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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 28, 1988.
ANGLO-TURKISH LOAN
AGREEMENT SIGNED: EXTENSIVE CREDITS
London, To-day.
Anglo-Turkish Agreements were signed in London
yesterday.
The agreement embrace the granting of credits to Turkey £16,000,000 of which £10,000,000 is for trade purposes while £6,000,000 is in connec- tion with delivery of armaments, mostly war- ships.
For the latter, special legislation is to be introduced.
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Well-informed quarters regard
of
the arrangements as most desirable considering Turkey's wealth minerals such as iron ore, lead, chromides and coal, for development
“100 MEN AND A GIRL" of which the country requires from
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It is hoped that the first furnace in the new iron works will com- mence to operate in June, 1939.
BREAK IN PRACTICE
SLOVAK TREATY FORGERY ALLEGATIONS
Warsaw, To-day.
The delegation of Slovaks from America now on its way to Slovakia to attend the celebrations in connection with the twentieth It is pointed out that Turkey, in
the anniversary of signing of making the arrangement with Bri-Pittsburgh Treaty, reached Warsaw tain, has broken away from her pre last evening and was given a vious practice of conducting a trade cordial welcome in the Polish barter basis, under which Germany capital. Later they continued used to be the principal beneficiary. their journey to Pressburg. -Reuter.
477 FRAUDS ON
POST OFFICE
Penal Servitude. For No. 389
USED WITS TO ESCAPE FOR FOUR YEARS
In a special statement given to the Polish press, Dr. Hletko, one of the leading members of the de- legation, said that the Pittsburg Treaty had been brought to Europe in order that the Slovak nation and the whole world could convince itself of the fact that this treaty was not a myth or forgery but bore the signature of Dr. Masaryk, who had himself edited the text of the treaty after he had become Presi- dent of the Czech-Slovakian Re- public.
"A FORGERY" Despite this, in a letter to the A man who was alleged to have been responsible for "the greatest Prelate Hlinka, dated October 12, fraud in the history of the Post 1929, Dr. Masaryk had described Office Savings Bank," was senten- the treaty as a forgery. ced at the Old Bailey to three years' penal servitude.
Dr. Hletko recalled the death under mysterious circumstances of the Slovak leader, General
Не was Noel Cameron, 32, a writer, who pleaded guilty to three Stefanik. The aeroplane in which NOT charges each of obtaining £3 by he was flying on May 4, 1919 was
shot down by Czech soldiers. forged documents, and asked that 474 other cases should be taken into consideration.
TRADE MARK
It was suspected at that time that the Czechs had done so inten- tionally because they believed Gen-. eral Stefanik to be in possession of the original copy of the treaty. -
Mr. John Maude, prosecuting had stated that for four years the resources of the Post Office depart
Even now, declared Dr. Hletko, ment concerned and the police had the greatest care had to be taken been employed in trying to catch
to prevent the original treaty from Cameron, who was known only as being stolen. After it had been No. 389. In all, he had obtained shown to Slovak people living in £1,817.
Czecho-Slovakia, it would be taken Det.-Sergt. Barling said that back to America-Trans-Ocean.
Cameron, a native of Hoyland, near Barnsley, was sentenced in March, 1934, to two months' hard labour.
for forgery,, and endeavouring to that will help me," he declared. obtain £8 by means of a forged tele- "In my early days I-hit adversity. gram.
I was guilty of a slip, and coming He had followed no occupation out of prison I felt that all doors since his release from prison in were closed against me. May, 1934, and it was believed that "I thought the police would be from September of that year to the able to trace me in a short time, time of his arrest he had lived by and from that time onwards I was means of the frauds.
lost. I used my wits to escape de- "Shocking Maná Of My Life” tection, and it seems incredible to Cameron said that he had now me that four years have gone by. a mental bath, and was glad to│"I have always feared arrest and evade it, be finished "with the filthy busi- always attempted to
which is no excuse. I have not
ness.
“I have made a shocking mess of found it a lucrative business my life and there is little I can say any means.”
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