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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, · FEBRUARY 6,
MANCHUKUO MUTINY MARSEILLES CRIME THREE MEN BEGUILED
SOVIET'S REFUSAL TO SEND SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS | AGED CHINESE PRETENDS TO
BACK TROOPS
Changelium, Feb. 5. Intenso bitterness has been arous- ed here as a result of the refusal of the Soviet authorities to extra- dite the Manchukuo troops whn mutinted on the eastern frontier, northward of Sulfenho on January 31. and which resisted the Japanese and Manchukuo punitive expedition which aubaequently entered Soviet territory where they were disarmed and interned by the Sovint forces. The Soviet contends that the insur-† gents are political refugees, but the Manchukue Foreign Office describes them as murderers, plunderers and kidnappers, and alleges that the Soviet authorities have been foment- Ing dianatisfaction among the Man- chukuo troops, trying to communiso them, and frustrating altempts to demarcate the Soviet-Manchukuo boundary, thus preventing incidents.
Meanwhile the Kwantung army has issued a statement that it pos senses incontrovertible proof that the mutineers had Soviet assistance
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AT TRIAL
Paris, Feb. 5.
Three men who are charged with Implication in the assassination of King Alexander of Jugo-Slavis and the French Foreign Minister, M. Barthou, in 1934, wors ngnin brought before the court to-day. They first were tried in November last, but the trint was no disorderly that the do fending counsel had to be taken out of court, so that the trial was ad journed until now,
When they were brought before the juge to-tiny the men refused to give thofe names or addresses-Renter's Bulletin.
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Case Reviewed
Aix-en-Provence, Feb. G. While triple cordons of mobile guards stood watch outside, three Croatian terrorists filed into the Assizes Court here to-day to stand trial a second time for the aasass- nation of King Alexander of Jugs slavia and the French Foreign Minis- ter Louis Earthau in the streets of Marseilles an October 9, 1934.
Judge Francois Loison in cap and fur-trimmed robes presided and
watched new panel of twelve men from the jury box as the prisoners were marched in, flanked by
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BE FOREST GUARD
Sentences totalling alx wreka' hard labour were paased upon Wong Hon- piu, 52, unemployed, when he ap peared before Mr. Q. A. A. ladyan at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday and Having obtained money by false pre- tences from three men,
WAN
convicted
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It was alleged that defendant pur-, ported to be a Forest Guard and pre tended that he could obtain jobs for the complainants, Lam Koon, Pang Hing and Pang Fuk, from whom he obtained. twenty-cents, alxty-conte and forty-cents respectively, hetween January 31 and 27,
In answer to the charge defendant) admitted that he said that he was Forest Guard, but he pleated that was a mistake. He further stated that the complainants had asked him where they could get a job and the money was given to him no a loan only. Defendant promised to return the money but had been unable to do
Inspector Chester-Woods appeared for the prosecution and stated that defendant first met the second.com- plainant at the Chung Kee ten shed at Po Kong village, and they had a told the conversation. Defendant
u Forent
tier between Manchukuo" and Outer publican guardside whether the complainant that he was
Japaner Patience Exhausted
Peiping, Feb. b. Unless something is done to re- medy the situation along the fron Mongolia, the milltary authorities
The jury must of Japan and Manchukuo will have
accused will be beheaded by the guillo to take decisive steps in dealing with Outer Mongolians, who are charged tine an accomplices of Petrus Kele
men, the actual assassin, who with invading Manchukuo, according in on the spot. Between the first to a Japanese newspaper report.
trial on November 18 and to-day the Until now. the Kwantung Army has been watching developments toll of Kelemen's wild firing was calmly, but the point has been reach-brought to seven by the death of a Pletursed where Manchukuo cannot tolerato policeman wounded in the back after further incidents, One more inci- fourteen months of suffering. den!.
continues the paper, may prompt the Japanese and Manchu kao military authorities, who are Jointly responsible for the defence of Manchukuo, to net in a manner that will effectively provent further chushes. The military authorities in Tokyo are and to be receiving de- talled reports from the Kwa atung Army from time to time on the border situation and are watching developments.Union News.
