FRANCE AND
DISARMAMENT
AMERICAN
MURDERED
DETAILS OF NEW
SCHEME
BY BANDITS AT MACHENG
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Laynox, Oct. 30.
INTERNATIONAL atmosphere has so far encouraged M. Herriot to pursue his daring plan, the verbal summary of which will probably be given verbally at Geneva on November 3.
The London offeinl opinion is silently hopeful that the initiative of the American. Mr. Surman Davis, will lead to an achievement of the formula under which Ger many will be brough; back to the Geneva Conference,
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1932.
BRITAIN AND CHINA
CER, OFFERED FOR NEGOTIATION
SWATOW NOTES
MORE CO-OPERATION ADVOCATED
(THROCON RAUTER'S ADENCY]
LONDON, Oct. 30. SHANGHAI, Oct. 30.
missionary, theMORE effective diplomatic con- American Reverend Bort Nelson who was aular co-operation in China captured by Communist bandits is strongly urged by a special cor
on Olber 5. was murdered a respondent to the Oluerver in an lachrug. Hupeh, on October 23, article on China, not only narrow- Recording to despatches froming the gulf of the two services in Peiping
China itself, but he suggest that Consuls make additional personal contacts, first to English industrial areas, secondly to British Chan
Drive from their usual air in Chiliping district, the brigands holding Nelson occupied Machong after the walls of the city had beenbers of Commerce. Jovelled by an earthquake, and, finding themselves hemmed in by advance Government troops, shot the captive.
SOVIET PREPARED TO SELL RAILWAY
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Tokyo, Oct. 28.
THE question of a non-aggression
pact and economic co-opera- tion between Japan and Russia is reported. to have been discussed at a meeting between M. Troyanovsky and the Japanese Ambassador to Moscow, M. Hirota, who is now home on farlough.
It is, reported that Mr. Hirota, before his departure from Moscow, was informally approached by M. The commercial diplomatic ser Karakhan, who said that the Soviet vice should be reorganised and con-
Government was prepared to enter citrated at Shanghai, while the into negotiations for the sale of the present in the right moment to
Chinese Eastern Railway. Nelson had been employed to bring the Legation to, or nearer,
The meeting between the two Am. tench English during his captivity. Nanking. He suggests in this mat-bassadors was arranged by the
The bandits made abortive deter, either a temporary changery initiative of M. Troynnovsky, Though no German delegatiorands for ransom, including large could be erected on the spacious
A similar report of negotiations $1 11 11 ammunition, grounds of the Consulate General between Japan and Russia on econ- will be at the Disarmament Bazenuupplies of
gramophones, at Shanghai with a Minister resid-
onic lines was given wide publicity medical supplies, meeting at Cioneva on Thursday, pianos, wireless sets and a varietying at the Consul-General's house, throughout the world recently, but
or a suitable house outside in Shanghai which could be leased and a temporary chancery erected nearby.
it is kumwa that Herr von Neurath of other luxuries, will then be at: Gineva în eignet.
tion with the Manchurian Re
It is realised that' a final solu- tion of the disarmament problem hinges on the result of the German cretions, but the Gerinar Governi-
ment's qualified welcome of the plan shites a constructive approach is now being made from both sides of the Geneva frute,
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The Observer anys that the plan is mystifying Paris and the world, The scheme is hard for Germany to accept as it will perpetuate for some years the present relative in feriority of the Trich which it com- tends is a vital cause of Uficulty and danger not to the Frauen-Cier- man question but the complicated Polish question, hat for which a approchement of Gaul and Tow- tou would be effected.
Two More Points,
The official French communiqué adds two points to those announced by M. Herriot yesterday,
The points are the conditions, ơn which France will agree to
generalisation and reduction of
short-term service for all metro- politan and land forces which are: (1.) Provided disarmament is interdependent between land, Ben surd air forces
(2) Provided that nations re- sponsible for etersens territories retain specialised forces,
on
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UNLUCKY MAIDEN
VOYAGE
TIMOCOR REUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, Oct 30.
