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MACDONALD AND THORNTON SENTENCED TO

VILLA WIN

AGAINST

NEWCASTLE

Everton's Second Defeat

In Two Days.

LINCOLN NOW SAFE

Londen, To-day. Aston Villa avenged their defeat) at St. James Park when they over- whelmed Newcastle United at Villa Park yesterday. The Villa are now second to the Arsenal, six points in

arrears.

Everton, F.A. Cup finalists suf- fered a second defeat in two days! when Leeds scored the only goal at Headingley. The Cup Final

FIVE BRITISHERS DECLARED GUILTY

Mr. John Cushny.

will be played at Wembley this AN APPEAL

coming Saturday, when Man- chester City will be opposed to last year's League champions.

Chelsea gained a valuable point at Leicester and are now in a more satisfactory position to avoid relegation.

Lincoln made certain of an- other season in the Second Division when they shared the spolls against the City at Bradford.

The following were the results ne cabled by Reuter.

FIRST DIVISION Aston Villa

3 Newcastle Huddersfield 3 Liverpool

1 Leeda

Everton 1 Chelsea

SECOND DIVISION Bradford C. 1 Lincoln

Leicester

Third Division (South).

3 Aldershot

Coventry

AGAINST TWO -

SENTENCES

Other Four Britishers

Leave To-morrow.

STAFF OF NINE TO CONTINUE VICKERS' BUSINESS

Moscow, To-day. An appeal is to be lodged against the sentences imposed on Thornton and Macdonald Monk- house, Nordwall, Cushny and pro- bably Gregory, will leave Russia to- morrow night.

Metropolitan Vickers will still be o represented by nine men, who, pen- ding instructions will continue the firm's business as usual.

Northampton

2 Torquay

Luton

3 Queen's P.R.

1

}

Southport

Halifax

DIVISION 111, (North)

Rotherham

2 Barnsley

(Table on Page 8.)

DONOGHUE

NOT RIDING IN

EPSOM RACE City And Suburban Handicap.

CHAMPION JOCKEY ON COLORADO KID

MOSCOW COURT'S

VERDICT

3 BRITONS BANISHED; ONE ACQUITTED

PRIVY COUNCIL MEETS TO-DAY TO| CONSIDER BOYCOTT

MOSCOW, TO-DAY.

A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE THE CLOCK ON THE KREM- LIN TOWER CHIMED THE HOUR OF MIDNIGHT, "LAST NIGHT, FIVE OF THE SIX BRITISH ENGINEERS OF METRO- POLITAN VICKERS, ARRAIGNED HERE ON CHARGES OF

MILITARY AND POLITICAL ESPIONAGE, SABOTAGE AND BRIBERY, WERE DECLARED GUILTY. MR. A. .W GREGORY

WAS ACQUITTED.

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Mr. C. Thornton was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and Mr. W. Macdonald to two years' imprisonment, while Messrs. A. Monkhouse, J. Cushny and C. Nordwall were ordered to be' banished from Russia. Ten of the 11 Russian accused were sen-

tenced to terms of imprisonment varying from 10 years to 18

months.

Unprecedented scenes were witnessed both inside and outside the Court during the 811⁄2 hours retirement of the Judges, and large bodies of militia were called out to check the dense throng of people who gathered outside the Trades Union Hall to hehe verdict; the culmmation of the sine-day trial, feito e nga e k

WIDE INTEREST WAS EVINCED IN LONDON, "AND IN FLEET STREET CARS WERE HELD IN READINESS TO HUSH SPECIAL EDITIONS OF THE EVENING PAPERS TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY, FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS KEPT AN ALL-NIGHT VIGIL, AWAITING NEWS, AND A PRIVY COUNCIL MEETING HAS BEEN SUMMONED FOR THIS MORNING TO CONSIDER A BOYCOTT ON SOVIET GOODS.

The proceedings yesterday. up to the time of the Judges' retire- The deportation sentences im-ment at 3.30 p.m., constituted the ply that Monkhouse, Cushny and

Nordwall must

leave Russia

within three days from 1.25 am to-day, and before leaving the Court they were asked to sign document to that effect.

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They will leave at 10.45 p.m. to-night for England, accom- panied by Gregory.

Monkhouse, interviewed by Reuter, together with the others, said that Thornton and Macdonald were marched off from Court under guard before they had me to say goodbye, but they hoped to visit them in prison this afternoon.

London, To-day. Gordon Richards, champion En- glish jockey for the past two years. will take out Colorado Kid in the!

They were much more de City and Suburban Handicap over one mile and two furlongs at Epsom pressed at the fate of their col- leagues in prison than overjoy- this afternoon.

Among the probable fifteened at their own liberty, and they starters is Clogheen, last year's with solemnity.

drank their colleagues' health

Reuter. winner. Totaig, winner of last will year's Royal Hunt Club be sent to the post with Bob Steve Carslake in the saddle. Donoghue has again given this] race a miss..

