KAISER
THE HONGKONG
WAS WARNED
BY KING GEORGE V.
Would Not Allow Attack on Friends
King George V. warned the Kaiser two years before the war that if Germany and Austria made war against Russia and France, Britain would not stand aside.
George V. is revealed as an outspoken diplomat in Volume 10 of British Documents on the Origin of the War. On December 8, 1912, he wrote to Sir Edward Grey from York Cottage, Sandringham, marking his letter "Private":
"My Dear Grey, Prince Henry of Prussia paid me a short visit here two days ago, He asked me point blank whether.
in the event of Germany and Austria going to war with Russia and France, England would come to the aid of the two latter Powers. I answered 'Undoubtedly yes, under certain. circum- stances'....
"He said he would tell the Em- peror whot I h
told him.
of
that
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course, Germany must know we could not allow either of friends to crippled."
"FORTUNATE" REPLY
י לגן
Sir Edward Grey answered "Private, Sir Edward Grey sents his humble duty Sir Edwarő Grey thinks that it would be danger- ous and misleading to let the German Government he under the impression that under no circumstances would England coine to the assistance of France and Russia if Germany and Austria went to war with them, and the thinks
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TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938.
CZECHS IN PREPARATION-Ever-present threat of war or Invasion causes the people of Czecho-Slovakia to prepare for an
emergency and these women at a training school in Olomouc learn to use gas masks and to give first aid to injured. One German newspaper recently asserted that Czecho-Slovakia would not last a year, intimating annoxation by Germany.
"Nonsense" Chaplin Gets 12 Years For
About Racial Purity
English Claim Stronger
--Professor
Nordte nonsense" is how the dis-
'Brutal Killing' of
Edward Boyle Chaplin, lover of Mrs. Georgina May Casserly was sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of Percy Arthur Casserley. The charge of murder was reduced to manslaughter.
The jury we alment pearly 1WO!
(201 thee return it mush
Hiller's settled on the tense court. It 14
Professor hours very fortunate that tinguished auitropologisi, 11 your Majesty was able to give an * G Parsons, describes answer to Prince Henry that prevent him from giving this pression at Berlin"
KAISER IMPRESSED
wil
*
was imprezued by The Kaiser King George's reply to his brother Writing to Sir Edward Grey of meeting with the King, Sir A. Nicol- son said:
claims to raclat purity.
1k helathe Loy HUBAV Nordi blond bell! F Tiermany. 501 |
be still that ver rould distinctly hene Chaplin's boots clicking along the stone corrider leading to the cells helter the flock stairs,
Y
"It has bare ompletely bred out by mixture with The Central Haro pean Alpine, a farkamedaily differ end cut type
Jong
3
"England Sp kittal of No:- Dikend, and pra, tssity no Alpune
“ኸ
tradition,
t'
"Ha Majesty rend to me o letter from Prince Henry recording that he had communicated to the German Emperor the opinion which the King had expressed to Priner meded down, without tursing. that Here is a consityship between Eglint Henry at Sandringham in regard to our helping our friends an opinion, and terminy the King sold to me this morning. | whith I as an honest man was bound to give.
" entirely agreed with m "Prince Henry said that the Em- peror had been struck by what the King had wald, but still more by the fuct that Haldane. on the same day. had used practically precisely the some language to Prince Lichnowsky (German Amassador ol London)
he
"The Emperor observed that now knew where he stood; that he was always in favour of peace; bul in view of the possible or probable attitude of Great Britain in future complications he could not be blamed it we were to make every prepara- tlon to meet every possible even tuality...
Caustic comments by the Kaiser'
COMPARISON
For a fraction of
second, court, Chaplin sesined the faces of the Jary.
when he turned to
Blank.
They fold ima netbuat selfspenseiotas, as fans were fearl of the secret they were maskmat
Nun Vow of Dying Girl
In Green
Husband
EMPIRE NEWS
PARTY TACTICS IN BENGAL
EVEN In
Calcuttn. Palitieal
Bengal have reached an exclfing stage. A conference is taking place of parties interested in the formation of Coalition Ministry I replace the
"1 am going to be a nun and present Moslem Government.
In reply to the cheek's Formal ques- God has shown me the way." bon the foreman, a burly bun in black stat, replid in a rieur. Arm form: "Not guilty **
Then the eleik neked. “Do you thi
"Guilty," replied the foreman.
