Friday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 16, 1938.
FAREWELL
Dancing Girls Will SPANISH
Tell of Lives at Night Club
WOMAN ON
ON TRIAL FOR MURDER
FEZ.
Moulay Hassen, wizened, tired, woman owner of a night club, has come to trial for murder.
Orgies at her club, with dancing girls, drugs and incense, have been mentioned.
Children, playing under a tree in Fez, knocked a box over and a hand was revealed. The police found in the box the re- maing of a woman.
Moulay Hassen's servant, Mohammed Ali, who told the police that "When Moulay Hassen looks at me I am frightened," des clared that the murdered 'girl had been kidnapped in Fez and taken to Moulay Hassen's house, but refused to play the part assigned to her, in spite of threats and torture,
He said he helped Moulay Hassen to strangle the girl.
In Mohammed's room were found a knife, an axe, scent, and bloodstains.
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In a concealed room with no light were four girls and a boy, "living skeletons," the heaviest weighing less ihan Ost.
They said they had been lured to the house by Moulay lassen, who met them in the streets of Melines, They were imprisoned. beaten and starved.
They had seen, they said; Moulay Hassen and Mohammed strangle the girl, as they watched through a crack in a door.
News of the discoveries spread through Fez Ike wildfire and the troops had to be called to prevent the lynching at Moulay lassen.
The omelul responsible for visiting houses where a death had occurred told the police that he had taken three or four bodies from Moulay Hassen's house.
The police discovered that there had been 10 women in the house from time to time between Novem ber, 1025, and November, 1936, and only five could be accounted for.
Mohammed, the servant, told of one whom he had taken out in a car and had given poisoned bread to eat. Her body was left in a ditch, ha ndded.
TWO YEARS' SEARCH The home at Fez was closed by the authorities, but the woman opened others. In 1936 the police found the body at a young slet nyar a house she run at Meknes.
A search started that lasted two years. Three bodies were found hidden in the walls of Hessen's house, it is declared.
Some of the dancing girls who had been kept prisoners in her house will appear as witnesses at the trial,
KEPT ALIVE BY
SILVER TUBE
IN MAN'S THROAT FOR 36 YEARS
24 OPERATIONS BEFORE HE WAS SIXTEEN
There is a man living in London who has been kept alive for 38 years by breathing through a silver tube filted in his throat,
1,000 FAMILIES
FOR CANADA
M.P. PLANS £10,000,000 SETTLEMENT SCHEME
SAVING BRITAIN MILLIONS
ON UNEMPLOYMENT
A remarkable scheme to restart the
now of settlers to the Dominions and colonies has been prepared by Bri- gadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft, M.P., and Mr. R. S. Daigleish, who this year went to British Columbia to investigate the possibilities of com- munily settlements for British imm!- grants.
UFS
Disbanding of the International Brigade that has been fighting for Loyallst Spain was preceded by a just parade somewhere behind the Ebro front.. Farewell ceremonies were extensive, with speeches by leaders of the Loyalist forces. Here is Premier Juan Negrin bidding the men good-bye, from a tree-shaded platform,
Verdict For Newspaper In Libel Claim
They suggest in their report, that an Empire Development Company be formed "with a view to developing and settling such areas within the conclusion of the second year of the British Dominions and British settler's occupation. Colonial Empire as appear to present the most favourable opportunities for It is pointed out that Parliament the investment of British capital, and to assist migration and settlement subject to the concurrence and good
and that, schemes,
the owing to will of the Governments concernede
failure to take advantage of this sun the Prime Minister and the Cabinet.
The report has been presented to the amount was last year cut down to
£1,500,000.
has for many years voted £3,000,000
The report suggests that this, or s great sum, might usefully be employ-
The company, it is proposed, would be a private corporation responsible to a shareholders, but it would be ed over the next seven years for the the object of the Government to assist In schemes of which they approve,
CASH GRANTS PROPOSED
purposes of the scheme,
CUTTING UNEMPLOYMENT
The carrying out of the experiment
A verdict for the defendants was given in an action in the High Court, Dublin. in which Mr. William N. Willis, restaurant proprietor. Mountjoy Square, Dublin, and promoter of an all- claimed in wrestling contest, damages against the Irish Press. Limited. Dublin, for an alleged Ilbel.
The jury, after an absence of half an hour, found in favour of the de- fendant newspaper, and judgment for the "Irish Press" was entered with costs.
