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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1988.

SPANISH CHEKA CHARGE

UNFOUNDED

ITALIAN PAPER REBUKES THE

VATICAN London, To-day.

Spain and China figured largely | at Commons question-time.

Rome, To-day.

A reply to the Pope's recent Asked if he was aware that attack on the swastika on May 4, branches of the Russian Cheka..for is made in Mussolini's newspaper a considerable time had been in "Popolo d'Italia.” effective control not only in the Bar- The paper says: “We should like celona and Valencia Government's to say to the Father of all us courts and prisons, but among the Catholics that it is very dangerous international and Republic troops on to speak of the Cross of Christ and the Government side in Spain, the to wave it above as if it is a Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs weapon, and then find oneself in said that the information in his the threatening grinning company possession did not confirm the state-of Masonic moneylenders and Bol- ments in the question:

sheviks without even having in one's hand a whip with which to drive them from the temple of God, The Prime Minister was asked if and to remain alone desperately he was aware of the recent declara-alone, praying, praying, praying." tion of policy by the Spanish Prime--Reuter. Minister, Senor Negrin, and if the Government would seek to secure peace in Spain on the basis of such terms.

BOYS OF 14

Mr. Chamberlain said he had seen TO JOIN NEW

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the declaration and regarding second part of the question, Government was prepared at time at the request of either of the contending parties to lend its offices with a view to securing an agree- ment for a settlement of the con- flict.

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It was not in accordance with the Government's policy to impose settlement on either side. Questions were also answered regarding claims for compensation from the Spanish Nationalist authorities and from the Japanese Government. British Wireless.

'CHAIR' FAILED:

MAN GOES MAD

AIR FORCE

Britain is to enlist boys front fourteen to eighteen to defend the nation in the air.

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Within a few weeks a recruiting scheme will be begun for an air defence cadet corps of 20,000 boys.

All boys, from errand boys to secondary schoolboys, will be eligible. Public schoolboys are trained by their O.T.C.'s. R.A.F. pilots, with modern ground equipment and the use of the country's finest 'planes, will train the recruits, who will receive. instruction in air-raid precaution duties, aircraft engineering and meteorology.

After one or two years of this training the boys will take the air with experienced pilots and learn how to fly.

Air Commodore J. A. Chamier,

New York, April 29. one of the Air League of the Bri- Convicted murderer, John tish Empire officials, who outlined Vaughan, thirty-seven years old, the scheme "said: who escaped electrocution last Friday when the electric chair broke-down, went mad to-day as he waited to be led a second time to his execution at mid-night. [7 a.m. Friday, London_time].

"Every town of 50,000 inhabi- tants_and_over_will-have-at-least- one unit consisting of air cadets in uniform.

"We feel sure we shall have no difficulty in raising £100,000 for the To his wife and fifteen-year-floating of a central fund." old daughter who went again to Huntsville Prison, Texas, to bid electric chair when the him farewell, he shouted, "They failed. can't execute me. I'm already dead."

Then he sank on his knees and prayed.

Banks prays that "miracle" will save them.

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The whole State of Texas is aroused to sympathy for the prisoners.

Praying composedly in the next cell was negro preacher Johnie At the prison, Warden Waid Banks, who was waiting last assured inquirers there would be: Friday to follow Vaughan to the 'no hitch to the execution to-night.

LAST DEVIL'S ISLAND WOMAN WED CONVICT

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Paris, April 28. a life sentence for murder. Marie Bartet, last surviving| The couple had two children, but woman convict on Devil's Island- they died of fever. Shortly after women are now no longer sent to their deaths, her husband the dreaded French penal settle-taken ill with fever and died also. ment in French Guiana-has died. This was her second marriage.- at the age of seventy-six.

She was first married when she was- She was sent to Devil's Island fifteen years old to a sailor at fifty years ago when she was Bordeaux. He died when she was twenty-six years old, after being twenty. convicted four times for theft.

After the death of her Arab

In 1999, after she had spent husband, she lived on alone in her twenty-one years on the island, she little cottage on the island, a small, married, with the consent of the white-haired woman. She has authorities, an Arab convict named been buried in the convicts' come-- Lakdar Ben Youcef, who was doing tery.