TO-DAY witnessed the inauspici- ots maiden voyage of His Majesty's Falmouth which WAA recently completed to replace the ill-fated Petersfield and which was due to leave for the Far Fast on November 4. When she was leaving the derk at. Devonport she fouled the wall of the basin and stove in her steru plates
She was redocked for repairs which will take several weeks.
OBITUARY
SIR SYED ALI IMAM
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Patna, Oct. 30.
THE lawyer statesman, Sir Syed Al Imam, died to-day at the nge of sixty-two.
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CATSPAW" FOR
SMUGGLERS
SINGAPORE GANG
BROKEN UP
WILES OF A CLEVER
ORGANISATION
Answering the argument that this would mean that a Ministor would became immersed in Shang hai problems, the correspondent contends it would be a gord thing for a Minister to come inte closer contact with the British munity to Shanghai,
com-
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the varions statements at that time lacked · conftrination of an official nature. Rumours of friction be tween Japan and Russia persisted. The more recent despatches from Moscow and Tokyo, however, have, in general, more than hinted at the approach of a commercial agree.
ment.
RAILWAY CO., CASHIER ROBBED AND MURDERED
MURDERER Arrested in
HONG KONG
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
RUSSIAN RAIL DISASTER
NEWS SUPPRESSED BY
SOVIET GOVERNMENT"
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All 01
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JAPANESE “REDS
SENT TO PRISON
182 COMMUNISTS GIVEN STIFF SENTENCES
THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENOL.]
Tonyo, Oct, 0. SENTENCES ranging from life
imprisonment to, the two years' penal servitude were passed on 162 Communista at the end of a protracted tria! hero. The Cont mamieta were arrested about three months ago, about the time the Lampire WALA distressed by the asansaination of its Premier, The Communists were not implicated in that plot, but in others, some of them against the Emperor's per- so, some against the whole system of government.
LONDON, Oct. 29. NEWS of a disaster to the Black Sea expres on October 16, Swatow, October 23 which was apparently suppressed For some time a small gang has under the orders of the Soviet been in the habit of holding up Government, has just reached Lou- furry boats and robbing the passen don. It is said that ninety persons gora ne they proceeded to the inland were killed in the disaster and that town of Tua Che. Being armed three hundred were injured. The with revolvers they always hand only inkling of the tragedy from their own way. At last the Police Russia is altered by the news from Headquarters were informed and a
Moscow that ቤ station master, tiap set for the pirates. One day signalmas, and three other rail inst week a strong force of armed way officials are being tried at the policemen and detectives in disguise Assizes in a small town eight miles proceeded to Tua Che in two shin- from Moscow in respect
Since the wholesale orrcst of pans. No sooner were they within accident on October 10, which ac suspects in Japan, and the tighten- range when the pirate, believing curred through an express dashing ing of the laws where treason is them to be, ordinary skengers, into a shunting engine to which concerned, the activities of Com- opened a fusilado Arcording to carriages were attached, resulting munists have been suppressed to an
grent extent. plan no response was made to the in the loss of many lives. fire A fierce struggle took place that the newspaper Koelnertage
A message when tho police and pirate saugans Blatt, giving the above particulars!
from Cologne states
were alongside cach other. As one of the casualties, learns from n of the detectives made a dash at the pirate chief. the latter shot him that the first six coaches were over. passenger ca the ill-fated train at point blank range in the stomach, causing an
instantaneous death, tamed after the tremendous im-
pact. Knowing the game was up the reat of the marauders jumped into the water but wero all caught, exe:pt the chief who was shot dead. The pirates who have been operating from an ordinary sampan did not They were daring and enterprising as their field of operations was quita near to this town and in a busy fairway.
The scheme would save the cost TROUBLE IN CHEFOO number more than six or of the Legation and guard at Peiping.
Another alternative scheme would be to house, the Minister in tem porary buildings at Nanking, but this would be more expensive as it would necessitate new buildings to house the staff which would not be nocasary at Shanghai.
SEVERE FIGHTING REPORTED AT LAICHOW
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seven.
PRINCE OPENS NEW
BRIDGE
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Ruany, Oct. 29.
