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ALFONSO'S PLANS.

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are Royal nominees ineligible to join the Constituent Assembly, which will be elected on national sú Trage.

Provincial Governors Sacked. The Civil Governors of all the provinces have been summarily dismissed by official decree. Fresh Governors have been

a pointed,

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner's jury who sat with Mr. E. H. Williams yesterday afternoon to hold an inquest on Cho Wal, alias Fung Cheung, a life-term prison- Fer of Victoria Jail who met his i death on Thursday night when he

fell from the roof of the jail build-mark the advent of the revolu- ing when making an attempt to escape:

All officers and soldiers under arrest have been liberated, "to

tion,"

Status of the Church.

says that

RIOT IN EGYPT.

13 POLICEMEN SLIGHTLY INJURED.

TRAIN STONED.

Cairo, Yesterday. One demonstrator was killed, three were wounded and seven were otherwise injured, while thirteen policemen were slight- wounded, in a riot at Deker- ness, in Upper Egypt.

A train bearing a number of notable persons bound for Man- sura to attend a reception in honour of the Prime Minister mob, and the passengers was stopped and stoned by a were forced to alight. Police rein- forcements were summoned, but meanwhile the crowd detach-1

line.

The man who saw the prisoner's

London, Yesterday. i fall to death was an Indian ward-

A report that the new Spanish er who said that at about 9.30

Government had renounced the pm. on Thursday he was patrol- State Catholle religion which was ling the vicinity of "E" Hali, given prominence yesterday even- situated at the corner of Arbuthing is not confirmed in a reported the engine and blocked the not Road and Chancery Lane wäen from Madrid, which he saw

a man hanging from the while a decree relating to free- roof. He drew his revolver and dom of worship has been prepar. shouted in Cantonese to the man, ed, and another decree will pro- vide for secularisation of ceme- teries, competent observers

Government of opinion that the hitherto has not inado any move of disestablish- in the direction ment, and can hardly do so with- seriously undermining out

not to move. Just at that moment

the man fell on to the corner, of a small projecting roof on the first floor and then toppled over to the ground floor, striking the ground about two yards from where the witness was standing.

The man moved his head and then lay mo- tionless.

Chief Warder McLeod, who conducted

the proceedings, in- formed the Court

that finger marks were found on the wall showing how the man had scram- bled up with the ald of the ven- tilation holes,

to

The Chief Warder remarked that the rope (which was fastened a ventilation louvre. 15 feet from the edge of the roof) was about three or four feet from the top of a water pipe, making it just possible for the man to ruach it. He could have stepped on to the pipe and then climbed down.

Foreman

Even of the Jury: then he would have landed in the yard?

Corener: Yes. Foreman of the Jury: Does that roof lead to the outside world?

Chief Warder McLeod explained that there was

a temporary roof about twenty feet from the top of the wall which led into Chancery

position.

The police were greeted with a volley of stones, and fired on and dispersed the demonstrators, Reuter.' эге

its

The Minister of Justice yester- day received a deputation from the Chapter of Madrid Cathedral. This is interpreted as meaning its recognition of the present re- gime,

It is reported from Barcelona that a declaration is being pub lished on behalf of various Catho- lie bodies stating that they are prepared to accept the new re- time. The declaration ends, "God save the Republic."

The police have been strictly ordered to prevent any demon- strations against the Church.

Centre of Attraction.

Faris, Yesterday. It WAR

three o'clock in the morning before Alfonso was abed at his hotel, after one of the most tiring days of his life.

He sat up late discussing events with Queen Ens, who is notice ably more cheerful since the King

arrived.

Alfonso rose in the morning Lane and with the present build- evidently refreshed, and ate a ing operations being carried out hearty breakfast. The Queen of there, if the prisoner had got into the Belgians called to see him at the yard proper he could have walk- ten o'clock, and caught the train ed over the wall if nobody had seen him.

at eleven for Brussels.

The Prince of Asturias is still abed, but is better.

Around this royal, domestic

COLONEL SENT TO JAIL.

