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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 9, 1989.
WOMAN SWIMS IN ICY WATER TO ESCAPE INTO IRUN
Bayonne, To-day.
the arrival of her identity papers
VERY EXPENSIVE
Mary Cronin, a thirty-nine-from Ireland, year-o'd Irish woman who tried to enter Spain by the interna- According to the report of the tional bridge but was
turned French policeman guarding her she pack by French guards, dived was "very expensive" for the into the River Bidasson on French Treasury, as she "insisted Christmas Day, it was revealed on having a real English breakfast yesterday, and swam in the fey every morning and tea and toast water from Hendaye to Irun. and marmalade in the afternoon.”
She is well known to the French When Mary Cronin was told that and Spanish police, was released her identity papers had arrived from Bayonne prison-"The Villa from Cork she dodged her body- Chagrin"-on December 11 after guard and ran to the international serving a six months' sentence for bridge. failing to obey in expulsion order from France.
Cronin was expelled because she had no identity papers.
After her release she lived in an hotel at Hendaye at the expense of the French Government, pending
MANY SHOT IN PIRATE ATTACK ON GERMAN STEAMER
Shanghai, To-day.
The guards would not let her pass so she jumped into the river. French and Spanish soldiers watch- ed her swim across in perfect style.
Unaware of her
the escape French authorities and the Eire Minister at St. Jean de Luz paid her railway fare and bought her passage to Ireland.
She is now believed to be stay- ing with friends in a small village in Franco Spain near Irun.
NIEMOELLER NOT TO BE RELEASED
Terms Rejected
The hopes held in some quarters The German steamer, Hansa, that Pastor Niemoeller, leader of was attacked yesterday on the the Confessional Opposition lower Yangtze near Woosung by Church, might be released at the Chinese pirates, who, approaching beginning of this month from the the steamer on several junks, and opened fire, killing five Chinese passengers and wounding several others.
|Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he has been confined since his trial and virtual acquittal last March, have now been finally dis- appointed. pirates The aged Field-Marshal von which, Mackensen, is known to have in- reached tervened on his behalf with Herr
The German steamer returned the fire, preventing the from boarding the ship speeding up, escaped and Shanghai last evening. Ocean.
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BATTLESHIP PUT INTO SERVICE
Wilhelmshaven, To-day.`
The 26,000 ton battleship Scharnhorst was officially put into service to-day.
The Scharnhorst was launched on October 83, 1986 and is the first German battleship to be built since the war. It carries nine 11 inch guns and four planes.
Numerous representatives of the defence State Nazi Party and forces took part in to-day's cere- mony.-Reuter.
Hitler. The question was referred to Herr Himmler, chief of police, and Herr Kerrl, Minister for |Ecclesiastical Affairs, who express- ed themselves 'ready to release Pastor Niemoeller, but only terms.
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These conditions were that the Pastor should not return to his parish in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem, that he should never preach again, and that he should stay outside Berlin-for the next six months to avoid publicity.
The Pastor refused without hesitation. He declared that his call to preach came from God and not from the State authorities and that he must obey the voice of God
and not of men.
QUICK WORK BY CAMERA FAN
Arrest of Motor Car Thief
Quick work by a camera fan in Roxbury, Mass, (U.S. A.), brought about the arrest and Excellency Sir Geoffry conviction of a motor car thief, Northcote, K.C.M.G., has consented whose picture was snapped be- to distribute La Salle College prizes fore he escaped.
His
in the College Hall on Monday, A stolen car in which two men January 16, at 4.80 p.m.
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