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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1936.
Italian Consul
"PAYMENT FOR
PLANS" STORY BY ACCUSED MAN
Malta, June 21.
THE names of Italian consular officials in Malta were intro- duced to-day into a case in which Nicholas. Delia, a barrister, and Joseph Flores, a tobacconist, are accused of espionage.
Towards the end of the pre- liminary proceedings before, a magistrate the prosecution askel that the rest of the evidence ba heard in public. The doors were opened.
Then a police officer read a sworn statement which had been made by Delin who declared that he had had business relations with the Italian Vice-consul, who, four monilis aga, told him that the Italian Consul-general would like to see film,
Delia's statement went on to May that he was introduced toi the Consul-general who said that he wished to obtain plons, sketches and Information con- cerning the dockyard and naval. matters. Payment would be made according to results.
Delia according to the statement; read in court, got into touch with
Named In Malta Spy Trial
-Missing-Safe?
Various wire sturios pince Mira. Hazel Archibald Draper, former Seattle, Wash. resinent and wife ed a wealthy Massachusetts atale senator, as missing from a ner at sea mrud in England.
Flores, who introduced a Famous
mat
known as Mr. X. This man said! he was in a position to supply
required information, the teNew Zealand
ling cash on delivery.
BECAME NERVOUS
Later both Delia and Flores berj
Geyser
I came nervous and dropped they
RECORD CREATED matter.. Della tall the Italian Consul that he could not rarry
Wellington, N.Z., July 1. Pobut, known to every visitor out the arrangement.
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Five Italians www deported A height of about 30ft. www- From Malta list October "in the reached, which would have heck, public interest." Two months ago considerally highes bui anether Italian was 'sentenced tojstrong wind. teten years' imprisonment under! months, the the Olivial Serrets Act.
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DEATH SENTENCE ON
SOLDIER OF 18
Sister Shot Dead and
Father Wounded
2011-left the house with murder in your heart2-Yes. You intended to murder your father but by recident you did not kill him, and you did not intend to shoot your sister, yet by accident you murdered her?—Yes.
This was part of a dramatie muzzle was pointing about 281, abex el questioning during a murder his sister's heil.
trial recently - at Lincolshire After pulling the trigger he next
remembered running down the road.
Asszes.
Herbert Smith, an 18-year-old pri-i vate in the Northamptonshire Reni-i men, was found guilty of murdering
Mr. Sandlands What did you in tend to do them!
his sister Dorathy (25) at Fleet Fea,, Mr. Justice Hawke: I don't think
near Holbeach, and he was sentenced" he ¦¦ bound to answer that unless he to death.
The jury strongly recommended
Film to mercy,
i wishes to the sin.
Smith: I was going to shoot my father.
Smith shot his sister as she was „Quesboned about the statement inc cycling to chupel with her flunce, and made, "I am glad she is dead," Smith; afterwards shot at and severely said he was they thinking of his wounded hb father, who was sitting mother. in his house
For Our Junior Readers
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The FIELDMOUSE
ECRETIVE, nimble little mice scamper about the fields and hedgerows, busy with their summer plans. Peering out of a tangle of honeysuckle, high up in the hedge, is Mrs. Dormous her glinting black eyes niert with watchful suspicion.
No wonder, Hidden behind the foliage is a rough, bedraggled, untidy looking dwelling, about Fize of a cricket ball. It is made of chewed honeysuckle bark, strengthened by grasses and leaves; inside are her nearly sightless balles, not yet a week old Their chief wall is for food.
Heated that he did no sew his Smith gave evidence that he was father. "pouted the gun," he said, very much attached to his mother and at the lawcet pane in the window he blamed his father for her death, and fired through' 11" for she was obviously suffering the The Jury returned their verdier said) for a long time before she went after a retirement lasting an hour. to hospital.
Mr. Justlee Hawke said to Smith: After his mother died he was not "I don't wish to say more than this, happy at home. “I could not get on that if the jury cannot accept your with my father," he said.
explanation--which is not perhaps! surprising--the only verdict they can find against you is the one they have returned."
He said that he never quarrelled with his sister about money. He did not speak to her and his father, with whom he had quarrelled.