This was a passage in a noto left by Miss Muriel Joy Skyrme,
the prones guilty of manslaughter 32-year-old shorthand typist, of Cross Road, Bushey, Herts, the Woman in Green," who was !found lying on the Wiltshire
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A series of Interviews has taken
Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Saral Buse, the Bengal Congress leader, and broller A verdict that death was due of Mr. Subhas Rose, the All-indja was insufficient evidence to show how also closeted for hours with the Home disinferiam poisonbar, but that there Congress President, Mr. Gandhi was the poison was administered. Was
Minister, Khwaja Sir Nozimuddin, CHINA NATIONAL AVIATION CORPORATION recorded t Er Inquest ht War- minster,
The Nordies, sal Professor I'm-
Chaplon did t flinch, Fe 1325 2015, have long bends, nee the
asked if he had anything to say, and, whs, colour, splendid tigaters and adven us youre was steady "No, sir turers, great individualists, but with
went a remarkable expeity for adaptation sound the court, hushed again by the
A sigh of pent-up emotion
The Alpines as ve short, round slow movement of Mr. Justice! heads, are dark, docile and sedentary, Humphrey's scarlet-clad arms as he,
dislike of the sen. They are folded them before him. with
il
discussing the release of Bengal's politicul convicts.
good fighters, but seldom fight unless "Edward Royní Chaplin," he said they are absolutely sure of victory, slowly, "the
Jury have
taken
Mr. John K. if. Skyrme, af Oxney, Abve all, they are prolife, breeding! merciful view of your case.
Watford. stated that HY Saturday under conditions intolerable to the
"I do not quarrel with that morning the sleeve of his sister's
man, view, but you killed that
dressing-gown cought fire and her left Nordles.
and you. killed him brutally.
arm was burned. At $1.50 she went "The sentrace of the Court is that!ut, ostensibly to wee he doctor.
She 75 for was not seen again. penal servitude you be kept in
"The mentality of these two types he continued. utterly different," "Nolady, for example, could posibly mistake Goering foa. Nordle."
LONCEST HEADS-
12 yours.
Almost before the Judge's words died away Chaplin bad swung on his Professor Parsons measured the heel and burned down the cell stairs, on Mr. Winston Churchill, then First heads of thousands of German
after hastening war the three warders Lord of the Admiralty, are reported prisoners and found that even Chose him. by Captain Hugh Wilson, a young who came from Schleswig-Holstein, | naval attache, after a conversation the "Nordte cradle." had heads with the Kaiser.
bronder and starter than the average Englishman.
This was marked "Secret."
The Kaiser reaurked "very de- cidedly that he had not asked the First Lord to Kiel Regatta, but that
"The English have the longest heads Europe," declared the professor, ww added that the Nordic type is the First Lord seemed to have a
the Eastern and habit of turning up uninvited, as he most prevalent in had done at the Kaiser Manoeuvres." Northern Counties.
The Kaiser niso said he did not know how to take the First Lord; what he said to him he thought Mr. Churchill transposed later. "He was fellow a man who could not be trusleth turned 15 points to starboard too
often."
Girls Debate Short Skirts
New York.
Are girls wearing their skirts too
Parsunia
Profatsur
research in
at anthropology
St. Thomas's Hospital, and late president of the section of anthrypology of the British Association.
Old Blends With New
Students
WOMAN SAYS FISH
FRYING IS AN ART
FRESH ORDEAL
persona
Express in Collision. The driver and the fireman of an express train were killed and 19 other Injured in a railway collision to-day, milos from Jubbulpore. No Europeans were among the victims. The collision occurred between the Allahabad-Bombay express and So far as he knew his sister had goods engine-Reuter. never been in the Warminster district South Africa before and she had no friends there. The Coroner: Was she a religious girl?-Mr. Skyrme: No. She occasion- ally went to church, but she had noi
EZ 5, IN HANDBAG
He went to a fresh ordeal. Below church activities.
£6,000,000 HOUSING SCHEME BEGUN
Cape Town,
A
in the cella, his solicitor, Mr. Baker, When his sister left hotne she had a
tell him that his handbag containing about £2 58. and Cape Town's housing scheme, which was waiting to
A beginning has been made with father, 71-year-old Henry Samuel a gold wristlet watch. Chaplin, had died two days before at his home at Suttan.
Until that moment Chaplin bad known nothing of his father's condition. And ut his death, His father did not know that his son was standing trial on a charge
of murder
murter.
stomach.
ite could not account for her death, is to cost £4,000,000. It aims at the but thought she might be suffering construction of 12,000 houses for the from shock as a result of her burns, re-bousint of slum dwellers over a
period of 12 years. SEARCH FOR WATCH
The first section of the scheme hos
A constable said the police had been started in the heart of the searched the Downs in vain for the worst slums, where huge blocks of handbag and watch which were miss-ats will be erected.