WELL-DRESSED WOMEN
TAKE NOTE OF LATEST FASHIONS
LONDEN, October 1. All well-dressid? women
this autumn, it is understood will ba wearing woodland ог orchard colourings, with woodland fur in THE Prince of Wales flow in his high piled masses around the backs To-day special and impressive privato aeroplane to Worcester, of their heads. Hools are to be homage was paid to the deceased when he opened the new bridge high, stockings beige, hats dark, member of the police force. After and Park and fulfilled several worn well over the right eye, put the funeral ceremonies a huge other public engagements.
ting it out with a spear-sharp parade took place, a hand lending. Referring in his speech to the point. A perky bow, or bow-ends Hunderds of scrolls were carried. unemployment problem, he said the inersiy suggesting
non-existent Besides the friends and relatives question of how to restore the old bow, can balanes the spear point. PEIPING, Oct. 02.' of the deceased, many of the village level of employment and, in the Our representative visiter Mar- gives instances of the unsatisfac. A REPORT has been received from people came out to attend the fune-meantime, how best to care for Jene's of 08, New, Bond Street, W
tions. The police were well repre- those who through no fault of their to day, where the latest designs of sented.
own were out of work, was rarely Mr. Frank Brighten-the designer
of the "Bowler," which hail He congratulated the people of rapid vogue, and of the equally What appeared to be a dastardly Worcester on the local efforts and famous but perhaps more becoming murder was perpetrated last Thurs to give occupation and to provide Boater" were displayed. He is day evening when the cashier of praised recreation for the work now introducing the Little Con the railway company was shot dead less. «
Whito advocating closer British cooperation with Chinn, the cor respondent says this must not be confused with laxness, and hc
tory features. of the administration of the Boxer Indemnity Fund arising from insufficient provision in the agreement for an inspection
and nudit.
He also cites Sir Hope Simpson's work as a sucerasful example of co-operation.
him since," added witness.
Witness said the secopd sccused invited him to go for a ride in the cor They first stopped at the driver's house, 205 Moulmein Road. Witness was taken upstairs were he was told to sit down while the second accused went down.. There wore also some women there.
AN important statement French disarmament plan as it affects Britain was made to Reuter in Paris by a high official closely associated with the preparation of
While he was waiting, the re- the plan. He said there was no
ventio people arrived. He was cause for alarm in Britain na there
found examining a pad on the was no questina/of resuscitating the
table and shortly afterwards was protocol with its compulsory armed With the conviction of three Chi-arrested. resistance for attacked countries, ¦ nese, two of whom are partness Daring the cross-examination of The proposed system of regional in a local diap, a well-organised the third accused by Mr. Elkins, and mutual assistance did not gang of chandu smugglers operat he was referred to a certain letter? mean asking Britain to jom in the ing between China ports and Sin which he received from his brother | Eastern Locarno, nor was Britain | gapore is, alleged to have been bro in Amoy. Reference was made in called on to supply troops to akon up. There had been a third this letter to the Governor of -For standing commeri army to prevent partner but since the time atten- nosa who was going to sell a mo-j aggression.
tion had been centres on the chop tor-nunch, the Long Hai Wan, by by the Singapore Preventive Ser- auction. The letter proceeded: vica he is said to have "discreetly" It is a strongly built launch, with disappeared" and not been scen a speed of 15 to 16 milea
If you since.
think fit you might inform' ma by telegram or send me the money re- quired at the same time. It wid fetch about $10,000. Are you ac cessful in Singapore? Another part of the letter, after referring to certain places in China, said: These places produce opium and give good prospecta."
Similarly, the plán did not affect armies such as Britain's which are kept for colonial service.
Britain is not expected to. Adopt conscription.
Hope of Agreement,
PARIS, Oct. 28. France's willingness to accept a goueral reduction in the period of compulsory military service, was the principal point in the entline of the French Disarmament Plan, announced by M. Herrint, Prime Ministor, in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday.
Acceptance of such a plan was, of course, conditional. One thing upon which France must insist was the dissolution of such bodies as the German Teichswehr, though they were not constituted On a couscription basis.
even
an
The charges against the accused were being in possession of 1,200 tahils of non-Government chandu, valued at 80,030, and being con- cerned in the importing of thandu into the Colony.
