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£3 FINE FOR MRS.

VAN DER ELST·

Scenes At Ruxton Execution

MISJUDGED TEMPER OF CROWD

CENTENARY IN ROME

Bersaglieri Corps Celebrate

-CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Rome, To-day.

SUICIDE PACT

THAT FAILED

Gas, Poison And Fall Over Cliff

CONVENT FOR GIRL, PRISON FOR MAN

About 40,000 soldiers of the well-known Bersaglieri Corps Attempts by, a young couple assembled in Rome yesterday for to commit suicide together, first the first centenary celebrations of by gas and poison and then by! the foundation the regiment. driving a' car over a cliff, were

After a march-past before described at Newcastle Signor Mussolini at the War month.

The Manchester stipendiary magistrate, Mr. J. Wellesley Orr, fined Mrs. Violet van der Elst at Manchester last month, for

last fusing to stop her car during the scenes after the execution of Dr. Ruxton at Strangeways Prison.

Ministry and a parade in boncur Morris Lambert, aged 20. of Mr. Wellesley Orr said: "I cannot help thinking she had of the King on the square in front Jesmond, Newcastle, was come there misjudging the temper of the Quirinal, the troops lined tenced to three months' im

Venezia. prisonment; Mary Grace, aged] of the crowd, who were indignant up before the Palazzo at the murder of which Ruxton had where Signor Mussolini, wearing 17, a domestic servant,

the uniform of the Corps, appear!placed on probation bees convicted.

der Elst alleging behaving in a BLACKSHIRTS IN

ser-

for that she

WES two

"It had very little sympathyed on the balcony to deliver a years on condition with him and consequently the short speech-Trans-Oceap Ser- spent the period in a convent.

They pleaded

tai guilty Įvice. atmosphere was very strong.”

attempting to commit suicide. Four charges against Mrs. van

There was a second charge of taking away a car without the bert was further charged with driving without an policy.

manner whereby a breach of the

peace might have been occasioned

obstruction, driving in a manner

likely to endanger life and limb

and driving without reasonable consideration of other road users, were dismissed

Hostile Growd

Mr. G. M. Fearnley, prosecuting,

OXFORD CLASH owner's permission, and Lam-

Two Undergraduates Arrested

FREE FIGHT IN HALL

Throughout

~

the

insurance

hearing

Lambert lay on a stretcher in court.

Sgt. Patterson read-a state-

said that Mrs. van der Elst, who A free fight in the middle of ment which, he said, Grace had Sir Oswald made to him. It declared that was at the prison to demous-the hall marked trate against the death sentence, Mosley's meeting at the Carfax she and Lambert had been drove a car, accompanied by two Assembly Rooms, Oxford, last keeping company. Tans equipped with loud speakers. night. The hall was crowded,

Trouble At Home

On April 17 he went to the

At one time the crowd became and a large contingent of Black- house where she was employed

hostile towards her and a police shirts was present. cordon had to be placed around the car.

Sir Oswald made it clear and said there had been some early in the meeting that dis trouble at home, adding: “You Later she refused to move and turbers would be turned out may have a child and if so it continued: said, "Arrest me

The statement I am no com-he added they would be taken will be a fix for us-bath."

to the door peacefully. moner, you know," "

"We agreed to commit suicide. car When he made references to: Insptr. M. Wood said the was driven up behind a stationary Jewish finance in the Socialist My employer and his wife were van and he was struck on the party there was considerable away We went into the nur- sery, turned on the gas fire and It did not knee. Mrs. van de Elst was even-dissent.

lay down by it. tually forcibly removed from the

seem to have much effect. driving seat.

"Then I found he was uncon-i scious and took him downstairs land gave him a hot drink and A little later a young man jhe revived.

were

Sir Oswald commented

undergraduates young

He repeated.

that

his warning.

He did not know she had been causing trouble. bearily bruised as a result

"Not Fit To Be Mothers"

or

three

Supt., William Page remarked who was asking questions was "I found a bottle, thought it that one of the things Mrs. van approached by two der Eist said to the crowd was: Blackshirts. A party of 20 "Some of your women are not fit Blackshirts then went down the centre of the hall. People intervened, and in a few seconds there was a fight.

to be mothers."

"After she saw we were going to arrest her she was exceptionally nice," he added.

Mrs. van der Elst, in evidence, declared that she did not see the one inspector's signal to stop. She the

was poison, and drank it. Then we agreed to go in my em- ployer's car over Cragbill Dene and Lambert drove me there.

"While we were looking about in the dark Lambert called my Steel Chairs Thrown

name. He had fallen down the Steel chairs were thrown, and cliff into a stream at the bot-

woman was hurt. During tom.

disturbance Sir Oswald

'.

