"MYSTERY" OF BUTENKO AFFAIR IDENTITY
Rome, Yesterday.
Following doubts thrown by Moscow on the identity of the man representing himself as M. Theodore Butenko, who fled Bu- charest where he was Soviet charge d'affaires, the newspaper
"Mes- sagero" publishes the facsimile of the card of identity delivered to M. Butenko by the Rumanian Foreign Office on Jan. 4 last.
The paper writes that in view of this document it will henceforth be. impossible to deny the facts.
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It is stated in several newspapers that when he left Bucharest, Botenko had in his possession cuments, a highly compromising nature for the Soviet and had de-
posited these with the public notary
ARMY TAKES OVER FROM POLICE
Bucharest, To-day.
A decree issued by the Minis- try of the Interior says that the task of maintaining public order and security will henceforth be in the sole hands of the military authorities, to whom the police are to be subordinate. ⠀
The police had hitherto been terior itself. Trans-Ocean. controlled by the Ministry of In-
SON BORN TO MRS. MACARTHUR
Manila, To-day. A son was born at 9.30
this morning to Mrs. Douglas Mac- Arthur, wife of the former Chief of Staff of the United States Army, who at
is present
President Quezon's military adviser.
child are both well.
It is reported that mother and
in Rome with instructions to publish Gen. and Mrs. MacArthur were them in case of M. Butenko's dís-married in Washington last year.--
Reuter.
appearance.
SIMILAR RUSE
The papers recall a similar. case to which he is accredited the usual in Paris, where an ex-Soviet diplo-diplomatic card of identity. mat employed the same ruse and is
SEVERED CONNECTION
now
still living unmolested by Soviet He said that a Soviet passport agents in the French capital. would have been valueless for his
M. Butenko told Italian jour-flight. nalists that he was not in posses- M. Butenko said he had severed all Bion of a Soviet passport, since con- connection with Russia and formably with the rules established wanted to be only "historian and by Moscow for its diplomats, pass-author." ports must be surrendered imme- He says he will write a book diately the diplomat receives from describing his experiences in Russia. the Foreign Ministry of the country Trans-Ocean.
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Chinese claim Japanese plane was shot down near Shuikwan on C.H.R..
More raids experienced warm greetings A.A. guns.
Both railways heavily bomb-. ed, machines carrying loads five or six, bombs at a time.- Reuter.
MACAO
CRIME ARRESTS
Macau, To-day,
Working unceasingly since the grue- some discovery of the brutally batter- ed body of Mrs. Artur Pedro Alonco. who was found dead in her residence last Monday morning, the Macao police arrested three Chinese yesterday, who, it is alleged, have confessed being im- plicated in the crime.
The men are Ng On, aged 31, na- tive of Macao,
Sau Fung, aged 32, native of Chung Shan and
Lo Yuet, aged 31, also a native of Chung Shan.
The men fled to Hong Kong im- mediately after the crime, and re- turned to the Portuguese Colony yes- terday morning when they were ap- prehended.
According to the alleged confession of the first accused, the murder was not planned. They intended to rob the deceased of money which she used to keen in a box, from while the first accused being an egr vendor and visiting the deceased frequently, saw. her take money.
When they entered the house the woman started shouting. It was then. that one of the men struck the deceas- ed several blows with a piece of iron piping-Our Own Correspondent.
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Tokyo, To-day...
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