Chefoo through a foreign in- formant that there has been heavy fighting at Laichow, where Li Chen Nien is holding out against greater numbers.
Five hundred of Liu's troops are
holding Tsitsa, where a hundred of Ha Fu Chu's cavalry made their appearance. outside the walls.
Lin's troops are carrying out sporadic raids at Laiyang in quest of food and clothes and miscellane- ous requirements.t
Chefoo Remains Quiet:
The Chinese cruiser Hai Cheng is now in the inner harbour, where there are also English, American, and Japanese warships.
In Hong Kong To-Day
SOME RAIN
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER DEPORT,
FORECAST AND HEMARKS, 188UED BY TuS ROYAL OBSERVATORY 31 5.30
P.M., STATED :--
-THE
18 KYPHOON
SITUATED AUOCT 200 MILES SOUTH Or HONG KONG, MOVING WEST OR W.S.W. LOCAL FORECAST: N.E. WINDS, FRESH; CLOUDY, SOME BAIN.
VARIED AIR CARGOES
LONDON, October 7. That the air services are becoming more and more popular for the transport of light goods is illus trated by the diversity of cargoes- being sent abroad from Croydon Airport. We learn those have rang- od from Oil Paintings worth many. thousands of pounds, loaned. to foreign exhibitions, to some pump fittings nrgently required for the Suez Canal. Some wireless valves wore sent by air to the Royal Palace at Bukarest and a motor party, stranded in Africa, were supplied with spares in the decert; also day-old chicks have been rushed to Germany, Russia and Rumania.
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Murder Sensation.
in his office by a young man of
out of his mind.
twenty-four, who robbed the ellice] MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN
of several thousand dollars, the pro- party of his employers.
The murderer is said to be the adopted son of an influential dirce- top of the railway company residing in Sumatra.
Recently the accused returned to Swatow and stayed in a hotel but was tuned out ns he was unable to pay his bill. Although the cashier had refused his repeated re- quests for money the criminal kept on loitering about the places as it bent on mischief,
ENGLAND
LOCAL EXPENDITURES THE BIG ISSUE
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viet" and the
Onion Man" de- signs. In the former, three strips of material are cunningly out and stitched together to give a skull. cap fitting closely to the crown, with a sharp peak coming on the forehead, thus taking away the bare look so noticeable lately. The "Onion Man" rather resembles a tam-o'-shanter, pouched over one
oye,
"At the Shoe' and Leather Fair, to be opened at the Agricultural Hall on October 3, Court shoes with very discreet trimmings will be conspicu- auta. Some are made with hool gripa to save the stockings and
Ruany, Oct. 23. THE campaign in connection with the Municipal Elections next Tuesday to fill vacancies caused by On Thursday evening, however, the retirement in rotation of mem- lessen the strain on the ankles. (as was known afterwards), whenbers of Borough Council in nearly Whilst black shoes predominate, the office was closed for the day,200 cities and towns in England, there are over a hundred different the accused, it is said, went up outside the London County Coun- shades, and some of the smartest to the cashier and murdered himcil area, are actively proceeding. shoes are in two colours. In the JIL gold blood, decamping with Last year Labour and Socialist mannequin parade for leather gar the money. The dead man was candidates suffered a net loss of menta, there will be many designs. dragged to the basement unnoticed, | 202 sents in about 80 of the larger by Helen Chandler, notably a nut- but a young employee since la borraghs and in view of their brown travelling leather coat, open- testified to see the murderer hiding opposition to reduction in local ing down the sides instead of in behind the door during the fatal expenditure, this question is in front; an air woman's suit in sky- evening. When the carlier did not most cases the dominant issus of blus kid and a white kid evening roturn home for dinner, his wife the prosent elections. enquired at the office and a search Local rates have, however, been was made for him. As a result of steadily reduced in the latt five enquirios it was discovered the neyears and the decreas since 1999 cused had gone to Hong Kong the exceeds 11 per cent. The average following day. On Saturday nine rates have fallen in that period detectives accompanied by an em from 12/10 to 11/11. The amount ployee went to Hong Kong und, collected from the whole body of after an extensive search, the aeratepayers in England and Wales cused was found in the Empress in the last financial year was Hotel.