Owing to the inability of the owner to secure the ser-"

vices of a suitable jockey Goldennis is ELT starter.

The following are the starters and jockeys:

Dastur (Beady)..

unlikely

Totaig (Carelake), Iglesant (Pat Bensley).

Great Boot (Collins).)

Pommame (Perryman).

"We Need Sleep.”

The Britishers are advised by Turner not to comment on the trial as it might not be wise at the pre- what they needed most was 24 sent juncture. They all said that

hours sleep.

speeches of the defence counsel. and the final pleas of the accused. who declared, "I am guilty. I have With the exception of Macdonald.

nothing to add," the Britishers strongly denied the charges.

pleaded guilty.

Officials Wait At Foreign Office. TELEPHONE LINE HEPT OPEN

Chater Road.

GENTLEMETS OUTFITTERS.

TO PRISON BY SOVIET

With only mast and funnel showing above the water, the ill- fated Norwegian steamer, "Fjorden," which went aground on Cheung Chau Rock last week, now lies in six fathoms of water, a menace to shipping.

SOVIET TRIAL

CONDEMNED BY

LONDON PRESS!

Travesty Of Justice Alleged.

DIVERSE OPINIONS ON RETALIATION

London, To-day. Most of the English morn.. ing papers condemn the Moscow trial as a travesty of

Justice either in leading arti- cles or by interpretative sar-· donic write-ups.

The "Times" and the Herald" are exceptions. keep strictly to facts,

UPWARD TREND ON WALL ST.

Silver Inflation Rumours.

BRISK BUSINESS DONE

New York, To-day.

The New York stock market cis- played a slight upward trend, yes- terday. The silver market has been influenced by the aggressive buying, apparently caused by the continued rumours of inflation, and also by the strength of foreign currencies. Business improved to 1,430,000 shares.

In their daily report, Messrs.

CLEAN - UP OF E. A. Pierce & Co., through their

BANDITS

Manchukuo Officials Take Action.

PIRACY SEQUELS

Dairen, To-day.

The kidnapping of the British

local agents, Messra. Asia Landa, Ltd, state:

The controlling market fa in- |fluenced still by fuflation talk, which - is likely to continue to be the prin- {cipal factor at present. Eails and utilities are disappolating, particu- larly rails.

The wheat and silver marketų

officers of the Nanchang from their have felt the influence of continued original kidnappers, and other ban-inflation rumbura, aided also by the dit atrocities, has actuated the Man- strengths of foreign currencies, chukuo Government in ordering a Cotton: An active market, with thorough combing of the triangular minor profit-taking in evidence zone in which are the brigand chiefs the close.

Teng Teh-mei and Liu | Tien-wen Industrials advanced 1.06, rails "Daily and 2,000 of their followers.-0.42, and utilities 0.24, while bonda

They Reuter.

|declined 0.25.-Reuter.

The "Daily Telegraph" in JAPANESE SHELL

a leading article states that the Government must use the utmost).

efforts to procure commutation

of the sentences. TO MOSCOW.

If commuta- tion is not immediately forth- London, To-day, coming it will be necessary to The Foreign Secretary, Sir John consider taking measures for Simon and a number of high which the. Government is fully Government Officials remained at equipped, the "Telegraph", states. the Foreign Office, throughout yes- The "Daily Mail" hopes that terday evening awaiting the Mos-even Soviet "Justice" will eventual- cow trial verdict, which, immediately commute the sentences to de- ly on receipt, was flashed by wire-portation. The Government has less to the Premier, Mr. Ramsay handled the crisis firmly and cour en-Macdonald who is proceeding to the ageously throughout, and should United States on the ss. Beren- further steps have to be taken, the im-garis for his talk with President Cabinet have the wholehearted |

*Roosevelt.

The Russians, without exception,

Britishers' Sentences.

The sentences on the British gineers are as follow:-

Charles Thornton, 3 years'

prisonment. William Macdonald, 2 years'

prisonment.

Alan Monkl.cuse, expulsion, John Cushny, expulsion. Charles Nordwall, expulsion. A. W. Gregory was acquitted. Russians' Penalties.

im-

It is understood that the Foreign support of the Nation, the news" Offico, throughout the night kept paper states.

a direct telephone line open to The "News Chronicle" comment- Moscow.

of the sen- The London evening jing on the mildness newspapera, which ordinarily close tences on Macdonald and Thornton, down at 6 p.m. remained open suggests that, if properly ap Awaiting a Reuter flash of the ver-proached, the Soviet may be induc- dict Fleet Street was lined with ed to commute them. Threats, vans walling to dash the special however, are useless and an "em- éditions throughout London-Beu-bargo would be worse than use- ter.

less, the paper adds. PRIVY COUNCIL MEETING,

KUPEIKOW

No Attempt Yet At Advance.

