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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 5, 1988.

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POLISH PLOT TO KILL

MARSHAL

VOROSHILOFF

Remarkable New Allegation In Treason Trial

WHITE RUSSIA TO

HAVE BECOME POLISH

PROTECTORATE

Moscow, To-day.

The story of a plot to assassinate Marshal Voroshi- lov, Commissar for Defence, in 1936, was told by Sharangovitch, former president of the So- viet White Russian Republic, at the treason trial yesterday.

He said that Marshal Voroshilov attended the man-

RIBBENTROP'S MADAME CHIANG

LONDON VISIT

London, To-day.

Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, is coming to London on Tuesday.

Purpose of the visit is mainly for leave taking but. possibly he will carry the discussions a step further with British officials, Reuter.

EMBEZZLEMENT

oeuvres in the White Russian Republic, and his CHARGES IN

death was planned by White Russian Fascists under instructions from Rightists and the Po- BELGIUM lish intelligence service, by which Sharango- vitch said he was recruited in 1921 while he was a prisoner in Moscow and was sent to Soviet Russia.

Their organisation set itself the task of overthrow- ing Soviet power, separating the White Russian Republic from the Soviets and creating a White Russian bourgeois state under Polish protectorate.

Rosengcltz, former charge d'af- faires in London, testifying, de- scribed an alleged plot in May last year to seize the Kremlin, kill the Soviet leaders and gain control of the Ogpu

MAY DAY PUTSCH Rosengoltz said that Marshai Tukhachevsky, Chief of the Gener- al Staff, who with seven generals was executed on June '11 last year,

NEW ZEALAND

PLANNING MONOPOLY

Brussels, To-day. Embezzlement estimated at 11,- |000,000 francs by employees of the branch of the Banque de la Societe Generale has been uncovered.

RUMOUR RIDICULED

Hankow, To-day.

That Madame Chiang Kai-shek decided to resign her post as Chairman of the Aeronautical Affairs Commission because of the increasing opposition of the Soviet pilots at present in China is energetically denied by official quarters.

It is declared that these reports, which were recently circulated, are not only untrue but absurd k

Madame Chiang has resigned, it is stated, because she was over- burdened with other duties and has transferred her office, which is equal to that of Air Minister, to her brother, Mr. T. V. Soong.

Rumours that Madame Chiang is at variance with Soviet advisers and pilots are groundless is in- The director, several cashiers dicated, it is declared, by the fact and other members of the staff as that she will continue as a mem- well as the director of the "Credit ber of the Commission. Interprovincial" have been arrest Ocean.

ed.

¡ Offenders are said to have utilis-

lations. Further arrests are ex- pected-Trans-Ocean.

ed the money for fraudulent specu- LORD PERTH

SEES KING

London, To-day.

Lord Perth, the British Ambas- Dr. Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, sador to Rome, who is in London M.C., M.D. (Lond), B. S. (Lond.), to receive instructions for the com F.R.CP., (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.),ing Anglo-Italian conversations, had D.T.M. and HL (Lond) DPH. an audience of the King at Bucking- (Camb.), Barrister-at-Law, Gray's ham Palace yesterday morning,

The Ambassador remained" with The New Zealand Government Inn, has assumed his appointment assured him of the support of the is debating a bill for state mono- as Director of Medical Services, His Majesty for more than an hour. military for a putsch on May Day. poly of the iron and steel indus- with effect from 28th January, Lord Perth is returning to

The putsch did not materialise

Wellington, To-day.

and Tukhachevsky was transferretry in the country.

to the Volga region on May 10.- Reuter.

KING CAROL TO PAY STATE VISIT TO LONDON

London, To-day. King Carol of Rumania is pay: ing a state visit to London

Management will be in the hands

of trade commissioners under 2 Cabinet Minister.

It is stated that Government con- trol of the industry will increase production to 85,000 tons of finish- ed steel after the first year, but New Zealand will still require to import 75,000 tons from Britain and Aus- tralia-Reuter.

ASSISTED

March 22, and is staying in the IMMIGRATION

British capital three days.

The Duke of Gloucester will wel- come King Carol at Folkestone and will travel to London with him by train.

TO AUSTRALIA

Canberra, To-day.

At the London terminus, King The Australian Cabinet has decid- George will be present on the plated to resume the system of assisted form to welcome the Rumanian immigration from Britain, abolish monarchReuter.

ed some years ago Reuter.

It is notified that at the expir- His Excellency the Governor has ation of three months the name of been pleased to approve the follow- the Tin Cheong Banking Company, ing promotion in the Hong Kong Limited, will, unless cause is Volunteer Defence Corps, with ef- shown to the contrary, be struck fect from 1st March, 1938: Lieu- off the register and the company tenant Frederick Bunje, MRCS, will be dissolved.

LR.C.P., to be Captain.

His Excellency the Governor has Douglas James Valentine, M.C., appointed Mr. David Kelvin Stark M.B., B.S. (Lond), M.P.C.S. (Eng.),] to act as Accountant-General, with LR.C.P. (Lond), DPH, D.T.M. effect from the 7th March, 1988, and H. (Eng), resumed duty as doring the absence on leave of Mr. Deputy Director of Medical Ser- Thomas Black.

ivices on 3rd March, 1988.

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