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No. 13978
NOUNORD 1641 一拜歳·號七十月四英港香
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1933.
日三廿月三
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CONCLUDING STAGES OF THE MOSCOW TRIAL
THE VERDICT EXPECTED
GERMAN SYMPATHY
TRIAL RESULT PREDICTION
DONETZ BASIN AFFAIR RECALLED
(Special to "Telograph")
́ ́i l'elegraph,Copyright.
anura
Telegraphle Man Ordinon'. JANG. Received April
Berlin, Apr. 17.
17. 0.43 am.J
The German newspapers are following the Moscow trial with considerable interest and are un- animously sympathetic with the British prisoners.
The trial is considered to be a object of farce, staged with the divorting the attention of the Rus sian people from their own internal problems.
It is recalled that M. Stalin, in the couree of the speech in which be reviewed the results of the Five Year Plan before the Conference of the Central Committee and Cen- tral Control Commission of the Communist Party, at a time when the failure of the collective and State farms could no longer be con- cealed.
TO-MORROW
CLOSING SPEECH FOR PROSECUTION:
M. VISHINSKY ON JUSTICE
MOSCOW, APRIL 16. THE TRIAL OF MESSRS. MONKHOUSE, THORNTON, CUSHNY, MACDONALD, GREGORY AND NORDWALL ON CHARGES OF SABOTAGE, ESPIONAGE AND BRIBERY, IS DRAWING RAPID- LY TO A CLOSE AND THE VERDICT IS EXPECT- ED EITHER ON TUESDAY NIGHT OR EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING.
A typical bridge across the tower reaches of the Lan River, svar which the Chinese forces have now withdrays as the result of the offensive operations;commanded by the Japanese last Monday, Fight-
ing has been proceeding over a 100-mile front.
CHINA MISSION TO AMERICA
MR. SOONG'S PARTY OF EXPERTS
(Specia] to "Telegraph”)
(Telegraph, Cepyright. Telegraphic Mes gee Ordinance, 1894; Iteceived. Apri
To-night's session of the Supreme Court was oc- cupied almost entirely by the closing speech of M. Vishinsky, the Public Prosecutor, who dealt with the political aspects and developments in the case but re- m.) frained from sensationalism.
He declared that the English prisoners were guilty even under English definitions of law.
WARM COMMENTS BY ACCUSED
Shanghai, Apr. 17.
...
ROBBIANO MISSING
FEARED DOWN IN BURMA
HEAVY STORMS REPORTED
Rangoon, Apr. 17.
CHINESE IN RETREAT
WITHDRAW TO BEHIND LAN RIVER
HEAVY LOSSES
(From Our Special.
Correspondent).
(Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphio Alve Mapen Dedinence, 1. Received April 17. 8.35 m.)
Peking, April 17. The fall of Chinwangtao and its occupation by Manchukuo troops is confirmed in reliable foreign
FIGHTING - ROUND PEITAIHO
|HEAVY BOMBARDMENT FROM AIR
Peking. Apr, 17, 10.54 a.m.'
Fighting is reported to be going in the Peitalho and Changli regions:
Japanese aeroplanes arg very active in bombing operations and are thus hastening the Chinese withdrawal, The Chinese appear to be in full retreat. Reuter.
reports, which also state that the CREEKINTERESTUSELE Chinese forces have now with- drawn behind the Lan River at all points, after sanguinary fighting.
The Japanese explain that the offensive campaign was designed to clear a sallent in front of the Grent Wall and neutral observers do not expect an extension of the operations.
YANKEES
WIN AGAIN
GEHRIG. HITS THIRD
HOME RUNIT
́Ū.S. BASEBALL'
If the Japanese consider that the game closing in darkness in the the presence of Chinese troops fourteenth innings, near the Great Wall is a pro-) Some broderful pitching by Lucas voention, they will, it is thought for Cincinnati against St. Louis in Chinese circles, equally con- resulted in the Saints returning a sider the presence of Chinese blank sheet whilst Cincinnati rattl- troops in the Las River region aled up seven rund. provocation.
CHINESE APPREHENSIVE.. Chinese circles are, however, Mr. T. V. Soong, the Minister of Fears are entertained for the considerably more apprehensive!