Peking, To-day,

A Chinese communique reports renewed activity on the part of the Japanese on the Kupelkow front, over two hundred shells being. fired into Nantiehmen, few miles inside Kupeikow, and the Chinese front line.

The Japanese, however, made no attempt to advance.

-Renter.

SPEED FLYING RECORDS

:

PERSIA'S TRADE WITH SOVIET

Discontent With Present Treaty.

•

TEHERAN CONFERENCE

Teheran, To-day-

An Economic Conference has been established by the Persian [Government for a dally review of the Persian-Soviet trade relations. The Minister of Posts and Tele- graphs, presiding yesterday, deciar- ed that the Persian Government are discontented with the present Persian-Soviet Trade

and suggested various modifications whereupon leading merchants, met to await the result of the propos ed cancellation of the Treaty. Guser, 10 years' imprisonment..

The Conference is now discusa Lobanov, 10 years' imprisonment. Bukoruchvin, 10 years' imprisonment,

Milan, To-daying the merchants' proposal-Reu- 8. years' imprisonment.

Colonel Bernasconi, head of the ter Yaris s Sokolov,

It was officially announced here but "We must awalt the official high speed flying school at Desen- 8 years' imprisonment.. Kotiyareysky, 8 years' imprisonment. Krasheaninkov, 5 years imprison at 3 am, that a meeting of the statement on the considered policy zano, Lake Garda, is reported to

Privy Council has been summoned of the Government." Beuter Krashennikov, & years' imprison for this morning at Windsor Castle

The Russian accused were sen- tensed as follows

Oleinok, 3 years" imprisonment.. Lebodov, 2 years' imprisonment. Mademoiselle Kutosova, 18 months

imprisonment. Blevert was, acquitted,

Awaiting The Verdict.

GARDS, DICE, BOOKS AND SUPPER, IN THE COURT,

The "Daily Mirror" states that the interruption of trade relations London, Later.will not satisfy the British public,

for the purpose of authoring proclamation under the Russian Goods Import Prohibition Act Reuter

Monkhouse said that he did not probable know who would represent Metro-

MACDONALD & THORNTON TO

· GO TO LUBIANKA PRISON. politan Vickers in Russia after his departure, but there was no res

Moscow, Later. son to suppose that the trial would

Only Thornton and Macdonald affect the business between his

are now under arrest. firm and the 'Soviet. Meanwhile,

They will be taken to Lub business is being carried, on 24 At, 11:30 pm. last night the prison.-Reuter, usual, pending instructions, by Judges had been considering”? the otne men.

verdict for five hours in a room ad- The question of an appeal by the joining the Court Hundreds of pans |Russian employees is being con- [aps were pacing, anxiously, fel, sidered but is not yet devided, to and fro outside the door waiting,

The deported men and Gregory to rush-in when the electric-bell are- dus in London in three days' ring.

Colorado Kid (Gordon Richards),

Clogheen (Graves),"

Wild Bon (Nicoll),

Epicure (Weston),

„Barrage(WA\Rickaby}}

Sandfeld (Smith).

"Flange (Dines).-9;

Leicester Lane (Evans),

time and the first thing they will Cavitre sandwiches, and other

sumed at the buffet in the Court rivad.

The Cheerful "Abbot, (Cifford do will be to interview Metropoli- Russlar licacies were being con;

Richards)

· Bon Boldat-(Ganty);20

tan Vickers-Router.

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fard deing and reading bó

Company's Confidence In Employees.

VICTIMS OF TRAVESTY OF

JUSTICE."

London, "To-day, official statement Issued by Metropollian Vickers Jast night, declares that Com pany will to-day cousider the position arising from the judg-

Italian Pilot's New Record.

700 KILOMETRES AN HOUR.

have claimed to have attained a speed of over 700 kilometres par hour in a new plane.

The report is not yet confirmed. Beuter:Y

Warrant Officer Aggelo captured the world's air speed record for Italy on April 10 when he attain- ed a speed of 487.5 miles per hour at Lake Garda. He flew five times over the straight Course at an aver- age of 682.408 kilometres per hour and on one lep attained a maxi- mum speed of 692.529 kilometres per hour.

the meantime the Company affirms their complete confidence duced at the trial, or the validity of

the members of the staff, whom, the alleged confessions

they

ctims of At the moment the

esty of Justice, and who one concer for the

are known to the Company to bed, and as '2000. men of the highest integrity.pn ntati

The Directors of Metropolita

Zaith

declare that they haves

statemen

PERSIAN OIL DISPUTE

Hopeful Prospects For Agreement.

NEGOTIATIONS OPENED

Teheran, To-day. The negotiations between Bir John Cadman, Chairman of the Plo-Persian Oil Com- and the Persian Gov- for the renewal

pany