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DARING GANG

ROBBERY AT LYRIC THEATRE

SENSATIONAL NEW

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1988.

WORLD SWIMMING STOP PRESS

RECORD

Aarhuse, To-day-

was es-

A sensational new world's swim- Shanghai, To-day. ming. record for women

tablished yesterday in this seaport What is described

town when Miss Cor Kint, of Hol- one of the most daring land, clipped 15 9-10 secs of the robberies in recent times, 200 Metres mark standing to the credit of Miss Jopy Waalberg; also was staged in Shanghai of Holland, covering the distance-

last night.

in 2 mins. 41 secs. which is only 3 the 3-5 secs. off the men's record, held by K. Kasley, of the United States. per-

-Reuter

walked into Three men Lyric Theatre while the formance was going on, and rob- bed the management of $3,000 in cash without interrupting the the performance and without audience knowing that anything had happened.

The four employees in the till so taken by surprise

room were

that they made no outery.

LEISURELY THEFT

The robbers,

drawing

guns.

calmly bound and gagged the men, forced one of them to open the safe and then leisurely walked

away.

It was not far some half an hour. when the theatre's private detec- tive entered the till room, that- the crime was discovered, by which time the robbers were far away.- Reuter.

IRON GUARD ARRESTS IN RUMANIA

Bucharest, To-day. M. Cordreanu, leader of the Rumanian Fascist Iron Guard, was arrested yesterday with 200 cf his followers.

The arrest followed discovery of a plot to march on Bucharest. zs well as plans for a coup d'etat. -Reuter.

TO BE TRIED

An official communique declares that all those arrested, who were

GLIDING RECORD found in possession of arms, are to

Moscow, To-day.

be tried, presumably before the mi- litary courts as the country is stil!

A new record for gliders is claim-under martial law.

ed by the Soviet fiyer, Makarov, Only a small group of agitators who remained aloft for 19 hours was involved, the masses of thej

Shanghai, To-day. John Gunther, the American journalist and author of "In- side Europe," interviewed by the "China Press," stated that the German advisers to the Chinese armies in Hankow are confident of China's victory.

ultimate

Mr. Gunther added that the Japanese army is manifestly. superior to the Chinese in me- chanical weapons, but felt that China is better fitted for pro- tracted hostilities.

- These advisers have already trained 31 divisions since the war broke out, each consisting of from 12,000 to 15,000 men, who are already in the field

Mr. Gunther described Han- kow as the most fascinating. city: he had visited.

He expressed the opinion that the new Chinese union was forced upon a people who for centuries had been separated.

8 minutes in a two-seater machine people remaining calm and attend-Even more marked than in carrying a passenger.-Reuter.

ing to their work-Reuter.

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The new armies were being. slowly but surely integrated on a national basis as soldiers from many provinces are fighting side by side against Japan.

Hankow was the surprisingly complete absence of defeatism in Canton, where from the highest Government officials to the lowest street hawkers, all were confident and firm and were thinking along exactly the same lines where the hos- tilities are concerned. -

Perhaps the most striking thing of all to him, said Mr. Gunther, was the sight of high members of the German Army and Soviet aviators work- ing side by side, their national hatreds and antipathies forgot- ten in their overriding desire to help guide China's fortunes. --Reuter.

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It is alleged that M. Codre the arrested Rumanian Fascist leader, planned to es÷ tablish a Nazi dictatorship. The police found evidence of the existence of Iron Guard. cells in various factories, and hold a circular letter written by M. Codreanu to local lead- ers of the Iron Guard all over Rumania in which he makes bitter attacks on the Govern- ment and the Prime Minister. "Can you put up any longer with these old ghosts; these - old men with their brains dried up? We shall no longer make requests. We shall simply take what belongs to us says the letter, which also included or- ders to Iron Guard legionaries to obtain new uniforms and· weapons and await the right moment for a march on Buch- arest modelled on Mussolini's March on Rome. Another' cir- cular letter to the legionaries quotes the Nazi Horst Wessel song, and exhorts them to "seize weapons, axes, scythes and cut the dogs down.” The police have been watching M. Codreanu for some months. He was arrested after discovery of letters signed by him among - the belongings of four monks. It is believed the Government is now determined to deal. drastically with the Iron Guard and will possibly send M. Codreanu to Snake Island, the *barren rock. in the Black Sea

where political offenders confined. Reuter.

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