New York, Apr. 10. Finance, will be given a formal safety of Dr. L. Robbiano, the and point to the Japanese declara-
The feature of the National send-off this afternoon, when local Italian airman, regarding whom tion of thoir intention to stop
between New York and Brooklyn, civic bodies are holding a fare there has been no news since he their advance at the Great Wall, League programme was the tie well party before, the Minister left Calcutta for Victorin Point which has not been observed. leaves for Washington.
at 10.30 p.m, on Friday. Mr. Soong will be accompanied 16 is feared that Dr. Robbiano: to Amerien by a group of experts has been forced down at some They also declared that tests including Mr. Tau Yi-pal, manager remote part of Burma, possibly in He lamented that the remnants of for the defence in the closing had slowed that the turbine did of the Bank of. China, Mr. Arthur the jungle.
Wireless stations have been ac- the nobility, clergy, peasant pro-stages of the hearing of evidence. not equal the guarantee. Therr Young, Advisor to the Ministry.
Mr. Wel Wen-pin, tive in efforts to trace his where- alleged was negligence In correcting blade of Finance, Shukhornchkin. who prietors, officers and police, and the
HEAVY LOSSES. that Thornton bribed him for defects. The Commission noted former Secretary to the Chinese abouts, but neither Akyub, Saigon, intelligentsia of different sorts-
and, wrecking, that all these classes still remained espionage
was that one of the turbines at the Legation in Washington and Mr. Bangkok or Victoria Point are
Hundreds of refugees from the undestroyed.
examined on his political views, Moscow Station was not-supplied Chin Fon, a member of the Na-able to report any sign of him.
tional Economic Counc!l-Reuter. Flying conditions in the area which ended in him stating that by Metropolitan Vickers.
are extremely bad. Since he left Feltalo district are reported to be he had been "working in the
→ | Culcutta, heavy raina, strong coming into Tientsin and Peking. interests of the worker's
winds and severe thunderstorms Chinese reports state that the peasant's enemies."
have been provalent, the usual railway between Chang and
. Important points were scored]
TERRORISTIC MEASURES. They had crept, he declared, into Industrial enterprises and even into the Communist Party, but
and
MONKHOUSE OBJECTS.
not satisfied. If the
Monkhouse, after listening to and had then apologised. above This statement was obtained as the answers, jumped up and sid Vishinsky hoped the court would preliminary to the monsoon. It Peitaho has been damaged by all into the collective and State a result of putting to Shakhornch he was
not fulfilled, pay no attention to plense the would not be surprising. there aerial bombardment, apparently farms; and they were making deskin the distinction between him-guarantees were
off the Chinese troops and prevent perate efforts to upset the Soviet self and Thornton, the later of Arcos ought to have been notified criminals Monkhouse, Cushny and fore, if the aleman had met with an attempt by the Japanese to sut
M. Roguinsky, the Assistant Thornton in regard to their treat-{mishap. system by destroying stores and whom, in desiring concealment of
A Dutch westbound mailplane their retreat, sabotaging machines. Since then defects was said to be working in Public Prosecutor. said they were ment.
yesterday reported thunderstorms
The Chinese adinit losses of over there has been a gathering flood of the interests of his firm.”
not trying the Company but its WORSE THAN THE RUSSIANS. all the way from Medan to Ran-1,300 officers and men killed and employees, to which Monkhouse
wounded in the last few days terrorist measures against alleged "wrockers"; troops have been
warmly replied that most of the| Vishinsky denounced the Russian | Koon.--Beuter,. quartered in blacklisted agricul
nawera were directed against the prisoners, Olleniv and Kutuzova-as
and tural districts to dragoon the in- habitante; demonstrative trail have boon followed by death sen- ves and long terms of impri- sonment; and the Ogpu has enjos ed a free hand to scoot, imprison,
MILITARY INFORMATION,
Another witness, who made
Company not against the among the most detestable of our, accused.
enemien" and said the Russion ne- allegations of a similar kind
Thornton, could only M. Vishinsky then began, his cused were natural sabotageurs, against quote one place where alleged gumming-up, which is expected to but they must not be pardoned al- wrecking was carried out, and last for five hours. when he stated that he supplied Thornton with military informa-
or exile without eveu tha formalition, he admitted, when question-
ty of a trial,
CAPITALISTS BLAMED,
and
n very great deal has gone wrong -they must blame, not the system or the mon at the head of it, but
a mythical army of wreckers of non-proletarian origin encouraged by the wicked capitalists abroad, whose one aim is to prevent Russia
"PRESSED TOO HARD."
