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EX-DEPUTIES INVOLVED

Belgrade, Yesterday. The trial is proceeding of Punica Ratditch, ex-Radical Deputy, on a charge. of marfering Stephan Raditch, the Croat Peasant leader, and of killing two other deputies and of "grievously injuring" two others in the Skupstina.

Ex-Deputies Dragutin, Jevano vitch and Thomas Pupovitch were also charged with inciting to mur- der and with complicity.

the latter It is alleged that threatened Raditch on the day of would be the murder that he assassinated in Parliament.

The statement of the Supreme Commission of Public Health sald that Raditch's death was only in- directly connected with his wounds. -Reuter.

The tragedy occurred in Bel- grade last June.].

GENERAL ELECTION

RUGBY LABOUR CANDIDATE DIES

FRESH NOMINATION

London, Yesterday,

In consequence

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1929.

RAIN NEARBY

CHANCE FOR RICE HARVEST

IN SZE YAP

LIGHTNING KILLS CHILDREN

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

SWINDLING AND FORGERY

£250,000 INVOLVED

SOVIET MINISTER'S - BROTHER TO BE TRIED

TRIAL IN PARIS

Pakkai, Yesterday. Hopes that the first rice harvest of this locality will not be alto- gether a failure on account of the!

Paris, Yesterday. prolonged drought were revived a

Maximovitch Litvinof, brother of few days ago when very heavy rain. accompanied by thunder, fell, but the Soviet Assistant Foreign Minis- At any ter, will shortly be tried here on a for only 15 minutes or so, rate the crops have taken on a new charge of swindling and forgery. lease of life.

There was a storm the next day with farther thunder and rain. Two children were killed and one injur

Degrees Temperature, 10 am., 10-

day

75 Temperature; 2.30 p.m.,

yesterday

80

Humidity, 10 a.m., to-

day

84

Humidity, 2,30 p.m., yes.....

terday

68

ed through a tree, struck by light- This oc- ning, falling on them. curred at Paksha, Kongmoon. Many plants were damaged, al- though only slightly.

Exodus to Hong Kong

It is alleged that he sold seven forged bills of exchange to the Russian Trade Delegation in Berlin, by whom he was formerly employed, for a quarter million sterling.

in He was arrested in Paris December in an hotel where he was staying with a young Polish woman. Subsequently two alleged accom-

Marc Jeffe plices,

and Willie Liberius, (ex-hotel manager) were arrested, and will be tried along with Litvinoff. Reuter.

DUKE & METHUEN

SILVER WEDDINGS" AS

COLONELS

INTERESTING INSPECTION

London, Yesterday, Field-Marshal Lord Methuen,

A change has been made in the who is Colonel of the Scots 1,200 system of departure of steamers for Guards, to-day inspected Hong Kong on six days a week. men of the First and Second Bat For some time past, all have left talions of the Regiment, after-

a of the death of except one after the arrival of the ward presenting number of

mid-day train from up-country. them with long service medals.

In a short speech he referred The last cleared after the last traini

the Labour candidate, Mr. Yates, the Rugby elcetion, has been post- poned. The new nomination

will

be on June 7, and polling on June

13.

Socialist Menace

came in. Now all leave after the to the fine work of the two batta-

Passen-lions in China and at Aldershot. mid-day train's arrival.

gers on the last train have there- Lord Methuen expressed his de- next day. light at the presence of the Duke fore to wait until the The change is due to the large of Connaught, adding "This year "A strong Liberal Party is the exodua for Hong Kong, following the Duke and I have arrived at !

London, Yesterday.

surest safeguard against the extremists on both sides."

"Labour must have a clear majority."

"Not a Conservative vote must be wasted if Mr. Baldwin is to be returned."*

"Partisan labels of Liberals and Conservatives should be dropped in face of the Socialist menace." These

representative of newspaper opinions and indicate the open nature of to-morrow's great issue.

are

the political and internal unrest in the Sze Yap.

[Note: Pakkai, the port of Keng- moon, in the West River delte, is about eight hours by steamboat from Hong Kong, annroximately 100 miles

away.

AULD REEKIE”

CELEBRATING GRANTING OF EDINBURGH'S CHARTER

1,600 YEARS OLD

London, Yesterday.

*The Liberals'

hour eleventh

The Duke and Duchess of York' "bombshell" consists of a manifesto were present, at Edinburgh to-day, over the signatures of 100 business for the celebration of the sixteen men expressing the opinion that hundredth anniversary of the grant- Mr. Lloyd George's unemploymenting of the city's charter by King proposals are

and Robert the Bruce. financially sound.

economically

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald broadcast Labour's final appeal last night and asked:

"Give Labour a fair chance to take up the work where it felt it in 1924." Mr. Baldwin, in & speech at Runcorn, exclaimed:

"We have got to govern our» i selves or bust. Vote in accord- and ance with your conscience ronviction. Whatever your deci- sion I shall bow to it."

---Reuter.

A NURSE BITTEN

A brown "chow" dog belonging to Mr. S. Sanger, No. 458, The Peak, was yesterday removed to Kennedy Town for observation after it had

bitten Miss S. Ballance, a nurse employed at No. 513, The Peak.

AT

Royal Interest

"The occasion is special in- terast to the Duchess and myself because Robert Bruce was a com" mon ancestor of us both", said the Duke.-British Wireless Service.

LORD BALFOUR

DOCTORS ORDER "COMPLETE

REST"

BULLETIN ISSUED

our silver weddings-25 years as Colonels of the Grenadier Guards

and Scots Guards respectively." He called for three cheers for the Duke.

The troops marched past their Colonel, first in slow step and then in quick march.

Among the invited spectators were ex-officers and men who had served with the regiment on the Marne, at Ypres, on the Somme and in the attack on the linden- burg line.British Wireless Ser- vice.

"LINDY

MARRIED

CEREMONY KEPT A GREAT SECRET

PRESS BOOM FOLLOWS

New York. Yesterday. "Lindy and Anne married" runs in big black letters across the top of the front pages of newspapera which proclaim, the marriage of the "sky young airman," Colonel C. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow.

The event bas taken precedence over the slump - Wall Street and forecasts of the British General Election,

The ceremony at Eaglewood was London, Yesterday.

absolutely secret, in the drawing Lord Balfour, who has not been room of the bride's summer home. really well for some months, has There were no bridesmaids been ordered complete rest by his best man, and even the servants

doctors.

A bulletin, issued to-day, an nounces this bat adds that Lord

Balfour's condition is quite satie- factory.

Lord Balfour is 90 years of age. British Wireless Service.

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Presbyterian clergyman omitted the word "obey" from the usual formula, but explains that he usually does this, unless the inclu- sion of the word is requested by the bride and bridegroom. Reuter's American Service.

GERMAN COLONIES

ACTIVITIES OF A FORMER

OFFICIAL.

BERLIN REPUDIATES:

Von

London, Yesterday.

Herr The activities of Kuehlmann,

Under- ex-German Secretary for Foreign Affairs, aim- ing at a restoration of ex-German colonies to Germany, was repudiated by Dr. Stresemann in a staterneut to Press men et Berlin.

Von Kuehlmann recently handed the British Ambassador in Paris ai memorandum on the matter which the Ambassador forwarded to Sir Austen Chamberlain, whose en- quiry addressed to the German Foreign Minister elicited a dis- avowal of the activities of Ven Kuehlmann "who holds no official position-Reuter.

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