Mr. Willis, who was promoter of an all-in wrestling contest in Dublin and Padro between Paddy Casey
This assistance would take the form is estimated to effect a saving of un- Peltonen, alleged that the newspaper withdrawing of cash pranta under the Empire employment benefit of approximately had libelled him by Settlemem Act, or credit facilitica total cost will amount to not more published in the issue of December the and apologising for statement £15,000,000 in 20 years, hile
." under the Trade Facilities Act. A re- presentative of the Treasury would than £10,000,000, a great port of 1. 1937, as having been made by him permanent director on the which will be repaid, and could be in an interview to the effect that the board of the company, the rhairman used for the development of further match had been arranged in advance so that one or other of the contestants: of which would be approved by the settlements.
would win. Prime Minister.
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As an alternative, the sponsors of Experimental settlements would the scheme are of opinion that, as far be proceeded immediately with, as capital expenditure is involved, Such experiment to cover 10,000 the scheme could be carried out by a carefully selected settlers, their debenture issue, the financing of the company by public issue being, at such n rate of interest as to enable settlers to make repayments without undue burden.
wives and families.
In view of the promise of whole hearted co-operation of the Govern- ment of British Columbia and the
ing.
The plaintiff stated in evidence that he had told Peltonen to let Casey win, but that as Peltonen would not agree, he had to "doublecross" him so that Casey's undefeated record would remain intact.
Witnesses on behalf of Mr. Willis stated that all-in wresting matches, were pre-arranged.
QUICK RECOVERY AFTER ILLNESS
In this case the Government would For the defener, it was denied that offer of free land by the Premier of be asked to contribute only sufficient the words complained of were libel- that Province, immediate steps, it is to pay for transport, two years' worklous or defamatory of Mr. Willis, and stated, should be taken to accept that allowance, and an allowance for train-it was pleaded that the occasion of offer and to prepare for the early
the publication was privileged, advent of settlers."
"Whichever alternative is adopt occasion was privileged.
Mr. Justice O'Byrne ruled that the The report stresses that a prelimi-ed," It is added, "we believe that the nary sum, not exceeding £10,000,000, Investment is sound from the point adequate to settle 10,000 settlers, of view of Great Britain, and un im- should be allocated by the
British mense
boon to the Dominion of This amazing feat was revealed as Government, or raised by public sub-Canada, or any other Dominion
scription under the Trade Facilities where similar schemes are a result of stories published
adopted. re- Act. cently concerning young boys who
The report also points out
Very often that
a period of
critical could not be fitted with gas masks All lands, houses, farm buildings, under the proposed scheme there valescence is much more because they had to breathe through machinery, and livestock, would re- would be community halls, schools than the actual Biness that preceded their silver tubes.
main the property of the company
and churches,
it. Your whole body is loft in a co-operative com- until the settler has paid off his in-munity stores and transport. The state of complete exhaustion, You indebtedness to it. Fixed charges of extreme loneliness of the past, which have no strength to combat any
Interest and sinking fund, spread often had
renewed attacks. noel ha tragle results, over twenty-three years, if necessary, longer be dreaded in planned com- would become payable as from the immunity settlements.
The man who has had a
his throat for 30 years is
tube
· Mr, William Sisley, 39, of North Kentplace, Woolwich, S. E.
In a letter Mr. Staley says thut at the age of three he was taken to the London Hospital with an infected windpipe, was operated on, and thei silver lube inserted in his throat.
"Before I was 16 years of age." he adds, "I had had 24 operations. After 30 years I still have to breathe through my tube."
Mr. C. W. Jolly, of Blake-avenue, Barking, runs Mr, Sisley very close in the length of time he has had a tube.
"Mine was first inserted in my throat when I was 14," he says, "and
I shall be 47, next February.
"I used to wear a collar and · Ule- and play football, and 1 have been
In the same job for 25 years."
FATHER OF SEVEN
Mr. Jolly is the father of seven children.
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Perhaps the most estonishing re- cord of all, however, is that of 63- year-old Mrs Willcox, of Harvey- road, Leytonstone, who has had a tube for 25 years, atterids to her- self, and has never had medical assistance except on one Occasion when the tube broke In her throat.
any
1. M. WILCON, Per stat, said the bro
Block was removed from her
mony a young woman.""
than 20 per cent.
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