MODERNISING SWATOW
of ROAD CONSTRUCTION
ENTERPRISE
HAPPY VALLEY
ACCIDENT
CYCLIST SERIOUSLY
INJURED
Rain again interfered with the programmes, but in the American Lengue, New York wore able to snatch a win from Philadelphia Gehrig hit his third homer.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
K
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Brooklyn
10
3
Now York
10
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(The match was left tied in the 14th innings on necount of the dark- Ntas).
Boston ... Philadelphia
2 5 2
12 I
2
Cincinnatti
St. Louin
Pittsburgh's game at Chicago was abandoned owing to rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
St. Louis
Cleveland
New York
Philadelphia
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Another case of a push-bicyclist
(Gehrig scored a home run for being injured in a collision with a
Now York and Johnson for Philade NEW BUS ROUTES motor-car
the was reported to
[phia). Police yesterday, when a Chinese
The following games were post- was taken to Huspital with rather poned. on account of rain: Boston
Swatow, Apr. 15.
from becoming happy and prosper-he understood "the difference be-smoking, and that he had to sit on ing information regarding, the in process. of being made. Like the Public Works Department. He'
- ous.
1
tween a Soviot citizen carrying out a hard seat ni a trial in Russia. wrecking activities and a foreig
ner doing so," and he replied that
he thought it was trennon in the former case.
"JUSTICE."
THE WEST POINT TRAGEDY
though sabotage hyas being quick- ly stamped out in Russia,
He described the crimes Vishinsky, reading from bulky Monkhouse and Thornton as being; ed, that the information was based
that notes declared; "Our enemies have "too disgusting" and added "They merely on an observation
WOIEN than the Russian troops were travelling in one train tried to press us too hard. I hope are The whole object of all thus inwhile he was travelling in another, the result of the trial will come as prisoners."-Rauter.
a blow to them. We won't allow tensive activity is to persuade the
When Krashetnimikoff was anyone to interfere with our in- ESPIONAGE DEFINITION. unfortunate people that for every
cross-examined, Thornton was Lernal affairs." thing which has gone wrong
The definition of espionage was able to show that all the defects
The capitalist do not like the read, in court by Vishinsky from The Swatow countryside is serious injuries. to which he referred were well-Soviet courts, he added, because it an Engilsh legal dictionary, and being rapidly transformed by the
The mishap occurred in Happy at Washington and Chicago at
|Detroit-Router. known to the management of the is a "class" court. electrical station,
A British member of the House stated we have an exact delini-building of public roads and their Valley, when the cyellst appeared, Some of the roads are already Canal Road and got into the way At one stage, the witness was of Commons, Mr. Patrick, had tion of capionage corresponding to opening to motor bus companies. it is said, unexpectedly from car driven by Mr. Clark, of He pointed out that those neck-bullt: many more are planned and of asked by the prosecution whether aid he was ashamed to ace judges the English definition."
political sentiment of the people the rebuilding of market towns was thrown heavily from the ma- and the widening of streets this jeho and received injuries to the were not guilty of espionage.
He then veered the subject kind of work seems to have come head and leg.
The victim was taken to the "The diforence between ours round to the bribery charges and to stay, and goes on under differ- and the British Courts, according said that Monkhouse could not ex-ent and frequently changing local Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, be
ing later transferred to to Britain, is that theirs are just plain the 3,000 roubles given authorities.
The road from a point across Government Civil Hospital. and ours are not" said the Public Dolgoff to whether it was a gift Prosecutor,
for
the harbour from Swatow, to Swa- Cushny, in evidence, refused, to
Mr. C. M. Patrick, who is the
bus has been often mentioned. It accept the implication of the pro-!
has not become a really effective secution that extensive acquaint-Conservative M.P. for Tavistock,
"Maybe the English engineers modd of transport yet however, It is recalled that when the col-ance among his fellow Russian described in the House of Com
(Continued on Page 7.) lapse of the coalmining Industry engineers was prima facie evidence mons on April 5, a trial he attend think the giving of email presents ed in Moscow when he said the does not constitute bribery in So- in the Donetz Bagin threatened to of guilt.