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Japan and Nanking
Nanking, Feb. f. The slenial made by a Foreign Office spokesman on Wednesday of Foreign Minister Koki Hirota's ns- sertion
Mastro Andre Berthon, armed with hugo dossiers which he has hastily studied during the past two and a half mouths, took up the defence and faced the staff of state prosecutors who, from their perch to the right of the Judge's bench had clashed bitterly with Berthon's predecessor, Maitre Georges Desbona and had seen him disbarred in the first trial for "im- peding justies and employing abusive langunge."
Guard and stated that he could gel sixty-cents; twenty cents for a stamp, job for complainant and asked for ten-cents as forry fare and thirty- conta ns money to join the
Farcat Guards' Club.
The circumstances were similar in the case of the other complainants.
Defendant Arrested
It was not until defendani asked the complainants for $3 to give to the foreman as a present that they. became suspicious and subsequently defendant was arrested.
On resumption of the case in the the complainants gave afternoon evidence.
Lam Koon, stated that he met de- fendant at the tea shed on January 31 about 11-a.m. when they had, a conversation. Witness had become days previous. In the course of the acquainted with defendant about ten conversation defentiant told witness that he
(defendant) was a Forest Guard and was in the position to get witness
a job. Defendant anked Wit twenty-cents and witness gave it to him.
As movie cameraman cranked and news photographers lights dashed the clerk named the accused: Zvonimir Pospichil, Yvan Raitch, and Alio Krall. and read the charges against them The charges are three in number:— 1. Association of criminals for the in his recent Diet address
purpose of committing crimes against that Chins has approved his three-persons or property; Kralj, Raitch point programin for adjustment of and Porpichil and also the terrorist Sino-Japanese relations was meant
gung lender Ante Pavelitch and his On February 3 witness again met purely for domestic consumption, it
Heutenant Eugene Kvaternik, who are
defendant who asked for $3. Wit was stated here to-day in reliable
in prison in Turin;
ness's suspicions were aroused and quarters.
2. Accessories to the killing by so he told defendant that he had no The real position of the Nanking Kelemen of King Alexander and Money, and when he met a constable Government is said to be that it has homiefly against General George that the twenty cents were not given
Barthou and attempted voluntary he had defendant arrested.
At this stage defendant alleged no intention of categorically deny- ing its approval of the three-point (who
by witness, but by his (complain- programme but wishes the Japanese wounds.); and
ant's) younger sister, who wanted to Government to
concrete advance proposals for effecting the pro-
find work as a pig-wash carrier,
Further evidence was then given by the
other fling and Pacted to give evidence Complainants, Pang
gramme.
of Unian Mower.
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дя recovered from his
3. Use of false passporta. The first and second counts carry a death sentence and the third a term: of 20 years.
In putting its case against the three
members of the oustaches terrorist) band the prosecution will trace their movements from the time, Inte in September, when they left the
Defendant
he used to be an and alleged that olive hawker and when he lost his licence he took to supplying shops with olives and came to know the
It is understood that Consul-Gen- eral Y. Sumu will avoid any steps that might place the Nanking Gor- erament in a predicament. He will adopt an attitude of waiting, assist Ing the Chinese authorities in every Croatian refugee camp Janka Pitza way, however, to facilitate execution in Hungary, to the time they were complainants. Witness became sick the three-point programme.rounded up after the assassination, and so approached them for a loan
and They agreed
the Raitch and Posplchil at Thonon and of money. Kralj in the Fontainebleau forest. money was paid on various dates.
The stato will tell how the three, Defendant was convleted on all Shanghal, Feb. b. over whom Dr. Pavelitch had the three charges and was sentenced to
of life and death, were
two weeks' hard labour on each con- The Tokyo War Ofice is holding power a conference on its polley towards designated to help the experienced secutively. On sentencing the man China, at which the various mill-killer Kelemen carry out the plot and his Worship said, "I will make tary offlew in China are represent- were marshaled until they laid all order for reparation, because these ed. Among those nilending is the groundword by the Lieutenant people who are so easily beguiled are
much to blame themselves, Major-General Kensuke Isagal, Mili Kvaternik.