£148,000,000.
eapo. decorated with insertions of silver plated chain mail.
Very long or very large earrings are being worn in the evening. Lady Londonderry and Lady Ravensdale have always favoured this fashion; Miss Dinna Coventry, too, frequently wears them. At n dinner last week the Maharance of Cooch Behar wore huge carrings consisting of a sapphire, almost the size of a shilling from. which dangled a fringe of nine exquisits herds of elephant, buffalo, giraffe, pearla Mrs. Woolf Barnato's ear- |NATIVE MENACE TO and other species in parts of the rings were equally striking, but of country, may be scoffed at in cer- quite a different kind. Each was an una large round plaque of elaborately tain quarters, but it is doubted fact that, in spite of den carved ivory.
BIG GAME
EAST AFRICAN PROBLEM
POISONED ARROWS AND SPRING TRAPS
sely afforested country, a tragedy of animal life no less pitiful than that enacted
on the prairies of considered by the Kenya Land Canada is taking place in parts of Commission-will adopt these dis the Northern Frontier Province bolical traps and commenco des- and coast district of Kenya.
The most deadly method employ tract of land where it has hitherta troying the big game in a vast ed by these native poachers is to roamed more or less undisturbed. set their spring traps with poison- It is not surprising then that set- The principal menace to game in tipped arrows in the game path tiers in East Africa inclined to bas East Africa comes not from the leading to waterholes, and alamused at periodic outeries against highly organised safaris which dur thoug they are of the simplest con- the damage done by law-fying ing the dry season hunt for tro-struction, the poison is so virulent acroplanes and shooting safaris, phics on the well-known Serengeti that no animal, from an elephant while no mention is made of Afri Plains.
in Tanganyika and else to a porcupine, can escape them,
can devices designed to destroy whore, but from the African ne
Ivory Smuggling.
and maim big game in the cruel- tives themselves, who in parts of
lest manner. Kenya, by means of spring traps The extended use of poisoned ar- and poisoned arrows, are respon-row traps has led to legislation de sible for wholesale massacre. signed to prevent the preparation
The weond accused, Teo Kee Chuan pleaded guilty. Mr. C. Wilson, the Criminal District Judge, refer- At the conclusion of the submit- rod to this man as being the "cats. sioas, of counsels for the defence, paw put up by the gang to accept Mr. Elkins said, 'I submit that all the blame. Sentence upon him this shop in New Bridge Road was was deferred for one week for new the headquarters of a very clever fingerprints to be taken as he deni-organisation. When they realised ed four privious convictions. they were caught they put up the Mr. P. H. Elkins conducted the second accused to take the blame. case for the prosecution, while Mr. It was owing to the Department 8. Fung and Mr. W. E. Demuth keeping observation on the first ac- appeared for the first accused, Teo cused that this house in Moulmein The Reichswehr, a sort of mili Kim Lin, and Mr. E. E. C. Thu Road was discovered. There was tury police force, is alleged in cer- raisingham for the third, Ching an interchange of names and motor- tain quarters, to constitute a force Kim Buan.
car numbers the whole way through sufficient to fera a powerful arm The facts, shortly, are that 217 by all persons connected with this of any new German Army.
New Bridge Road was kept under organisation. ... I submit that Recently, & disarmament plan, observation for a few days, as a these moves were made to throw urging the establishment of result of which 205 Moulmein Road dust into the eyes of the revenue international police force, control was raided on Sept, 30 and after | officers,” by the League of arms manufae- an exhaustive search lasting over tura and military budgets, was put two hours the Revenuo officers forward, by French Parliamentary found chandu, & Chinese, the-second members.