"court
organ of class viet Russia," gald Vizhinsky, "But was an discredit the Soviet system, the
it is bribery even under English CRUELTY TO SPARROW discovered Ogpu suddenly
THIRD DEGREE.***
law and Monkhouse and Thornton wrecking conspiracy in which they alleged that a number of German
M. Vishinsky: You mean they Vishinsky, continuing his ad- know they can be severely punish-
CHINESÉ SCHOOLBOY engineers and the firms employing
are not telling the truth.
dress, quoted Karl Marx ra sayed for bribery. Bribery is a very
FINED
E. A. Vincont in the Central Police attacked hla 28-year-old concubine them were implicated.
Ing that In the English courts serious crime from the Soviet Cushny: I mean they are per there was ong law for the rich and atandpoint."
Court this morning, that men-in her sleep. He then attacked an another for the poor. "In India," The court rose at 11.25 and will
Sub-Inspector H. E. Rogers dicants sent to the Tung Wah old woman who was coming to the juring themselves.
reaunio at 11 a.m. to-morrow, when brought a Chinese schoolboy be- Hospital for treatment from the first women's assistance, after- "the M. Vishinsky, said, third degree methods are used as counsel for the defence will speak, fore Mr. Schofield this morning at Police Courts, wore never handed wards leaping over the balustrade in the case of
Lieut. Baillie followed by the fast pleas of the the Central Police Court, charged over again to the Police. They of the verandah and falling into.
accused.
The arcosts, and the shunt for which they uro scapegoats in merely an incident, show that the spirit and the tactics of the Soviet
exactly oligarchy remain they were in 1928,
GERMANS' FATE.
what
The German engineers who were tried for sabotage were ordered to leave the country: It is anticipat- ed that the present trial will fol- low the same course.-Reuter..
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PERJURY.
Cushny and the Russians who wore giving evidence against him War." were perjuring themselves.
EXPERTS' ANSWERS.
same
loan.
"SMALL PREESENTS"..
4
TUNG WAH AND MENDICANTS
POLICE OFFICER'S
COMMENT
the
It was revealed by Inspector
MERCHANT DIES OF
INJURIES
Injuries received in a fall from the rat floor of 218, Des Voeux Road Wost, resulted in the death- at the Government Civil Hospital ut 9 o'clock last night of Fung Tae-. yuen, 49, a merchant, who was ad- mitted there early on Saturday morning.
In a fit of insanity, the deceased
On the resumption of the trial at 7.35 p.m. the Court was packed Stewart."
"We have the only true justice in
The vordict is expected on "Tuog. / with cruelty to sparrow, Dofen-wore discharged at the hospital the
is death from internal injuries, plece of rattan to the bird's log he said. A concert by pups of Mr. Frede verflowing. Many of the
Mr. Schofield had before him a including, a a fractured palving oc rick Mason is to be given on Thurs. Spectators wore standing being the world, sald M. Vislinsky, who, day or early Wednesday-Router. dant, it was stated, tied a heavy gates and that was the end of thom,
and swung it in the alr Cathedral Hall. unable to obtain a scat.
continuing, assorted that Monk- day in St. John's
"I did not know what he was mondicant who expressed the wish curred some 24 hours after that of DEFENCE EVIDENCE. : The proceeds, will be devoted to the
swinging at first, until I saw the to have medical treatment and then his concubine who was removed to Cathedral Organ Fund.
Moscow, Apr. 16. bird in Hight. I released the bo sent direct to his country. His Hospital with terrible head in-
Worship cautioned defendant on juries Monkhouse' Indictment of the sparrow."
an"I regard this kind of offence the charge of mendicaney, and ad- cloctrical affect on the trial,
The foreman of the Exporta' house and Thornton had tried to Committes opened the proceedings insult the Court by obeying the
by roading the answers to the orders of the White Paper," but The Royal Observatory reports questions submitted by Mr. Alan had been unable to prove any III- that weak anticyclones are situated Monkhouse, declaring, inter alia, treatment." over the Lower Yangtse Valley and that a piece of metal could
to the east of the Bonins; the do penetrate the protective scroon pression remains to the north-east and wreck a turbine.
| trial as a "frame up" bad; "0" [vory carious matter." remark-vised him to apply direct to the The other woman will be adia.
Monkhouse, had first lied about The routine) of the court was ed his Worship in Imposing a fine Folice on his discharge from charged from Homital" isi
hospital.
coures of the next few days. the length of the Interrogation let by Continued quiPoor 7 alat ten dollar