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NAZI PLAN Mother FOILED BY MUSSOLINI Starved: Submarine Warfare In Son
Mediterranean
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PARIS, April 29, (UP)-A report, approved by the French censors, has been received in Paris to the effect that Mussolini has prevented two German sub- marines based at Majorca from raiding French shipping In the Mediterranean.
According to the "Aux Ecoutes," Mussolini has stub- bornly refused to permit the war to extend to the Mediterranean. The submarines have been bused at Majorca since August last year, when they were secretly detached from
German naval
units manoeuvring off the Spanish coast.
It is stated that Mussolini has now advised the Spanish Government to order the submarines to either leave or submit to Internment.
Be
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A LEWISHAM, S:E., jury found, recently, that
April 29, 1940.
LOCALISED FIGHTING
Central China War
Dragging On
Fighting in Central China on the Hupen, Hunan and Klangsi tronts was connned to localised operations during the week-end, according to
a message from Chungking.
The Japanese counter-attack from Nancnong was resumed on Saturday. Fighting raged in the vicinity of Fengrsin, where the entrenched Chinese forces held their ground..
North of Fengnsin, two fierce as- The jury returned a verdlet_of_ manslaughter, against the son, lic-saults an Chienenowit were launch- Kinald Alfred Newth, of Brownhill-ed by the Japanese, supported by a
dozen field pleces, on Saturday rand, Catford, S.E.
stated that the The coroner, Major W. H. White-yesterday, It 18 bouse, sent him for trial at the Old Chinese maintained their positions.
Completo Failure Bailey.
The Chinese claim that the Japan-
woman of 79 died of starva- tion. Her 66-year-old son was arrested in court.
Old Broad
and
The mother, Mrs. Bridget Eliza-se naval offensive trom the Tungung beth Newth, was found lying dead in Lake was a complete failure, scores of armed launches being sunk by bed wearing only a few rags.
Police called by the son maid the Chinese shore batteries. "This naval only food in the house
was reduced to offensive by yesterday WAS BOINC
operations," the report bread which a baker said was 14 to using
alleges. 10 days old.
In Anhwei Chinese forces are mop- ping up remnant Chinese west of Wuhu. In an attack on Tung- capturing Nanling, 32 miles south- tsun and Sanlilien, south-west Nanling, the, Chinese inflicted heavy casuanes on the enemy.
Newth told the Coroner work was They
In explanation, the. Spanish Government states
the subvery that
sluck in his trade. marines have not yel been interned because Spain has an option on their "scratched along" with a mother's
old age pension.
purchase,
Ate Meat Pics 1ts mother lived chiefly on meat extract and meat pies he bought at a nearby shop.
It was stated that a police surgeon could work in the house only with the aid of a torch
More Demonstrations SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROME, April 20 (UP)-Student demonstrations against Yugo-Slavia are still reported from Florence.
Simultaneously, a New burst of Anglophobe appears la the Italian The gas taps were corroded and Press, which accused the Allies of had not been used for a long time. trying to spread the war to "Italy's neighbours cross the Adriatic In order to create a new Wan front against Germany.'
"
The reports from Florence state de- that five hundred students monstrated against Yugo-Slavin, de- nouncing the recent manifesto issued by the Nationalist Party in Yugo- Slavia, asking for the restitution of Trieste.
In the
Signor Gayda, writing "Voce d'Italia" to-day, accused
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agents of Britain and France of being NAZIS LAUGHED
the insligators of the manifesto.
"Italy must be prepared for the spreading of the conflict in the near future," Gayda said.
Victimised City Firm
OUT OF COURT
LONDON, Apr. 29 (Reuter).-The main theme of the Editorials in this morning's newspapers is Ribbentrop's fomous "disclosure."
utter re-
of
Chinese Launch Drive West of the province, on the north bank of the wai Hiver, spirited fighting has been in progress, part- carry in the region near Shouyang- kwan. The Chinese here are stated to have launched a drive against the invaders.
More than 200 casualties have been inflicted on the Japanese, it is claim- ed, and they are now being driven back steadily.
