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High Class English Jewellery.
The Chief Constable of Canterbury has introduced a scheme to prevent traffic congestion Pamphlets containing a map of the city with garages and car parks marked, are distributed by policemen to motorists stopping in the city. There is also a message from the Chief Constable pointing out that cars cannot be parked in the streets and that if the instructions in the pamphlet are carried out it will held the police considerably. (Copyright).
PLOT TO KIDNAP CONSULS
Chloroform Found On Arrested Man
PRINCESS LOUISES WATCHDOG DIES
Palace "Sentry Duty" Robert, Princess Louise's sheep- dog, who for years had acted as watchdog at Kensington Palace has died. He was believed to be 18 years old
Robert took duty with the policeMarquess de Portago and
Spanish Royalists arrested patrolling outside the Palace.
French territory state that of chloroform was found on one of the men.
Known to thousands of visitors to Kensington Gardens, he would play there with other dogs, but would never allow them to proach the private path leading to the Palace:
Singapore Raw Rubber
Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Co. have received the following quota- tions in Straits Currency for Raw Rubber:
April/June 22-7% b. down 4. July/Sept. 23-% b. down 14 Oct/Dec. 23% b. down Market: Uncertain.
INDO-CHINA
The Bayonne police, who are in- quiring into the activities of the other
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The chloroform, it is alleged, was- to have been used in kidnapping Spanish Government Consuls in South-West France: The victims would then have been taken into- Nationalist Spain.
The Marquess and three other Spaniards have been charged with breaking the French poison laws. Tubes said to contain deadly virus, which the police discovered among the arrested men's belongings, are- now being examined at-t Institute in Paris.
The Marquess vehemently denied the charges.
TURES OF POISON The three men who were arrested at the same time as the Marquess and who were questioned with him are Jesus Martin, a Spanish Na- tionalist agent who formerly worked.
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Gregorio Arana, 28, both deserters- from the ranks of the Basque Militia during the fighting last year
~ During the questioning the ac- cused men it was stated that the Marquess de Portago arranged for Jesus Martin to hand tubes con- taining deadly virus and a flash of chloroform to Arana and Escoriaza.. These men had agreed to kidnap and, if necessary, to poison certain Spanish Government agents France, it was alleged. One these agents was described as a man- who had shot hundreds of Nation- alist prisoners on the Basque coast.
Arana and Escoriazz ́ were an- xious to obtam the money offered by Martin, but wanted to avoid carry- ing out his instructions, is was
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Martin should hand them the tubes.”