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WEDNESDAY,
PLOT TRACED?
NAVAL POLICY
FORGED GUILDERS
CLEVER POLICE RUSE TO TRAP GANG.
SCHUSCHNIGG SEEKS FRANCE TO BUILD BIGGER
SHIPS POWERS' ADVICE A polico ruse for the capture of
Paris, Aug, 28. persons suspected of trafficking, in
Vienna, Aug. 28. counterfeit guilders was described It is officially learned that Chan- "I am determined to be a par at the Central Magistracy yester cellor Schuschnigg has collected tiaan of big fleet units," declared day afternoon, when charger of From Nazi prisoners, taken during M. Pietri, Minister of Marino, possession and uttering were pre-the July 25 revolt in which the late when interviewed as to French ferred against Cheng Kam-tong, Ip Chancellor Dollfuss was assassinat naval policies to-day.. Fook, Hul Muk-kam, and a woman, ed, documentary evidence that tho "The foremost item on my pro Yuen Kwal-sang, who was said to putsch was organised by Herr grarume is the building of a sister be the wife of Ip Fook.
Habicht and Frau Enflod-in ship to the battleship. Dunkerque. The latter will be finished in 1937 The prosecuting Police Omoor, Munich. Detective Inspector John Murphy, Habicht, it will be recalled, was and her sister ship in 1938. Baid that eight days ago, two Chi- subsequently discharged from his "I have ordered the complete nese dotectives went to the Luk post in Munich where he had been transformation of three battleships Ho! Tung Hotel, on Connaught in charge of Nazi radio pro- of the Provence class, the first of Road Central, where they occupied paganda In Austria.
which will be ready in a few adjacent rooms.
It is further learned that Chan- months," he declared:
M. Piotri also said he had in. Posing as a third compradore on collar Schuschnigg will probably the 8.8. Tikembang, one of the submit his evidence to the Foreigntroduced a four year plan for, the detectives received Chang Kam Ministries of Britain, France and improvement of the naval air sor tong and Ip Fook when they called Italy. They will decide whether vice and for the construction of a that same evening, and negotiations the evidence should or should not number of subterranean petrol de- were opened for the purchase of bio submitted to the League of Pots, one of which has already been counterfeit Dutch guilders, on the Nations. It is believed.
completed at Ajaccio. He also basis of Hongkong $100 for every It is possible that the matter plans to supply nowy model land 70 guildars,
may be handled aubsequently by batteries to the Algerian
Morocco consta-Reuter. "This is considerably below exprivate negotiations. change," Inspector Murphy come Chancellor Schuschnigg will mented.
probably ask the Longuo "of
The following morning, the same Nations for another international two men, accompanied by the loan on the grounds that suppres woman Yuen Kwal-sang, camo sien of the Nazi putsch was ex- with the guilders, of which a con-tremely costly and wiped out the aidorable quantity was carried by hard-won budget Improvements Chang strapped to his legs and which the Dollfaes administration the remainder by the woman in a had achieved. United Press. cloth parcel.
A jingle of coins on the table was the signal for the other detective to appear from the other room, and all three suspects were then taken into custody.
MAN OF MERCY.
Hitler's Campaign To Win Dissenters,
SOVIET CHARGE
C.E.R. EMPLOYEES PUT TO
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Moscow, Aug. 28. Fifty-four Soviet employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway have bean arrested since August 18, [according to the Tass News
Agency.
Relatives of the arrested men Subsequently, Detective-Sorgeant Shepherd carried out a raid on a
have been kept in a state of an- xiety by stories of inhuman tor- floor at Battery Street, Yaumati,
Berlin, Aug, 28. tures at the police stations, and where all three had been living, together with a third man, Kul Firmly sented in his place of it is alleged that several relatives Muk-kem, who was arrested as the power, Herr Hitler is now about have received parcels of blood- Polleo party were on their way to to commence an energetic cam-stained clothing from the pri Yaumati
paign for the winning over of all soners. After_bearing the evidence, the dissenters to the Nazi pollcy of Tass further states that the pri
soners are coerced Into confessing Magistrate, Mr. Q. A. A. Mac-the Reich, fadyen, found the ovidence insuffi- Der Fuehror is expected to that they acted under orders to clent against Ip Fook, Hui Mak-make two important announce organise raids on trains and sta- kam and Yuen Kwai-sang. All ments at the Nazi Party Con- tione.-Reuter. three were discharged with a warn-gress, which is cominencing atla Ing.
Nuremberg on September 4..
The case against Cheng Kam- In the
first, Hitler will give the Catholic' problem, since quite tong was found to have been details of his plan to win over half of the opposition to Hitler's proved, and upon being informed all elements responsible for the assumption of the Presidency. that the defendant was almost (voto: o£. over 4,000,000 polled came from that section. blind, His-Worship gave him the against him in the formal It is believed that Hitler's. option of a fine of 355, or in de plebiscite of August 20,
second plan will be to announce fault, three months hard labour. It is expected that the plan an amnesty on an even larger Defendant was convicted of pos-will be of a conciliatory nature, scale than that announced before session of the counterfeit coins. and is almost certain to bear on the Plebiscite-Reuter. Special.
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