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PRISON SENTENCE ON EX-COLONEL
Boxer, Bookmaker, Gun-Runner
ASSOCIATED WITH CHINA
The amazing" career of a man who had been an officer in the British Army, boxer, bookmaker and gun-runner, was revealed at London Sessions on April 15. Ac- cording to the police he had been suspected of espionage.
Ho was James Christle 62 a native of Crieff, Perthshire, who was sentenced to 12 months' im- prisonment for obtaining credit by fraud. It was alleged that on two occasions he took furnished rooms In London and gave worthless cheques to landladies for money
due for rent.
London, but it was worthless and she could not cash it.
"Since this case came up,” added the detective, "I have received com- plaints about cheques issued by Christie since 1920. In one case he got £41 from the engineer of the vessel which took him to China."
Christie, giving evidence on his own behalf, said he had been back wards, and forwards to China for 40 years. He came home in 1918 to join "Kitchener's Army." He joined the Marines first and was transferred to the Regular Army.
"I passed through all the differ- It was stated in evidence thatent ranks and became lleutenant- during the war Christie rose to the colonel," he added. rank of colonel, and was officer commanding the 23rd Battalion Highland Light Infantry. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the O.B.E. (Military Divi- sion).
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Mr. Hawke. Yes, if you are not deprived of your rank.
Christie: The first I heard" of of my having been deprived of my rank was when I heard it in the police court.
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Re-examined by Mr. E. W. But- cher, his counsel, Christie said that he had the rank of general in the Chinese army and that he was a major in the Russian army until 1904.
£120,000 DEAL
Mr. Gavin Lawson, "bf Chalfont St. Peter, mineral merchant, who said he had a leence to deal in arms, stated that in 1934 he was acting with Christie in a deal for the export of arms to China. The question of Insurance arose, and held the deal up. Had it gone through, Christie would have made about £60,000,
Mr. Lawson added that at the end of 1936 Christie "was engaged
on another arms deal, which was stopped by his arrest. Had it gone received through he would have. about £1,000.
Sir Herbert Wilberforce, deputy chairman: Who was to pay for the arms?-Col. Christie's clients. They were Chinese names, but İ cannot tell you what they were.
CHINESE RANK AS GENERAL Cross-examined by Mr. Anthony Hawke, prosecuting. Christie said that he had been shipping arms to Were they the Chinese Govern- Abyssinia and, through France. toment?-I understood that they Spain.
were one of the Chinese Govern-
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He was deprived of his rank and
He said he had property in ments. the O.B.E. in 1925, when he was China, and to the best of his know. Mr. Lawson said that he had ar- convicted in China of gun-running. ledge there was £1.750 in his bank-ranged for the supply of arms by After the jury's verdict of guiltying account in Shanghal. He pro- firms in Belgium and Germany. If Det.-sgt. O'Sullivan stated that duced correspondence relating to the deal had gone through the pro- Christle was convicted at the Bri- the purchase of aeroplanes in Eng- fit would have been more than tish police-court at Shanghai-in
land for export to China on com- £120,000. 1925 and sentenced to three months mission. for aiding and abetting the sale of
arms.
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At the same court in February, 1933. he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on each of three counts of larceny.
Mr. Hawke, referring to one case- I put it to you that you were call- ing yourself Col. Christle?-Once a colonel always a colonel.
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MALAYA'S GIFT FOR DEFENCE
London, April 28.
Sir Herbert Wilberforce, sum- ming up, said that he considered' that Christie's profession of export- ing arms to China was a most dis- creditable way of making his living.
Great War, Admiral Hugh Rod- man, and others of the American delegation to the Coronation, sail- ed to-day aboard the President
ASSOCIATE OF SUSPECTS
| FOR THE CORONATION He was in the Royal Marines until 1905, and then went to Hong
New York, Apr. 28. "Kong, where he became a boxer.
General Pershing, the American giving lessons at the Hotel Metro-
The Governor of the Straits commander-in-chief during the pole. He went bankrupt and went Settlements has. reported to the to North China.
Colonial Secretary that the Legis- From 1907 to 1914 he spent moslative Council unanimously adopt of his time in the Malay States, ed "on Monday the motion for the where he practised as a bookmaker gift of approximately £58,000 as Harding. He associated with men suspected contribution towards the cost of General Pershing hea been of espionage and was himself aus Empire Defence. Mr. Ormsby Gore furnished with a. special self- pected.
in informing the House of Com-designed uniform, described as the Before absconding
mons, expressed the Government's most gorgeous ever worn by "an China he obtained a
appreciation of this further ge- American offeer. It cost jewellery from a woman
nerous gift from the Colony, and $600.- At the end of the war he went to of the spirit of co-operation of Reuter. the Malay States and camé under which it was a practical example.- the notice of the police in the sale British Wireless. T of a large consignment of arms.
He was associated with Marshal Chang Tao-lin, and' obtained 5,000
to North quantity of
dollars from Chinese, giving a post-dated cheque, and then be
fied.
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In 1926 he married an American woman at Kinklank, but did not live with her for long. He came back to Shanghai in 1926, where he opened a business. He dis- appeared after passing a number of worthless cheques.
DEPORTED FROM CHINA
LANDING ON
AIRSHIP TRIED
Frankfurt-on-Main," April 28. "Air General Ernst Udet succeed-
INDIAN UNREST
over
Simla. Apr. 28 Casualties suffered by the In- fantry Brigade whelh went into action against hostile tribesmen in
the Khaisora Valley to-day total
killed and wounded.
ed several times in landing on the airship Hindenburg while the lat-22,
ter was in mid-air.
