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TELEGRAPH.THURSDAY,
THIEF CAUGHT Anglo-Turkish
RED-HANDED
"ALL I ASK FOR
IS LENIENCY"
Ho Chi, aged 22, unemployed of before Mr. Canton, appeared gistracy this morning charged with
Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Ma. the theft of a bathing suit, valued 84 Nathan Road, and theft of palm
at $8, from the Drapery Emporium, banch cloth from Lam Shiu-sek, tallor, 834 Nathan Road. The cloth, it was stated he pawned for $3, its value being $4.50...
JUNE 6, 1935.
Anglo-Turkish NORTH CHINA
Trade Pact
AGREEMENT SIGNED
AT ANGORA
London, June 5.
POLICY
İNANKING DETERMINES
ON COURSE
Nanking, June 0.
Mr. Wang Ching-wel, president
The Anglo-Turkish Trade and of the Executive Yuan, denied a Payments agreement was signed report appearing in the foreign
ing exchange
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of ratifications important conferenco, in
Chiang Kai-shek and comes into force provisionally on General Huang Fu will partici
June 20.
Marshat
LON CHANEY LIVES AGAIN IN
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North In the Commons, Colonel Col-pate, will be held at Hankow to LIONEL ATWILL in his GREATEST TRIUMPH!
China, ville, of the Overseas Trade De discuss the situation in partment, said the basis of the
He declared that the Central agreement was that the Turkish The defendant pleaded guilty.
Government undertakes to make Government had decided upon a Inspector Stimson stated that the available, in payment for United policy in dealing with the North
to China situation. Koods exported defendant, with two others, wont Kingdom.
It la learned that the Executive Into the Drapery Emporium and Turkey, 70 per cent, of the sterling naked to be shown bathing suits. resulting from Turkish exports Yuan has already nominated
the United Kingdom, the certain person to replace General When told the price they remarked to
It was too expensive and asked to balance of 30 per cont. being re- Yu Haush-chung as Civil Governor seo blankets on another counter.tained by Turkey to meet charges of Hopei Province. Formal an- While two of them were looking at in respect of freight and other in-nouncement of the appointment is the blankets, the defendant was visible items. Payment in respect expected soon. But, what post seen to return to the former of Turkish exports to this country General Yu Hauch-chung will be counter and take a bathing suit are to be made by Importers into transferred to is not yet known.-
Central Nown. and place it in a rattan basket, a special sterling account.
The Turkish Government, sub- The manager saw
Д and struggle ensued. Sergeant Mattin. Ject to certain exceptions, also son came on the scene and arrested agrees te nllow United Kingdom the Accused. The other two men goods held up by the Turkish Cur- toms to be imported into Turkey made off.
without restrictions, to allow un-
this
Defendant: All 1 nak for is leniency.
SILVER IMPORT REGULATIONS
LICENSING LAW
It was later found that the de-restricted importing of a consider- fendant had palm beach cloth in able range of goods of interest to his possession which he admitted United Kingdom exporters, and to MORGENTHAU AMENDS stealing.
allocate quotna to a further range of United Kingdom goode, All other United Kingdom goods will receive the same treatment, undor the general quota regime in force in Turkey, as is accorded to other countries with which Turkey has clearing agreements.
Twelve weeks' hard.labour was imposed,
NOTED GERMAN OFFICER DIES
His Majesty's Government, on its side, undertakes to reduce the duty on figs and fg cake and not to impose any duty on raw mohair
Washington, June 5. Senator David I. Walsh, Demo- to-day of Massachusetts, crat, introduced a Bill authorising the Treasury to differentiate between monetary and commercial sliver to prevent the price of commercial silver from fluctuating.
Also, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, 10 per Secretary of the Treasury, has
GENERAL ALEXANDER or to increase the exisin valonta amended the regulations licensing
VON LINSINGEN
Berlin, June 5. General Alexander von Linsin- gen, who was famous as the Com- mander of Germany's Southern Army during the Great War, has died at the age of 85 years.
and hazel nuts not in shell the importation of foreign silver British Wireless.
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"What Every Woman Knows" Army in the great drive of 1915 unknown man who bought a rail-
DIES IN RIVER.
CENTRAL FIGURE IN THE MÅLLET MURDER CASE
London, Julia 5.
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COMMONS QUESTION ON CENSORSHIP FEES
London, June 6. Her husband tend-killed L Replying to Mr. A. C. Morcing ),* ́ ̄Mr. ̄ ̄ ̄Anthony the hands of her lover, George (C), (Preston), Porey Stoner, who is in prison Eden, Lord Privy Seal, said that awaiting the hangman's noose, he had no official Information con- Mrs. Alma Ruttenbury, centrul cerning the Chinese proposal to figure in the recent sensational Institute income tax. "Mallet Murder" case, walked Mr. Moreing then drew the
coins.
The amendment which will be- come affective as from August 18 provides that only representative New York Federal Reservo or import Government banks may without licence.
United Stater or However, exempted allver colna may be im- ported without licence but the must show that the Icensee coins are required to fulfil a legi- timate obligation-United Press.