"WOULD TAKE MY REVENGE"
Mr. P. E. Sandlands, K.C. (Smith's counsel): Did you ever tell your sister, Mrs. Powell, that you were go- ing to shoot both of them?
Smith: I told her I would take my revenge against my father; that Is nil. Smith said that on Jan. 13 he in- jured his foot, and while he was in hospital he thought a good deal about his home. It nearly drove mé raad,” ho sald.
Mr. Sandlands What did you do while you were in hospital?
He added that the Jury's recom- mendation would be sent immediately to the proper quarter."
SCOT SENDS SHILLING TO COVER STATE TAXES
Superior, Wis., July 1,
D. Grant, a resident of Kirkhill, Invernesshire, Scotland, year
Smith: male up my mind to shoot after year demonstrated his my father and myself.
Why? Because I blame my father Scotch thrift by sending the city
for my mother's death.
of Superior a check that was a
He added that when he came back few cents short of his estate taxes his mind did not waver from that
here. purpose,
Mr. Sandlands: Had you any inten- George Ostrom, city treasurer tion or desire to hurt your sister with of Swedish descent, personally that gun?-No.
paid the shortage in past years.
FIRED TO FRIGHTEN SISTER
Why were you looking out of the In an effort to curb the practice window?--I did not want my sister this year he sent Grant an early
to sec me. I wanted her is leave the statement, saying:
house before I moved.
"When I got on the roadway," he "You are 22 cents short. Piense cor.tinued, "I saw my sister and remit."
Drakard. I thought I would frighten
her. I was going to fire over her City officials were astounded when head."
they opened an envelope recently and He said the stock of the gun was found a shilling money order fron under his arm, and he thought the Grant--United Prem.
Plump enterpillars like sunlug themselves on the hawthorn leaves When hungry, the dormouse gobbles up these insects at a great speed. This nimble little mouse feeds with gusto too, on leather-Jackets-the destruc tive grubs of the daddy-longlego, in- famous for their attacks on cricket, pitches.
When at home, the dormioure al-'
FIGURE
FACES
Look closely at this head of "The account. ant" and you ulit see that is wil built up with figures. You trill And it amtéxén to try to make other fares with Egures.
FAMILY
Hard Workers.
-and Idlers
Dormouse is an active citier,
ways keeps the house door closed, Sometimes the wind gives the bubli a gentle shake. Out paps an Inquisi- tive whiskered head, followed comic- times by a shower of tile dormice. who, though they drop four feet or se on to the ground below, plek them- oclves up unhurt, and feniter into the undergrowth.
At times the family's peace is Inter- rupted by n rald from their near rela. flons the long-tailed fieldmice, who braides possessing longer, talis" have Jarger cars, more bendy eyes and a
much more aleri prenonce.
stalk to talk is a red-coated harves: mouse. He practising for the day when, two months ahead, he will per form wonderful ucrobatica on a away. ing whest ear in the cornfiehl
SWISS MERCHANT
"NAVY"
A
Basle, July 1. The old Joke of comparing non-existent person with the Ad- miral of the Swiss Navy looks like But Mrs. Fieldmouse dislikes hard losing Home of work or trouble. So when she cannot Switzerland, now owns two vessels drive a dormouse from its home, aheeapable of sufling the high seas.
probably settle down to bousekeeplog in a deserted binckbird's nest, quickly converting it to suit her ideas of coui
fort.
"
Wayside "Gym."
One of the feldmouse's chief pleasures les in the discovery of a wild bees-comb, Honey his wink- 110. In this he resembles Squire Brock, the badger,
MNWOUL
They are the motor-stipa Bernina and Albula, vach of which has a gross registered tonnage of 320.
They have been designed to travel the Rhine as far as Basle and yet up. I be capable of sea voyages, This will invoid transhipament of cargoes
Rotterdam.
As Switzerland has no international ocean rights for the Dying of her own Now peep at the mouse gymnasium. Actually I is a bed of cow parsley,tag, it is stated, the two vessels will growing on the hedgebank, but climb avail themselves of the courtesy of the sae, leaping and somersaulting from Dutch flag when at sen.--Reuter.
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