THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1986.
HERO OF ARABIA
SEEKS PEACE ·
MAY DWELL IN TINY HEATH COTTAGE
Lawrence of Arabia, now Air- craftman T, E. Shaw, left the Royal | Air Force when his dischargo be camo ollective,
In a letter to a Yorkshireman who served under him in Arabia, ho wrote:
"My time runs out on March 1 and I shall be very sorry. The work passes my time. The Inst
Cubans Rob To Purchase Armaments
∙WAR SUPPLIES IN
FLORIDA
CLEVER PLOT DISCOVERED
twelve years would have been long By LAWRENCE S. HAAS. without it. Yes, I shall be really sorry."
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.. Havana. Attempting to tie up the recent The letter from Bridlington was robberies and hold-ups, such as the received by Mr. T. W. Beaumont, Tooting of the Havana, municipal now foreman in n Dewsbury textile treasury, the Santiago post-office, mill.
| railway robberies, and others, with Mr. Beaumont was a machine-gungster methods of Cuban revolu-
tionlate, a report rendered by gunner in the "Suicide Club," a detachment of twenty-six men, sent army secret service operatives to a to Arabia in 1817 for secret ser special court here, declares that vice work under Lawrence,
proceeds of these and other rob- beries were used to acquire a large amount of armament in the United States to be employed in a Cuban
Lawrence plans to retire to his cottage in Dorset, This is how he describes it in his last letter to Mr.revolution. Beaumont. "It is a cottage in the middle of a great heath of brackon
In a driving blizzard the Earl of Benborough, - Governor-General of Canada, took the salute xe bia colourful bodyguard passed in re- ~~wiow when the sixth and fast-and- sion of Canada's 17th Parliament opened at Ottawa. Lord Bessborough is seen reviewing the guard before reading the speech from the throne.
the report, is now in Miami, The war material, according to
Florida, from where it has not been shipped because the Cuban author- ities learned of its existence. The material is said to consist of 1,500 Winchester rifles, 110 machine guna, 5,000,000 rifle bullets, 2,500 Colt revolvers, a battery of de- mountable mountain artillery, 8,000 bullet-proof vests, 25 anti-aircraft machineguns, 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 Sikorsky plane.
The report involves the opera- tions of two Cubans in New York, one under the name of Jose Velasco, fand another known as "Dr. Jordan"
who, it is said, made large cash deposits in the Chase National Валк.
The army secret service inves. tigators allege that these men treated with a Philadelphia flrm- 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 fall.
The report mentions the name of Jose Luis Pennbet, whose assassina- tion was recently attempted by leaders of the Young Cuba group led by Dr. Antonio Guiterns 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.
POSTMASTER GENERAL'S ENEMIES
THOSE WHO GOT NO STAMPS
is year, and house-tops make for good ski-jumping,la yekre, and house-tops make for good' ski-jumplag.
But on the Florida beaches there is perpetual summer-or so the real estate agents clalu.
CUP-TIE "FANS" unable to gain admission to
IN COURT
CLIMBED TO ROOF TO SEE GAME
HOUSE CEILINGS
BROKEN
the EUROPEAN CHARGED
'men
football field, The 11 charged, and numerous others, were included in that unsuccess- ful crowd, and they concalved the idea of "spectating" from the roof tenement overlooking the field. They mounted to the fourth- storey landing, clambered through
of a
ALLEGED FALSIFICATION OF CLUB ACCOUNTS
Shanghai, Mar. 18.
Police Court
at
a trap door to the rafters, and is expected to last for another two The preliminary struggle, which thence through
- Some of the less sure-foot day, was resumed to-day in H: M
a akylight to the
ed walked on the lathe, with the
Shanghai, when result that in a number of houses Alce. H. Leslie, late accountant of The cagerness of a number of part of the celling came down. On the International Recreation Club, football "fans" to witness the cup the way to the roof two plateglnass arraigned on three counts of tie encounter between Partick windows in a skylight were broken, alleged falsification of the Club's Thistle and Celtic at Firhill Park If any of the glass had fallen accounts. prompted them to climb on to the on the street, said the Fiscal, some and heather. Two rooms, no bod,
roofs of property surrounding the of the throng below would have of more than $22,682, and are in The charges involve a discrepancy no kitchen, and no drains, but a
football field when they could not been seriously injured. spring in the garden and a feeling
Washington,
Kain admission at the of utter peace. I may go there for
gates. The police followed the "fans" respect to alleged falso entries in the a while after my discharge." The Postmaster General, Mr. through the ceilings of dwelling-ferch, and immediately there was of the Club.
When some of them put their feet to their lefty and. unauthorised Balance Sheet, and General Journal Lawrence has spent much time James A. Farley, who handed about houses, the police were called in a scramble. A large number of at Bridlington in charge of n flotilla ($1,000,000 worth of rare postage and 11 men were arrested.
Owing to the serious nature of the the men managed to gain their charges, Mr. Haines, the Magistrate, of R.A.F. target launches.
stamps to his friends and thereby
freedom by reaching the roof of an did not ask Leslie to enter a plea, B. Shaw has written four made enemies of all other stamp Ten of the men appeared before adjoining tenement and scrambling but intimated that he would hear the times to Mr. Benumont since 1931. collectors, has tried to "square" All the letters reveal uncertainty himself with all concerned.
the Magistrate at Maryhill Police through a skylight window. Court charged with committing a One of the men explained to decide whether it should go before caso for the prosecution and then to the futuro. "I shall be! He announced that duplicate breach of the peace on the roof of Ballile M'Lean that it was an ex. rather lost in charge of myself all sheets of the Imperforated stamps a tenement at 102 North Park pensive adventure for him. It a Judge and jury in the Supreme these years." he writes.
that he gave President Roosevelt. Street. They were each fined $1, had cost him his job. A collector has offered Mr. Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary of the while the Magistrate ordered that{ Beaumont £20 for
Balle M'Lenn szid that one of these Interior Harold L. Ickes, his own letters, but although he is a poor children, and a few others would be man he refuses to entertain the printed immediately and put on offer.
general sale.-United Press,
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T.
Court.-United Press.
the 1 ball of the eleventh man, damaging property to such an ex- who failed to appear, be forfeited. tent was a very serious matter. but at the same time they had to
Superintendent M'Caskill ex- It was all
very well being conduct themselves plained that about 15,000 were enthusiastle over a football match, [citizens,
as proper
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