"His head was bleeding and

did not hit him. She had been Mosley called on his Blackshirts he could not drive the car. We driving for 25 years, and

never had her licence. endorsed.

had to "Stand fast."

met a policeman and Lambert There were number of told him he had had an acci-

She denied causing obstruction. police in the hall, and after five dent." She added that one officer push-or ten minutes they restored **The policeman had Two undergraduates taken to the infirmary."

ed her in the side either with his order.

foot or a baton and another put were arrested. his arm round her throat.

him

Three Blackshirts were inPOST OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS Dr. Alexander Cannon, of Lon-jured. One had a head wound.

FOR TO-MORROW don, said he saw Mra van der He was removed to hospital in A second was Elst on the following day. She an ambulance. was extremely shocked and there taken in a private car for medi- were two bruises on her hip. Hejcal treatment. suggested they were due to an acti of violence.

MURDER OF A MOTHER Young Man Charged In Ireland

Dublin-During the resumed of the hearing here last month charge against Edward Preston Ball, aged 20, of murdering his

The General Post Office, Kow- loon Central Post Office, and the

An undergraduate, Mr. other Branch Post Offices will bel Robert Cook, of Oriel, said that open to-morrow from 9 am to 10! he saw Mr. Basil Murray, a son am There will be one collection from the pillar boxes as on Sun- Prof. Gilbert Murray, beneath two Blackshirts.

of

days, one delivery of ordinary andĮ

"I pulled one of them off, and registered correspondence at 12-1 then I got a blow in the face,"30 pm. The Money Order Office

will be entirely closed. be declared

During the scuffle Mr. Philip Toynbee, son of Prof. Arnold

Toynbee, was injured by falling thought implies a thinker." on to a chair.

Acts Of Creation

The evidence of physical science supported "the conception that the

mother, it was stated that Ball SCIENTIST AND physical universe had a beginning

had threatened to commit suicide! by taking aspirin, and

that his

father, Dr. Preston Ball, a well-

IDEA OF GOD

Icon Dublin nerve specialist, had World Not A "Happy this running down which is thus

at one time proposed that he

should be placed in a mental home.

Mrs. Lavena Ball, aged 54, dis-!

house ** Booterstown, Co. Dublin. on February 17, and her body has not been found.

appeared from her

WEATHER REPORT

Accident"

ERUPTION DENIAL BY SIR A. FLEMING

Sir

Ambrose Fleming.

in acts of creation, and was not self-produced or infinite in past) duration. Also that, left to itself, it will have an end. Moreover,

disclosed is the very opposite of any evolation, in the sense of a spontaneous advance.

2

“It gives denial to any assertion that the universe is the result of the a set of happy accidents' or freaks Ball, in an alleged statement, famous octogenarian scientist, and or casual combinations, or any says she committed suicide and champion of religious opinion mode of operations which dispenses that he, to save the family name, against belief in determinism and with the necessity for belief in a

evolution, returned to the attack creation, and therefore in put the body in the sea.

in his annual presidential address creator." last month to the Victoria In- The presence in Nature of so stitute.

many phenomena requiring intel- The title of his address was ligence for their appreciation im-| Pressure is now highest in the

a kindred intelligence to Pacific to the east of the Bonins("Some Philosophical Conceptions plied it remains relatively low over of Modern Physical Science and produce them.

Relation to Religions No Perfect Continuity China generally. South and their

"The fundamental underlying south-east, winds, moderate; fair, Thought." After an exposition in with local showers, was the fore- simple language of the main dis-idea of evolution is that of per cast for to-day, as issued by the coveries in recent years in radia- fectly continuous change by in- Royal Observatory this morning. tion, the structure of matter, finitely small stepe. But now the radio-activity and astronomy. Sir discoveries of physics everywhere Ambrose continued:

contradict this assumption of per- "The great modern accumulation feet continuity in Nature.”

described the A crop of benamas has been of facts regarding the presence of Sir Ambrose grown in a exservatory at South number, weight and measure in theory that, at same time, living Shields. Three trees have yield-the physical world have, in the matter as "pure assumption and opinion of many persons, destroy contradicted by experimental ed nearly 600 bananas.

ed the old materialism, and pre-evidence not easily refuted." Captain Milne, Stat Captain, who sented the miverse to us rather "But if it has not been so pro- has been on a duty tour of the as a thought than a thing, and diced," he concinded Fit shows an unbridget map which is incon Northern Command recently, return- jed to Hong Kong, yesterday, (Continued at foot of next Col)istent with evolution.”

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