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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 29, 1941.
GUILLOTINE AT WORK Three Alleged Communists Executed
LAVAL REPORTED Laval Shooting To Begin New "Rigour"
TO HAVE
FOUR WOUNDS
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]
The London "Daily Mail" yesterday claimed to know that the condition of Laval
was "extremely grave." The paper said he was wounded four times, in the liver, chest, throat and
above the heart. International News Service.
HOSPITAL DISPENSER FINED
A 28-year-old dispenser. Leung) Hing-luen, of Queen Mary Hos- pital, was fined $100, or two months' hard labour, by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., to-day, for stealing two packets of medicine, valued at $100, from the hospital dispensary.
Detective Sergeant C. Pope prosecuted.
· A TRIPLE GUILLOTINE in the courtyard of the Sante Prison in Paris yesterday morn- ing ushered in the new "terror“ laws by which the Germans and the French Quislings hope to stem the increasing unrest in France.
It was described by the Vichy news agency last night as the first step "'in the application of laws depressing Communist and Anarchist activities in France."
THREE MEN, DESCRIBED Į The announcer said it was hop- AS COMMUNISTS, WHOSE ed to save Deat's lile but made no NAMES WERE GIVEN AS mention about Laval's condition, ABRAHAM INZEBBRUGHE,¦ which was described earlier in BRIGHE AND BASTARD, WERE] Vichy as "satisfactory" following EXECUTED.
an operation, -- Reuter.
They had been sentenced by a special court and it is emphasised in Vichy that these were the first exécutions to be carried out; under the new laws.
Meanwhile Lyons radio last night reported that the Ver. sailles prefect of police called at the civilian hospital where Laval, with one bullet wound "near his heart" and Deat, who has a perforated stomach and is now running a high tem perature, are receiving treat-
ment.
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Huge swarms. of locusts, ex- tending over an. area. two miles wide and six miles long, have been seen near Mirpurkha from the direction of Jodhpur, accord- ing to a communication received by the Sind Government from the District Magistrate yesterday.
The Director of Agriculture, accompanied by the District Magistrate, has gone to Jodhpur to discuss the question of adopting concerted action to meet
the menace. Reuter.
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DEATH OF CZECH LABOUR LEADER
The death of a Czechoslovak Labour MP. is announced from Czechoslovak circles in London.
He is Robert Klein, leader of the state officials and office employees trade union and he died after two years of imprisonment in the Ger- man concentration camp at Buch- enwald, Klein was 50 years old, --British Wireless.
THE EMPRESS OF ETHIOPIA
The Empress of Abyssinia ar- rived in Nairobi yesterday by special train from Mombasa aud was welcomed by the Crown Prince, who had flown from Addis Ababa for her, arrival, ⠀
The Empress and her son are leaving by air for the Abyssinian capital to-day-Reuter.
HEAVY RAID ON
SUEZ CANAL ZONE
The Suez Canal area was subs jected to another air ruid during Wednesday nightst
The communique In Calro un-
nouncing this says bombs, were
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