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Kathledn
Sally Ellers
man Foster
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21,
1934.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
MUSSOLINI PLOT
GOVERNMENT AND
TEXTILE
HEAVY SENTENCES PASSED
MR RUNCIMAN'S ONE MAN FOUND
POLICY
NOT GUILTY
SPY SCARE IN PRAGUE
“REFUGEES” ALLEGED TO BE AGENTS
MANY ARRESTS
Prague, Mar. 20. A great pro-German espionage organisation with wide ramifica- tions throughout Czecho-Slovakia claimed to have been unearthed
London, Mar. 20.
Rome, Mar. 20. The position created by the The trial of Renato Clanca, breakdown of the Anglo-Japanese Leonardo, Bucciglioni, Claudio textile negotiations was discussed Clanes and Pasqualo : Capasso, it a meeting of the Lancashire charged with conspiracy against Committon with Government leaders in the House of Commons the life of Signor Mussolini, this evening.
concluded before a special by the police. The conference was attended tribunal to-day.
by
Twenty-fre important arrests have been made, and others are
Mr. Walter Runciman, Presi- Capasso was found not guilty. dent of the Board of Trado; Claudio-Glavica WAS found expected to take place as the res Colonel Calville, Secretary of the guilty, but mitigating circumsult of an investigation of docu Department of Overseas Trade, stances were held to exist in his ments discovered in the course of and Dr. L. Burgin, Parliamentary case and the sentence passed police raids, Becrotary to the Board of Trade.
Mr. Runciman was present for ninety minutes.
was seventeen" years* Imprison- mont,
Tho? elder Clanca and An official statement issued later stated that the President Bucciglioni were both sentenced of the Board of Trade gave a full to thirty years' imprisonment. and frank survey of the position' created by the breakdown and answered questions put to him by the Lancashire Committee..
Added excitement has been lent to the affair following, na It does so closely on the heels of the spy scare in France. It is alleged that the German The charges arose from the agents obtained an easy access to abomb in the Czecho-Slovakia by representing explosion of portico of St. Peter's, Rome, in themselves to be Germans who June,1992 and it was alleged that, had been forced to emigrate from It is believed that he indicated inspired by anti-Fascist leaders in the Reich on account of their politi- the line of action contemplated by Paris and London, they were cal opinion. In such a guise, of conspiring to kill Slanor Mussolini their activities have gone on for Government in the event failure to secure an adjustment, with a poison gas bomb which it a long time unsuspected. but the Lancashire Committee un was proposed to explode in the enimously agreed that Mr. Itunci Chamber when the Promier was man's remarks should be treated attending a debate-Router. ∙as strictly confidential.-Reuter.
TALKS GOING ON
London, Mar. 20. The principals concerned 'in the Anglo-French trade talks, Mr. Runciman, Colonel Colville, and Monsieur Lamourcax, met for two hours at the Board of Trade this morning and continued their dia
evening-British cussions this Wircicas.
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SULTAN OF JOHORE IN SHANGHAI
MET BY REPRESENTATIVES OF FOREIGN OFFICE
-Shanghai, Mar. 21. The Bultan Ibrahara of Johore arrived here at seven o'clock this
the morning aboard
boen proved and It is stated that large-scale capionage has that a great many Germans who arrived on the pretext of being rofugees Irom the Nazis wore really sent to obtain information for Germany,-Reuter.
Maru.
He was received by representa- tives of the Wafchiaopu and the Municipal Government of Greater Shanghai, and the British Consul- General.
The Sultan is leaving for Japan Fushimi on Saturday.-Reuter,
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