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AGAINST

LIFE OF STALIN

YAGODA TO GO ON TRIAL SHORTLY

Moscow.

The trial of the former chief of the G.P.U. and

Menus in German restaurants Commissar for Communications, M. G. G. Yagoda, are to be curtailed in future, ac-

cording to an official order an-is expected to start at the end of May.

nounced to the meeting of licens-

ed victuallers here yesterday.

In future, restaurants and hotels

The indictment, which was made public yester-

will be allowed to offer customers day, contains criminal as well as political charges. the choice of only six soups and twenty meat dishes.

The restriction will not apply to fish, sausages, game, poultry, sweets or vegetables.

The action follows a recent order to hotel and restaurant proprietors not to offer luxuries to their guests.

-Trans-Ocean.

FAMOUS SOLDIER

DEAD

Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Austin

The criminal charges are that accused

Organised a plot against the life of Stalin,

Attempted to free Pistakov and Sokolnikoff, two Trotskyites, from prison,

NEW LAMP OF

THE FUTURE Mercury Vapour Bulb Perfected

Participated in a plot of high

Berlin, To-day, army officers against Marshal

Mercury vapour lamps are ex- Voroshilov, the Commissar for War,

pected to replace shortly the pre- Prepared anti-Soviet propaganda sent electric light bulb, as the re- for distribution among the army,sult of a long series of experiments and

in Germany.

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1,350 ABYSSINIAN FUGITIVES

Permanent Camp To

Be Provided

London, To-day. Altogether 1,350 Abyssinian re- fugees are at present in British Somaliland, declared a government spokesman during question time în the House of Commons yesterday.

Most of the fugitives are accom- modated in a provisional camp at Borana, and a camp of a more per- manent character is being prepared for them at Berbera. -Trans- Ocean.

Shanghai Strike Settled

Shanghai, To-day. The strike of Ford taxi cab drivers has been settled and the men are expected to return to work

to-morrow:

Main disadvantage of the mer- London, To-day. Had knowledge of the plot to as- The death occurred to-day of sassinate Stalin's closest friend, cury vapour lamp has always been

Sir Herbert Kirov, in 1934.

its ghostly green] phosphorescent Brigadier-General

The company, which operates light, but this has been overcome.

the largest taxi service in Shang- Henry Austin, R.E., at the age of

Hitherto it has only been used hai, agreed to reduce the number 69.

for lighting streets and for electric of men dismissed from 30 to seven, complied signs. Now it may shortly be used and the strikers have in every household. Trans-Ocean. with the proposal. Reuter.

Yagoda, it is stated, generally but Educated at Clifton and Wool-admits the criminal offences

denies the political wich, the late Brigadier-General | vigorously Austin entered the Army in 1887 charges. and reached the rank of captain

the same year.

He saw service in India till 1891,

when he went to Uganda for rail-

PLANNED FLIGHT

The indictment further states way survey work. He served in that Yagóda planned to escape to via Manchuria the Waziristan campaign of 1894- the United States 1895 and in Uganda two years lat-when he was on a projected inspec- er, and conducted two survey ex- tion tour of the Siberian area. peditions on the border of Abys- Through a Greek citizen, he had

deposited a considerable He was awarded the Royal Geo- money in a Philadelphia bank, and graphical Society's Cuthbert Peek had placed jewels, foreign ex- grant in 1906. From 1909 to 1910 change and other valuables in safe he was connected with the opera deposit with the same bank. tions in the Persian Gulf for the suppression of gun-running.

sinia.

sum of

ART TREASURES STOLEN

of

In 1911 he was promoted Brevet Lieut. Colonel în India, where he M. Yagoda is also accused was made Commandant of the having smuggled a great number of the Quetta Staff College in 1915.

of famous paintings out

After war service in Mesopota-country and selling them to foreign mia he retired in 1920. He had se- art dealers. veral publications to his credit, in- cluding A Scamper through

Far East."--Reuter.

More Cloudy. Weather

the

The Royal Observatory_reports that the anti-cyclone has moved in- to the Sea of Japan, the depression is situated in the Pacific

of Hokkaido.

Local forecast derate; cloudy.

A number of famous old masters, including several Rembrandts, had disappeared from an art exhibition in Moscow recently, and the thefts had been

close fos traced to Yagoda and his

M. Steiger, chairman

of the State Art Committee, who is also under arrest.

..

The indictment charges that the sealed the east stolen art treasures were

escaped with the G.P.U. seal and so inspection at the frontier.-—Trans-

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