Rhodealan Union-References
tu
Mr. Justice Humphreys took two ing. and a half hours to direct the jury,
The coroner said it might be that the amalgamation of Northern and He suggested that the jury should the woman had thrown away her bag Southern Rhodesia have been made experiment when they retired by and watch in order to prevent herself by Mr. Huggins, Prime Minister of getting a Lall man to stand up and being recognised. There was no Southern Rhodesia, at a banquet necing if a shorter man could get his evidence on which to decide whether in
Bulaway **1 am personally hend on a level with the other's she committed suicide or what was satisfied," said Mr. Huggins, "that
the state of her mind.
nothing less than complete amaiga- "The better course," he added.}mation is in any way practicabic, "would be to bring in an open verdict because we cannot give up any free- and leave the matter there for other dom we have won. I am out-anti- people to find out, if they can, the out amalgamationist." previous history."
New Zealand
EFFECT OF IMPORT DUTIES
called.
Mr. A. St. John Hutchinson, her counsel, told the Judge that she would plead guilty to the third charge the indictment against her that of misprision of felony. This was accepted by the prosecution.
Home Building High In|
Britain
London,
They would then be able to see Ifj Athens, Tenn. it were possible to get into the post- morch 10 classes
on ton described by Chaplin, or whether short? Hunter College students may Tennessee Wesleyan College to the 4 would not be necessary to get be
call of a "no;"
electric bell hing in order to deliver the blows. The overwhelming defeat of strident the proposition, "Resolved, that skirtsystem, but the mellow tones of an
THE WOMAN'S JOBS should be three inches longer."at old iron bell still sound opening and
Later Mrs. Casserley's name was a mock debate held at the college clasing of the school day. The bell indiented feminina sentiment on and the Old College Hall have been number of years.
inseparable since 1872.
She came into court supported by a woman probation officer, a doctor
Auckland, and a matron.
It is now clear that the higher In the dock she sat with bowed
import duties announced yesterday tead, swaying slightly. Her fuco, A total of 3,500,000 new houses will eliminate cheap English foot- deathly whlie, enhanced the copper-have been built in Great Britain wear from the market The duty Blow of e hair peeping from. under since the war, Str Kingsley Wood, in this case in raised from 20 ger her hat.
Health Minister, reveals in the latest cent, or 3s a pair, whichever is issue of the Home and Empire." greater. England however,
will He declared the figure has not been gain, at the expense of Australla, equalled or even approached, in any trade in clothing, bordware, elec- other country.
trient supplies and building material. Commenting on the increases, the New Zealand Herald states that labour costa have been hampering | local industry. In their struggle against overseas competition. Con- sumers here are compelled either to He appealed for leniency on the pay higher duties or higher prices no clips), at which the Lord Mayor "One cannot shut ong's' eyes lo
the grounds that aho had
for locally manufactured goods. of Manchester wholeheartedly de fact that there are few people who, enough. clared himself as n chip and fish en-in her position, would not have done! thusiast.
Mrs. Casserley was still. leaning what she did.
the dock weakly forward on THE FRIERS' SAGA
"She is a woman of irreproachable when the Judge addressed her. She Traffic Conduct Taught character. She married her hus-did not raise her head, bund In 1627, having met him in 1923, j
"Far be it from me to say anything
In a sharp tone he said:
Lansing, Mich. "A great many people have tresied A course in traffic conduct and against Mr. Casserley, but we know you as though you were a
vietiin
heroing, driving technique has been instituted to re- now that he fell
then fact, you have been a participator here at the junior high school to drink habit and she had a difficult "I gave up being a school-mistress corded.
In a sordid Intrigue.
Teilch the fundamentals of petuni when ill," she told the News It told how the
and unhappy life. She was an Federation was. Chronicle, *My husband and formed in 1913, how it survived the Cellent wife, as the maid anys.
year of 1910
"Mr. Casseriey did not children, Mrs. Camerley When a younger and attractive
HELPED TO WIN THE WAR
now hus a turnover of £3,000 a year. Fish frying is an art like tenching,”
After the annual meeting in private
Her sobbing "Guilty" was barely
at which the secrets of the business audibic, presumably were discussed, the dele- 'gates' enjoyed lunch with fish (but Mr. St John Hutchinson
---Federation Claim Among delegates representing 10,000 fish and chip friers at the! kliver Jubilee of the National Federn-; He was handed one of the gold tion of Fish Friers in Manchester re-{ covered souvenir handbooks printed cently was a woman, the first in 25) to mark the Jubliée conference, which years, Mrs, Naomi Rotherwell, of will last three days and in which the Doncaster.
sagn of British fish friers
- daughters ran a flah and chip busi-'disastrous
(when
ness. To make up my income. I potatoes were short), how fish andl added a confectionery business, which| chips helped to win the war.
'UNHAPPY LIFE'
sold:
CX-
want elid.
man
came, he captured her affcotion"
LENIENCY APPEAL
suffered
·roll
"I am not going to treat you with driving. Although the children are leniency because of your condition, too young to drive, it is belleved It is because I do not think you had the course will enable them to drive | anything to do with the death of your mare Intelligently when they become Thusband,"
of age.
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