necusod, had been sandpapering France's other conditions, an- mahjongg table set in the centre of nounced by M. Herriot, incinde the room throughout the time the international control of arms, in-officers were in the house. This sp. cluding the right of inspection of peared suspicious and the table was national armaments, conclusion of removed. A sinh which was found
As an instance of this the Game regional pacts for mutual assist loose in the foot, was taken out,
Warden has recently called atten~ : ance open to all Europorn coun-¦ and a took full of fresh water was
tion to the foot shares constructer tries, which will provide a colloo revealed. At the bottom of the
The Game Department of Kenya, and distribution of the poison with logs used by the Turkans tive force to suppress aggression,tank was the chandu. The first two
to which the Colony, and in face which surprisingly enough has only tribe, which, after days of torture and a guarantee of security by the accused were arrested, while the
the whole of East Africa, owes a! been known to the Administration with a broken limb, may eventual- United States.
third nocused was detained some It is assumed that M. Herriot's days later.
great debt of gratitude for its for the past few years, and this ly bring a giraffe, a buffalo,or-a eminently aane policy in the pre-¦ fact, considered with the great, rhinoceros to destruction; a offor implies that Germany will bo |
Governor's Launch,
servation of wild life, has repeat quantity of ivory and rhino hom
There are undoubtedly fawor at liberty to introduce corsarip- Teo Kim Lin, the first accused;
edly drawn attention to the poach- which is yearly smuggled across the shooting safaris being fitted, out tion but that unconscripted mili sald be lived at 937, Now Bridge
LONDON, October_ing activities of certain tribes-and-border into Italian Somaliland, this year, perhaps owing to the pro........ Haryor semi-military forces must Road and was the managing part the fine. In 1928 he was arrested Tho Italian salvage stomer the fact that there were nearly live suggests that the deadly substance, vailing lack of money, perhaps be abolished. Such a point is probner of Chop Kiam Lam, dealing again for the sons offence bat he Artiglio arrived at Plymouth yes hundred convictions against na may have been introduced into the partly because it is at last being ably aimed at the various political in soap, carbide and Chinese liquor. absconded,
terday with, the fifth cargo of tives during 1921 for poaching, and Colony from outside, or at any realised that big game hunting * BemissProf Germany, as well as The scoond accused was the driver The accused denied these convic-specie recovered from the wreck of only nine against Europeans tosti- rate distributed with the object of with present-day weapons is no le Reichswehr.
to a man named Kim Bee Bee, ations. Sentcres on him was put the F. & Q. liner Egypt, which fies to the diminution la serious facilitating the taking of these tro- longer a sport in the trus sense of tenant of 21%, Now Bridge Read back for one week for new finger awok off Unliant in 1929. It was posching with the rifle.
phies
I the word; but the general interest- Germany Accepts..
Bhortly after 1 p.m. on Bept. 30, prints to be taken...
only possible to work for two days The idea of natives with bows Yet it is foared that the great in the game. of East Africa, as the second accused came to the The first and third accused were owing to bad weather, during and arrows and primitive traps Wakamba tribe whose rights to evidenced by the thousands of feet house for his employer, but the fined $5,000 each or two years, rigo, which time gold and silver worth not only effectively killing their certain lands between the Masai of films taken of wild life under latter was not in, having gone out rous imprisonment. Bail in the £70,000 was brought up, bringing quarry, but actually going far to Reserve and the Kenya and Ugen- all conditions, is increasing, as the about 10 am. I have never scen sum of 810,000 was fixed in the the total salvaged this year towards the annihilation of great da Railway line are now being desire for mere slaughter it on the
"ovent" of "appeal being lodged.
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BERLIN, Oct. 29, It is learnt officially that Ger- many considers that the French disarmament plan can be made secaptable as a basis of discussion,
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Extremely Strong Caso. His Honour, in finding the.ac- cused guilty, said, "It is an ex- tremely strong case against them. It is one circumstance after an- other and I find them both guilty on both charges I look on the second accused as the entspaw put up to accept all the blame. He is not, however, the big man as all. The first and third accused are big- ger than he is."
Asked if any of the accused had previous convictions Mr. Elkins pointed out that the second accus od had four against him, one of which was for possession of non- Government chandu in 1027. He had been fined $2,000 but Bad paid
ANOTHER HAUL FROM THE EGYPT
£725,000
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