Colonel James Harvey Brown, D.S.O., aged fifty-one, who came for judgment at the Ol Bailey having been found guilty of fraudulently converting to his

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own use

£250 alleged to have been received by him on behalf of the International Brick Com- pany, of which he was promotor and director. was sentenced to six months imprisonment in the second division.

Colonel Brown, a Canadian by birth, had a distinguished war re-

He cord.

was awarded the D.S.O. for his part in the opera- tions against Bagdad, and the O.B.E., for services in the Cau- сазия.

The Common Sergeant, Sir Henry Dickens, K.C., said that he had the most unpleasant duty a judge had to do-to sentence a man who, up to a certain period, had a brilliant career.

"Colonel Brown," said Sir Henry, "was not truthful in re- He lied. I gard to the charge. can forgive a good deal, but lying necessarily has the effect of destroying any sympathy a judge may have.

"The fraudulent conversion of £250 was done with premedita- tion."

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The prisoner was sentenced on two counts, (intimidation and send drama the hotel throbs with ex- American ing a threatening letter), on Nov-citement, the hall being packed the following persons: ember 19, 1923, by the late Chief with journalists. Outside tand Justice Sir Henry Gompertz. On the first count he was given three years' hard labour and twenty years on the second, the sentences being con- current.

the for

film camera men ready to "shoot." Cadbury, P. Dry, L. H. Garlington. W. O. Arnold, L. Bruce, W. W. Crowds outside gaze at the win-T. F. Haskell, D. G. Hosp, Mrs. dows of the Royal suite.

S. E. Johnson, D. Kanley, G. H. The visitors' book is being Koster. H. A. Lane, G. S. Me- signed all day-long by distinguish, Pherson, A. M. Martin, I. C. ed sympathisers. One old lady Moller, C. B. Olivarius, Misa R. MOURNER'S PLIGHT. wrote, "Louise Theley and Count-Pressinger, O. Siku, Mrs. II. Stark, cas Jean de Belleville condemn Mrs. S. E. Stauffer, H. H. Winburg. ed to death by the Germans in 1915. Saved by the intervention of the King of Spain."

"CORPSE" THAT WAS ONLY

SLUMBERING.

Pedestrians in a Paris street one day not long ago were sur-

Queen's Ordeal.

scenes of the French revolution must be re-enacted. The Queen mastered her emotion and sought to console the women weeping and trembling round her.

At length, dawn broke, after a sleepless vigil.

came in re-

How near tragedy vealed in the fact that an attempf was actually made to force the Iron gates by means of a heavy

Madrid, Yesterday. An eyewitness has told Reuter prised to see an apparently dead the story of Queen Ena's Inat man lying on a bench. The effect terrible night In Spain spent in was enhanced by the fact that a an almost deserted palace accom- wreath dangled from the suppanted only by her children, the posedly deceased man's feet while Duchess of San Carlos, the ladles on his chest was pinned a sheet in waiting and twelve halberdiers of paper with the words "Pray-faithful old retainers who re-lorry. for me."

al- fused to desert their posts,

Refugees at Gibraltar. On the arrival of the police, though they would have been little

Gibraltar, Yesterday. however, the "corpse" was found real help in case of trouble, for Spanish grandees and monarch- merely to be heavily slumbering, they were practically unarmed. ists of lesser degrees are crowd- and was taken to the police sta- Outside the walls of the palace, ing for Gibraltar, and the hotels tion, where he revived. He then clearly visible from the royal here are full of Ingitives, inclust explained that he had been on apartments, a mob surged to and ing General Jordana, the Spanish the way to a funeral, but meeting fro, the men wearing red caps High Commissioner to Morocco, some friends had stopped in and waving red flags and torches, whose resignation was announced bar to console himself, until it was too late to go to the burial, by which time he was not in a state to do anything but lie down.

shouting Insults and clamouring|| at Madrid. for admission.

After receipt of the newa, the

To the pathetic group of watch-native guard at his offices in ers at the palace windows it must Tetuan fired on Republican demon-

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