He fastened It is believed the tribesmen sui- his specially constructed aeroplane tered heavily.
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on to the airship, and the idea of The Fakir of Ipi's men attacked the experiments is to see whether a British camp and were severely Nothing more was heard of him! a passenger can be taken off a fly- punished.- until 1929, when it was known that]ing airship at different stages of Reuter he was trafficking in arms in China, her flight. There was a complaint made in 1931 that he obtained $20,000 by fraud, but nothing further was done. He travelled about China until he was arrested in 1933, when he was deported.
In 1935 he came to London and met a woman who was now, his wife. He told her that he had large business interests in China. They
were married at Hendon Register
Office on March 10, 1935.
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FRENCH FIGHTING
PLANES
London, April 88. France has now 1000 fighting
planes for the defence of the coun
try," said the French Air Minister
M. Pierre Cot, in addressing mem-
After they were married they bers of the press after his arrival went to Paris, where he deserted here to-day. He went on to say her after receiving, several sums of that within three years this num- money from her. He gave her aber will be increased to 1500.--- cheque with which to return to Transocean News Servicë.
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BOMBING OF CIVIL POPULATION IN SPAIN DEPLORED
London, April 28.
NO POISON GAS USED IN SPAIN
London, April 28. Mr. Anthony Eden stated in the to-day that House of Commons according to Information received Spanish war, no poisonous gas is from both factions engaged in the
being used in the contact.- Transocean News Service.
DUTCH ROYALTY FOR CORONATION
The Hague, April 28, Princess Jullana and Prince Bernhard will leave here for Eng- land on May 8, to take part in the
A large number of supplement-Coronation celebrations.---- His Majesty's Government deep-ary questions followed Mr. Eden's Transocean News Service.
ly deplore the bombardment of answer, some being inspired by
the other, but all showing 'pro- found horror at the cruelties which the continuation of the civil war is inflicting on numberless innocent Spaniards in the territories of both aldes.
the civilian population in the partisan sympathy for one side or Spanish civil war, wherever it may occur, and whoever may be re- ponsible. They have in the past taken such steps as were operi to them to make their attitude on this subject clear to both parties and to promote agreements to safeguard the civilian population. They will continue to examine whether further steps are possible to prevent the recurrence of such deplorable events.
It by an
Mr. Eden reiterated more than once the regret of the Government their desire to see an end put to at the bombing of civilians and
agreement between the two sides" in Spain, and in this conTM This statement was made in the House of Commons by the Foreign nexlon he was able, in answering Secretary in answer, to a question another question, to inform the by private notice of the Opposition House that both sides had now, on leader. arising out of the reports
the initiative of Ha Majesty's
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use of poison gas as a weapon in cultural centre, and of its nearly total destruction with heavy loss the civil war of life among the civilians.
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Anglo-French Note To Belgian Government
take to guarantee the other states in the new treaty.
London, April 28. Questioned in the House of Com- mona on the negotiations preced- "In view, therefore, of the delay ing on the joint Note to the Bel- experienced in negotiating the new gian government from the British | treaty, it was decided, in order to and French governments, the For- meet the wishes of the Belgian eign Secretary recalled the terms Government, to give effect to their of the Note and proceeded to say | wish to be released in advance that the "preparatory exchange of from their remaining obligations views which had recently been tak- under the Locarno Treaty, and the ing place between the signatories | arrangements of March 19, 1936. I of the Treaty of Locarno, with a view to the negotiation of a new Western European Security Pact, has shown that in any new treaty Belgium would wish not to give guarantees to other states, and four governments that the other concerned in the negotiations would also be prepared to agree that Belgium should not under-
GRANT FOR DUKE OF WINDSOR
Tandon, Apr. 28. It is understood that no recom- mendation for a grant to the Duke of Windsor, was contained in the report of the Select Committee on the Civil List, which concluded its investigations under the chairman- ship of Mr. Neville Chamberlalu. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, recently. '\
It is expected that provisions tor the Royal Household will be along the same lines as in prev. vious reigns, with slight modifica
tions.
The proposal of the nationalisa- tion of the revenues of the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancas- ter. which at present go to the King, have been rejected.
There will be some increase in: the amount of the Civil List" pen- sions granted to persons distin guished in arts and sciencer- Rester.
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should like to add that the present communications in no way affect the obligations of any other coun- try, but Belgium."
In another reply Mr. Eden sald that staff conversations to facllit- ate the Franco-British guarantees to Belgium were not contemplat-
·ed. British Wireless,
NEW BATTLESHIPS
London, April 28." The First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare' ‚announced in the House of Commons to-day that the "three battleships provided for in the building programme of 1937 will be named the "Anson Jellicoe and Beatty. Transocean News Service.
ALLOCATIONS
London, April 26. The First Lord of the Admiralty announced at Commons'..question thime that contracts for the three battleships of the 1937 programie, which will be named the Anson, Jellicoe and. Beatty, were being al- located respectively to John Brown, Clydebank; Swan Hunter and Wig- ham Richardson, Wallsend on the Tyne, with machinery by the Wall- send Supway and Engineering Company, and Fairfield Shipbuild- ing and Engineering Company'.--* British Wireless,
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