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PARALYSED
Born in Hanover, General von Linsingen entered the Prussian, infantry nà a young man and be- fore the Great War was a divi- sional commander, He command- ed the Second Corps in the Ger man advance towards Brussels in August, 1914, and was then
Tacoma, June 5. transferred to Poland, later tak ing command of the Southern Department of Justice inves- Army, being sent to stiffen the tigutors and State Police are pro- Austrian forces In Galicia. This ceeding on the theory that an captured Stryj and Hallcz. rond tleket in Huntington, Oregon, POWER PLANT MEN
General von Linsingen con- was one of the members of the
ON STRIKE ducted the counter-offensive Karpis gang, allegedly respon- against the Russians in Volhyniasible for the kidnapping of 9-year-
Toledo, Ohio, June 5. for old George Weyerhaeuser, in June, 1916.-Reuter.
Virtual industrial paralysis has whom a ransom of $200,000 was
by the serious paid before the boy was set free, been caused
Chicago's Karpis gang, it ia be-shortage of power here, following lieved, was represented by just the strike of the Electrical Work- this one man in the crime, and heers' Union and the workers of the recruited assistance from among Toledo Edison Company. inen ofthe Tacoma and Seattle underworld.
MONEY LOAN CLAIM
· JUDGMENT GIVEN
Machine-gun posta still guard the highways and all automobiles are being stopped and searched in the hope that one of the wanted gangsters will be apprehended.-
IN ABSENCE The failure to appear before His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor at the Summary the Court this morning caused Young United Preas. down to the banks of the River Government's attention to
high censorship fees, rendering Yick-yat to lose hia, claim for Stour last night.
Late this morning her body was the Import of films unprofitable. $1,500 against Yeung Sai-king. re-alias Henry Walter Sing, as well found floating in the river at particularly at Canton. He Christchurch, a few miles from her questod that representationa home in Manor Road. Bourne-this matter be made to the Chinese la mouth.
Government.
on as judgment given against him in counter-claim for $2,183.41.
FOREIGN SHIPPING
IN BRITAIN.
London June 5. The not tonnage of foreign trade
The
when strike was enlled efforts to settle the wage...con- one after troversy failed, and another the huge factories here were forced to shut down, lacking power.
City officials prediet that over 30,000 industrial workers would be idle before the day was over. Numerous near-by towns are also affected.-Reuter
OCCASIONAL RAIN
Both claims were for money lent. Mr. Eden replied that he un- Giving evidence, Yeung Sai-king Mrs. Rattenbury was charged
A moderate anticyclone covers with Stoner with the murder of derstood that the recent proposal said he lent U.S.$500, which was
to $2,183.41, to shipping arrivals at United King-the Pacific to the south of Japan Francis Rattenbury, her husband, to increase the censorship fees at then equivalent who was brutally killed on March Canton had been abandoned. Mr. Yeung Yick-yat on November 11, dom ports with cargo in April was and another anticyclone has form- Edea added that the present scale 1932 at Brookland, New, York. 3.2 per cent, greater than in April, ed over N.W. China. A depression
moving while arrivals in ballast is
eaut-north-castward 20 with a mallet.
Stoner, who is 19 years of age, of censorship fees did not appear When in America witness hath writ- 1934.
on several oc showed an increase of 2.6 per cent. over S. Manchuria. A shallow was Kattenbury's chauffour. Mrs. to him to call for representations.ten to defendant
casions to demand return of the Departures with cargo were 5.0. depression covers S.W. China and Rattenbury was his mistress.
-Reuter,
loan but did not receive any reply. per cent. greater, but those in Tongking. Local forecast:-South- or variable winds, light to Since his return to Hongkong ballast 1.7 per cent. smaller than a erly
year ago.-British Wireless. moderate; cloudy, occasional rain. witness had not seen defendant.
Mrs. Rattenbury confessed to the murder, but Stoner vehemently
denied that she had committed the woman's handbag referring to crime, admitting that he had hit Stoner. Rattenbury over the hand with the A medical examination of the mallet.
body disclosed six wounds in the Stoner was found guilty and left breast. sentenced to death with a strong Mrs. recommendation for mercy.
London, June 5. Rattenbury was acquitted.
Scathing comments от Mira. The mystery of how Mrs. Rat- Rattenbury was made by the judge tenbury came to be in the neigh- during his summing up of the trial. ] bourhood of the backwater where Referring to her he said:
she was drowned has not yet been
Inquest on Friday
"You cannot possibly bave any solved, but it is understood that feelings except disgust for her, but her companion Miss Riggs, who beware that you do not convict her identified the body at the mor- of this crime because she is an tuary, had not seen Mrs. Ratten- adulteress."--Router.
bury since she left London. Sho knows nothing about her move- ments locally, and no weapon was discovered with which the wounds could have been inflicted, but a River Avon in a lonely spot two sheath of a dagger was found in a miles north of Christchurch.. handbag by the police searching
Five Wounds
I
The body WOB found in the
A cowman said that he saw a the pool.
woman aftting on the river bankĮ
It is understood that
the that Mra
with a knife in her hand. "Bhe post mortem rovonled slipped into the river and I tried Rattenbury died from wounds in to grab her foot but she slipped the chest, several of which peno- through my hand.
"I cannot awim so I held out my
trated the heart.
Letters contained in the hand-
coat and shouted to her to grasp bag are believed to be sensational
it but she threw back her head and will probably be read at the
and she went further out. I saw inquest on Friday-Reuter,
blood coming up from the water,
and, as I was unable to do any-
thing I rushed off to get help."
Stoner's Execution -
The execution of George Stonor
The identity of the body was has been provisionally fixed for established by letters found in the June 18-Reutor.
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