Tokyo Conclave
The three on trial and Kelemen led
tary Attache at the Japanese E-by Kvaternik went to Larbanne from
bassy in Shanghai.
According to the Tokyo Jiji, the following topics are being discuss
ed:
1. How can the causes of anti- Jupen agitation in China be eliminated?
2. What policy should be adopt ed toward the new administra tion in North China!
3. What attitude. should be taken toward the proposed Nanking conference for the adjustment of Sino-Japanese relations? 4. What polley should be pursued regarding Dater Mongolia and China's other frontier regions? Colonel Hiroshi Nemoto, chief of
Hungary, took new alinacs, bought clothes, obtained expense money and on September 29 divided into two groups and crossed into France, They met in Paris on October 2 and went to different hotels. They then went to Avignon and finally to Mar- seilles to study the ground for the killing, and the night before Alexan- der landed they met in a hotel at dix mud received their arma and bombs from a mysterious blonde woman who has never been found.
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SHAUKIWAN DISTRICT WANTS REDUCTION
Reference was made at the monthly meeting of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday to an appeal made by Chinese firms in Shaukiwan asking the Hongkong Telephone Co.. Ltd., to reduce its charger for Shaukiwan district.
the
1936.
The Secretary informed the meet-.
Switzerland, to furnish
Kvaternik started immediately for
an alibi, The meeting was presided over by Raitch and Pospichil returned to Mr. Li Sing-kui, who was supported Paris to plan a second attempt if the by the Secretary, Mr. Chan Ping-au. the press section of the War Office, first failed, and the blonde woman ing that the Chamber had taken up reported to high military officials at the War Minister's official residence disappeared. on Friday afternoon regarding his recent inspection tour of China and Manchukuo-Union News.
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CHINESE MINISTER· GIVES DONATION
Kelemen and Kralj
went to Marseilles to do the killing the matter with the Telephone Com- but Kralj became frightened by the pany on behalf of the Shaukiwan prospect of throwing a bomb into the fire, but for reasons explained the crowd, and ran away, going first to Company considered that such re- Aix and then to Paris. From Paris duction could not be granted at pre- he went by taxi to the forest of sent, Fontainebelnu where he was eventual-
The Director of Ambulance has the honour to acknowledge with grateful appreciation and thanks the following GENERAL POST OFFICE detrimental effect, of the depreciated
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Mah Janng Drive gross receipts $196.
Mrs. D. M. Woo (Donation for food and clothing, for New Territory Clinics) $25.
Society for the Protection of Chidren, (For the Convalescent llome
Cheung Chau) $100. "Wandering Scot" per South China Morning Post $100.
Mr. Kwok Shun per Dr. Li Shu-fan $50.
The following letter speaks for itself:
To Dr. Arthur Woo, Park Hotel, Shanghai.
GOVERNMENT'S PAYING
CONCERN
In replying to the Chinese Cham- ly arrested after living on berries for ber of Commerce the Telephone Com- a week
pany wrote that they had given Kolomen les buried in Marseilles mature consideration and regretted potter's field, where two women vic-being unable further to reduce rates tims of his bullets also lip-United in the district in question. "It does Press.
not appear to be realised that this Company has not increased sub- scription rates, notwithstanding the
exchange value of the Hongkong dollar, and that it has only bean posalblo hitherto to maintain rates at their present low level by virtue of the conservative policy adopted since the inception of the Company, coupled with the London, Feb.” 5.
observance -of The commercial accounts of the strict economy at all times. General Post Once show a net sur- "It may not be appreciated that plus of £11,944,607 for the year ended the gubscription rate charged for last March: This is £203,460 Icas Shaukiwan already fa substantially than the previous year's surplus, and below the standard rate for that area the chief reason for the reduction is and, while this Company has the Increased expenditure owing to res greatest sympathy for all firms and employees pay, toration of economy cuts in postal individuals in this time of business depression, it must be quite clear, that Reduction in the surplus of postal we also are equally subject to the services was £657,800. Telephones same economic pressure And are showed an increase
of therefore unable to make further con in surplus 2292,054.
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