HERO OF ARABIA SEEKS PEACE
MAY DWELL IN TINY
HEATH COTTAGE P
Lawrence of Arabia, now Air-
Cubans Rob To Purchase Armaments
craftman T. E. Shaw, left the Royal WAR 'SUPPLIES IN
Air Force when his discharge be came effective.
In
a letter to a Yorkshireman who served under him in Arabia, he wrote:mm
My time runs out on March 1 and I shall be very sorry. The work passes my time. The last
FLORIDA
CLEVER PLOT DISCOVERED
twelve years would have been long By LAWRENCE S. HAAS. without it. Yes, I shall be really, sorry."
Havana, Attempting to tie up the recent
The letter from Bridlington was robberies and hokl-ups, such as the received by Mr. T. W. Beaumont, now foreman in a Dewsbury textile mili.
Mr. Beaumont was a machine- gunner in the "Sufelde Club," a detachment of twenty-six men, sent
looting of the Havana municipal treasury, the Santiago post-office, railway robberies, and others, with gangster methods of Cuban revolu tionists, a report rendored by army secret service operatives to a special court here, declares that
to Arabia in 1917 for secret ser-proceeds of these and other rob vice work under Lawrence.
Lawrence plans to retire to his cottage in Dorset. This Is how he describes it in his last letter to Mr. Beaumont "It In a cottage in the middle of a great heath of bracken
In a driving blissard the Earl of Bessborough, Governor-General of Canada, look the salute as his colourful bodyguard passed in re- view when the aixth and last sea- sion of Canada's 17th Parliament opened at Ottawa, Lord Berborough in awon reviewing the guard befare reading the speech from the throne.
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borles were used to acquire a large amount of armament in the United States to be employed in a Cuban revolution.
The war material, according to the report, is now in Miami, Florida, from where it has not been shipped because the Cuban author- Illes learned of its existence. The material is aald to consist of 1,500 Winchester rifles, 110 machine guns, 5,000,000 rifle bullets, 2,500 | Colt revolvers, n battery of de- mountable mountain artillery, 3,000 bullet-proof vests, 25 anti-aircraft machineguna, 3,000,000 machine- gun bullets, 1,000 hand grenades, 1,000 gas bombs, 14,000 dum-dum bullets, two Curtiss planes, two Douglass planes and one Sikoraky pinne,
The report Involves the opera- tions of two Cubans in New York, one under the name of Jose Velasco, and another known as "Dr. Jordan", who, it is said, made large cash deposits in the Chase National Bank.
The army secret service inves- tigators allege that these men treated with a Philadelphla firm- Rosenberg Brothers-for the ac- quisition of war material, to be consigned to Major Pablo Rod- riguez, in Miami. Rodriguez was chief military aide of Dr. Grau San
Martin and went into exile in Miami at the time of the latter's fats,
The report mentions the name of Jose Luis Pennbet, whose assassina- tion was recently attempted by lenders of the Young Cuba group led by Dr. Antonio Gullerns for alleged treachery to that revolu tionary organisation. Penabet was alleged to have held some of the funds later taken to the United States United Press,
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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1935.
is year, and hours-tops make for good ski-jumping.is years, and' house-tops make for good ski-jumping.
But on the Florida beaches there is perpetual summer or so the real estate agents claim.
CUP-TIE "FANS" unable to gain admission to
IN COURT
CLIMBED TO ROOF TO SEE GAME
BROKEN
the football field. The 11 men others, charged, and numerous were included in that unsuccess- ful crowd, and they conceived the¦ idea of "spectating" from the roof of a tenement overlooking the field. They mounted to the fourth- storey landing, clambered through
EUROPEAN CHARGED
ALLEGED FALSIFICATION OF CLUB ACCOUNTS
Shanghai, Mar. 18.
The preliminary struggle, which a trap door to the rafters, and is expected to last for another two thence through a skylight to the HOUSE CEILINGS me if the less sure-foot days, was resumed to-day in II. M. Police Court nt Shanghai, whon ed walked on the laths, with the
salt that in a number of houses Alec. H. Leslie, Into accountant of Recreation Club, The eagerness of a number of part of the ceiling came down. On the International
three counts of football "fans" to witness the cup the way to the roof two plateglass was arraigned on
of the Club's tie encounter between Partick windows in a skylight were broken, alleged falsification Thistle and Celtic at Firkill Park If any of the glass had fallen accounts. prompted them to climb on to the on the street, said the Fiscal, some
The charges involve a discrepancy roofs of property surrounding the of the throng below would have of more than $22,682, and are in football fick when they could not been seriously injured. Kain admission at the gates, The police followed the "fans" respect to alleged false entries in the unauthorised Balance Sheet, and General Jourani When some of them put their feet to their lofty and The Postmaster General, Mr. through the ceilings of dwelling perch, and immediately there was of the Club. James A. Farley, who handed about houses, the police were called in at Bridlington in charge of a flotilla $1,000,000 worth of rare postage and 11 men were arrested,“ of R.A.F. target nunches,
stamps to his friends and thereby
and heather. Two rooms, no bed. no kitchen, and no drains, bet a spring in the garden and a feeling of utter peace. I may go there for
a while after my discharge."
Lawrence has spent much time
THOSE WHO GOT
NO STAMPS
Washington.
,
a scramble. A large number of Owing to the serious nature of the the men managed to gain their charges, Mr. Haines, the Mugistrato, freedom by reaching the roof of an did not ask Leslie to enter a plea, T. E. Shaw has written four made enemies of all other stamp Ten of the men appeared before adjoining tenement and serumbling but Intimated that he would hear the 1imes to Mr. Beaumont since 1931, collectors, has tried to "square" the Magistrate at Maryhill Police through a skylight window.
case for the prosecution and then All the letters reveal uncertainty himself with all concerned.
Court charged with committing a One of the men explained to decide whether it should go before tis to the future. " shall be He announced that dupliente | breach of the peace on the roof of | Bullite M'Lean that it was an ex- rather lost in charge of myself all sheets of the imperforated stumps a tenement at 102 North Park pensive adventure for him. It Judge and jury in the Suprems these years." he writes,
that he gave President Roosevelt, Strect. They were each fined £1, had cost kim his job.. A collector has offered Mr. Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary of the while the Magistrate ordered that Baillie M'Lean sald that Beaumont £20 for one of these Interior Harold L. lekes, his own the £1 bail of the eleventh man, damaging property to such an ex-but at the same time they had to letters, but although he is a poor children, and a few others would be who failed to appear, be forfeited.tent was a very serious matter. man he refuses to entertain the printed Immediately and put on Superintendent M'Caskill ex-It
all WAR
well being conduct themselves offer.
general sale.United Press.
plained that about 15,000 were enthusiastic over a football match, citizens.
very
Court.-United Press.
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