Trans-Ocean and Reuter
Vienna, Later. Schlegel and Fleck, sentenced to death for the murder of Miss Ingrid Weingreen, were executed
at last night.Trans-Ocean.
8.40
When the rudder jammed, an R.A.F. aeroplane crashed in a field at Cud- ham, Kent, and burst into flames, but Flying Officer W. A. K. Igoe escaped with cuts and burns.
Commissioner
John McMillan has been appointed by General Evangeline Booth to be Chief of the Staff and second-in-command of the international Salvation Army in succession to Com- missioner Henry W. Mapp.
“I Want My Tablets, Mummie !"
TRIP BEGINS
ON FRIDAY
London, To-day.
Prepare For Day Of Festival
Crowds Stationed At Vantage Points Last Night
London, To-day.
While great crowds flocking in front of Buck- inghah Palace were cheering, the King and Queen, after a simple meal, retired early to rest last night in preparation for to-day's great events, and the lights of the Royal apartments were out before 9 o'clock.
At St. James' Palace, the Duke and Duchess of The two Japanese airmen who Gloucester gave an eve of the Coronation dinner
party. Wind,
are
made a record flight in the Asahi Shimbun plane Divine leaving Croydon on the return jour- ney to Tokyo on Friday.
They are not attempting another record but will fly in easy stages, probably taking ten days.
They are carrying personal Coro
nation souvenirs back to Japan. Reuter.
TUKHACHEVSKY IN DISFAVOUR Why Marshal Is Not At Coronation
About fifty guests attended, including all the foreign Royal envoys gathered in London and many members of the British Royal Family, except for the King and Queen, Queen Mary and the Duke of Connaught.
THE AIR MINISTRY STATED AT 9.30 LAST NIGHT THAT THE WEATHER OUTLOOK WAS STILL UNCERTAIN, AND
FORECAST A CHANCE OF THUNDERY WEATHER AND RAIN
EARLY THIS MORNING. AFTER WHICH THE DAY WILL
PROBABLY BE COOL AND CLOUDY WITH FURTHER OCCA-
SIONAL RAIN.
The weather was much bright-King George from Germany is one er yesterday afternoon. The from Herr Hitler consisting of a sun came out and the streets valuable set of porcelain. Trans- dried quickly.
Ocean.
to
Moscow, To-day. Marshal (formerly Prince) Tuk-" hachevsky, who for many years was Marshal Voroshilov's right-hand man in the Commissariat for De-points during the afternoon. fence, has been removed from office and appointed to a minor post.
Coronation sightseers began taken up positions at advantage
The Marshal represented the Soviet at the funeral of King George V and was to be a delegate to the Coronation of King George VI, but he was replaced by Admiral Orloff. General Yegoroff, a former Czarist officer and former Chief of the General Staff, replaced Marshal Tukhachevsky.Reuter.
FAVOURITE SPOT
Hitler's Coronation
Message
Berlin, To-day.
The favourite spot was outside Westminster Abbey under the Herr Hitler has sent a telegram covered gangway beneath the West-to the King on the occasion of the minster Hospital stand on the Coronation stating:
op-
"I beg Your Majesty to accept my posite side of the road.
Two elderly sisters from Bir-and my Government's sincere con- mingham and a septuagenarian gratulations for the Coronation, man with his wife from New-combined with best wishes for the castle, were the first on the spot. continued well-being of Your Ma- They were soon swelled by others,jesty and your Royal House. chiefly women. Many brought "May Your Majesty enjoy a long camp stools on which they hoped to and happy reign for the benefit of snatch a little rest during the night. Great Britain, Ireland, the British Another early newcomer was a lands overseas and India, as well as young Czecho-Slovakian Scout-in the interests of preservation of master, who left home on April 5 the peace of the world,"Reuter, and tramped across Europe en route to the Coronation.
KING'S TRIBUTE TO EMPIRE DEAD
"RED" NAPOLEON
Moscow, To-day. The eminent British medical child- There is considerable speculation specialist who devised. Baby's Own here over the fall of Marshal Tablets based his formula on the Tukhachevsky, known in Soviet cir- knowledge that most of the common cles as the "Red Napoleon." ailments of infancy and early childhood
de- are due to disordered stomach and It is generally believed his bowels.
motion was due to his political am- Therefore the first action of the bitions.
It has been decided that what- Tablets is to gently yet effectively clean the digestive tract.
It is also believed the affair marks ever the weather be to-day, the reduce fever, if present, correct indi- the beginning of intervention by troops will not be cloaked. gestion, colic and 'wind', check diar-the Kremlin in military affairs, rhoea, restore digestive efficiency, allay since the Army had been growing| the pains of teething almost as if by somewhat resentful of civilian in- magic, quiet the nerves by removing
and terference.
Then they
the causes of nervous irritation
The tablets contain absolutely no Trans-Ocean.
INTERCESSION SERVICE
London, To-day.
to the
and
roses
A few hours before his crowning, The Duke and Duchess of Kent the King yesterday paid a tribute led an audience of 3,000 at a ser- to the Empire's dead.
One of the King's equerries drove thus promote health-giving soothing The entire military organisation, vice of intercession for the King sleep in a perfectly natural way, from it is thought, will be placed under and Queen, held at Queen's Hall from Buckingham Palace which the child awakens refreshed, the control of civil Commissars. yesterday.
Abbey late yesterday evening cheerful and ready for a meal.
The Duke said: “We can all see placed a wreath of crimson how the hand of God guided the tied with a ribbon in His Majesty's fore be given to the youngest infant sa Thieves who carried off. a large King and Queen from 1911. I hope own colours of crimson and blue, well as to older children with perfect brass cross from the Communion table the same God will guide and pro-edged with gold, o
the Tomb of safety. They are not a new or un- at St. Lawrence Church, Morden, Sur-tect our new King and Queen." the Unknown Soldier. tried preparation; for over forty years rey, also stole the verger's boots. mothers in many parts of the world w
General Sir Ian Hamilton, in an A card attached was inscribed "To have found them invaluable for the A doctor and an ambulance man appeal for peace, emphasised the the Empire's dead, signed, George treatment of children's health troubles. climbed 80ft to the top of a gas-pro-importance of the Crown to the R.I., Elizabeth R."
ducing plant at a Sheffield steel works
harmful ingredients and may there-
Chemists everywhere sell
BABY'S OWN TABLETS
Mother's Halo and Baby's Friend
to give first aid to a workman over- Empire.. come by fumes.
The Dutch Minister of Defence has ordered four new submarines to be built in Holland,
HITLER'S GIFT.
Berlin, To-day. Among the numerous presents to
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The Abbey was deserted when the equerry placed the wreath on the tomb and few of the waiting crowds outside saw him arrive and depart.
-Reuter.