Chinese forces in the Chungtino Mountain regions in South Shansi launched a general counter-offensive on Saturday and, according to latest reports, they have made "sweep.ng advances,
ut
Tree Thieves Caught
Police Carry Out
Raid On Peak
The sentence was suspended for one
The "Daily Telegraph" says: "Our Zurich correspondent quotes neutrals
Ruids by the Police in the Peak as observing that our best pro- district over the week-end on tree- pagandists
the German propagan wood thieves led to the appearance are dists themselves. That expresses 20 well the effect which Ribbentrop's of four people before Mr. Houston $2,187 Embezzlement
the Central Magistency this latest propaganda exercise has Proe morning By Jardine's Clerk duced. As the commentator on
Chan Chiu, 01, unemployed, caught Columbia Broadcasting Corporation's Pleading guilty to six charges network in America caustically re- with 18 cattles of wood in his pos suspended sen- tener of three months' hurd labour, of embezzling $2,187.94 from marks, The Germans are lucky to Lession, was given Jardine, Matheson and Co. Ltd., able to find convenient documents and awarded $2 from the Poor Box.
wherever they fo Koo Ka-ming, clerk of the The Times" thinks Ribbentrop's Company residing in Nathan speech was made for the benefit of yea Chung Yau, 19, widow, was fined
bewildered Germon Road, was remanded for 24 the
peuple,
of wood. hours by Mr. Edwards at the "Ribbentrop is being laughed out of $10 or a month's hard labour for the
court by publle opinion throughout the possession of 24 cattles Central Magistracy this morn-world. This is the man who told his
Chiu Mui, married woman, who had 20 eatlies, was sentenced to six ing.
master that Great Britain only bluffs weeks hard labour, and ordered to Mr. Edwards mentioned that the and never fights, that after the con-
be expelled from the Colony as a Rev, Higgs would like to say some quest of Poland she would eagerly destitute at the expiration of her thing before Kon was sentenced, accept his peace offer, and that
The charges against Koo were that American supplies would
be with-sentence.
A remand of 24 hours was ordered le embezzled $585.59 on January 25; held from the Allies. Having beani $257.15
September 27, 1938; proved mistaken on every one of the case of Cheung King, 35, $301.30 on January 23, 1939; $827 on these points he still argued that widow, who had 42 cattles in her Inquiries into her eir- October-4-1030; $0.05 on March 10: France would leave Grent Britain in possession. and $320.65 on January 20.
the lurch (and directed his dipomacy eumstunees-are-to-be-made.
that accordingly),
Domlulans
on
Discrepancies
the
Scrious Mr. P. Wynter-Blyth, appearing would seerde from the mother coun- for the Company, said Koo was em try and that the whole world would
turn against Britain, who starting with tut ployed for six years
of the neutrals.
$40 a month, and his present salary oppreis
was $85. Koo was placed in charge!
is
was the
discredited and
of invoices and stock records. and Ribbentrop has taken his place, but he is even less skilful than his pre- mude delivery of goods.
During stocktaking, serious dis-decessor in the post of lat-in-chief crepancies were found in the actual to the Nazl regime.
In stocks and the stock records.
some cases
the invoices.
Koo hud added. liems 10
dis-
Mr. Wynter-Blyth said the
a loss of over crepancies revealed $10,000, and he was able to prove them. Gonds concerned were wool. Koo said his family expenses were too much to meet from his salary.
MADRID, Apr. 28 (Reuter)--The death is unbouneed of the celebrated Spanish painter, Hoaquin Mir, aged €6.
HOUSEBREAKING CHARGE
Sequel To Loss At Kowloon Docks
The loss of seven ingots of white metul from a store room of the Kaw- loon Docks had a sequel at the Kow-
Joon Magistracy to-day when Ng Chi-j keung, 20, Leung Ngan, 33, Suen Kan, 52, and Tam Chat, 35, appeared be-
Mr. Himsworth.
fore
Ng and Leung were charged with housebreaking and larceny, and, alternatively with receiving stolen property. Tam and Suen were both charged with receiving the ingot.
Det.-Sergeant Dowman prosecuted and the case was adjourned for iwo days. Mr. D. McCallum represented Tai Chat,
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