THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1989.
Rumour Of Senussi Revolt
Spreads Through
MOSLEM HOSTILITY
TO MUSSOLINI
Paris, To-day.
Increasing discontent in Moslem circles in Tripoli
is reported by travellers arriving in Tunisia,
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according to a Havas telegram.
Rumours of a revolt of Senussi, on the Sahara fron- tier, have spread through Tripoli despite offi- cial precautions, and have aroused an under- current of hostility towards the Italian Govern- ment:
CAROL TO VISIT YUGO-SLAVIA
Bucharest, To-day.
King Carol of Rumania will visit Prince Paul, Regent of Yugo-Slavia, in a few days' time. Reuter.
KING TAKES PART IN A.R.P. EXERCISES
London, To-day,
King George VI, staying at Windsor Castle during an air-raid drill practise yesterday, had to take refuge in an air raid shelter while the alarm sirens screamed.
The sham "attack" lasted for 45 minutes.
Travellers also state that a de- cree granting partial Italian na- tionality to all Tripoli Moslems who ask for it, has not met with the expected success, as only a few officials have applied for it.
From Algiers it is reported that Moslems are holding mass meet- ings in almost every town and vil- lage in Algeria, protesting against the Italian invasion of Albania.
Those attending take the oath "to avenge the inault to Islam sooner or later." Reuter.
L.C.C. ELECTS FIRST WOMAN CHAIRMAN
Mrs. E. M. Lowe, former school- teacher of Bermondsey, was elected first woman chairman in L.C.C, his- tory at a recent meeting .. of the Council. She is Socialist member for West Bermondsey, and was de- puty chairman of the Council in 1929.
"sir."
would be a first-class chairman, and not "as a solace to womankind," he added.
Tripoli
Melvyn Douglas, who is appearing with Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young and Fay Bainter in "The Shining Hour," based on the New York stage success. The film starts at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday.
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Lady Cynthia Keeps Me Straight
-Says Her Ex-Burglar Friend
"When I met Lady Cynthia
Mr. Herbert Morrison, leader of the L.C.C., paid a tribute to Mrs. Lowe's 'work for education and for
London, March 24. the corner. He motioned his two the Council. He said that during
room, and her term of office members would A middle-aged A.R.P. worker, daughters out of the address the chair as "Mr.
said: Chair-living in an East London tenement, man,' and would call Mrs. Lowe told me last night he was the "bur-
She had been elected because she glar friend" whom Lady Cynthia was a hardened expert 'screwman. I always worked alone, on big sa• Colville, Lady-in-Waiting to Queen fea. Mary, described at a public meet- ing. He has spent fifteen years in Sir Samuel prison for safe-breaking and other Gluckstein (Municipal Reform) offences. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, deputy chairman of the Council, staying at Windsor Castle 88 Mrs. E. M. Newman (Soc.) was Playing, draughts in the kitchen guests of the King and Queen, elected a county alderman in succes- with his fair-haired daughter, he hall, where I went on an
ployed delegation. Something about joined the Royal Couple in the sion to Mrs. Mary Hamilton, who said: "I first went to prison in her made me tell her my whole cellars. → Trans-Ocean,
has resigned.
South Africa when I was twenty record. She talked to be as to a one. That was for stealing a friend, gave my wife presents, and bicycle.
got her a job when I was sent to penal servitude again.
Two bombs are assumed to have hit the northern and southern ter- race of the Castle and caused 24 imagined casualties.
Mr. R. Coppock (Soć,) was elected vice-chairman, and
Huge Gold Transfers
To United States
New York, To-day.
GOLD imports to the United States in March
"I had gone there in a cattle ship' looking for adventure. [] In prison in
"Once I got as much as £2,000, and spent it in ten weeks mostly, at the races.
"I met Lady Cynthia at a town
unem.
"When I came out I never went
Bloemfontein: I was ordered twelve back again. I never will."
strokes of the cat for a prison offence. It changed my whole life.
"I became a savage, and I met
totalled $365,000,000, the largest since the Czech crooks who taught me the safe
breaking game. crisis in the Autumn, according to the Federal Re-
serve Board.
The total was con
$250,000,000
$27,000,0
$37,000 $8,00
$11.000,0
The United States
tles-have- ||
ing gold imp
post in
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T.B. CASES
No fewer than 55 tuberculosis "If it had not been for Lady cases were reported to the Medical Cynthia I should still be at that Department yesterday, of which 88. game, but for ten years, thank were in Kowloon Other-notiñable God, I have gone straight.", diseases recorded include one of
~^ f. | smallpox, two of diphtheria, ana haired, lean-faced, he strok- typhold, fifteen of messies (ni
his button Kowloon) and two of meningitis,
tly in both in Kowloon.