1939-01-19 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 19, 1989.

Seven Men Appear At Bow-St. Following Bombing Outrages

I.R.A. Proclamation Found In Possession -

CANADA TO

BEGIN PLANE

MANUFACTURE

IN FEW WEEKS

Montreal, To-day.

SCOTLAND YARD ANGLO-GERMAN

HUNT FOR SIX TRADE OTHER SUSPECTS DISCUSSIONS

London, To-day.

Several unusual features of procedure accom- panied at Bow Street yesterday the appearance of seven men arrested in and around London.

LONDON, TO-DAY. ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE RE-

LATIONS WILL BE DISCUSSED

Lewis Ord, the Canadian air The charges were not disclosed, and the first three AT AN EARLY MEETING OF men were brought in separately. No one was THE FEDERATION OF BRITISH allowed in court until the previous one had left. After this the batch of three was heard together.

A rifle and some ammunition on Sunday without stating their was produced to connect some of destination.

expert, announced on his return from England yesterday that work on manufacturing bombers in Canada for the Royal Air Force would start in a few weeks and would continue throughout the pre- sent year and 1940.

Mr. Ord considered it probable that the bombers would be flown to England.--Reuter.

INDUSTRIES AND THE REICHS-

GRUPPE INDUSTRIEL.

It is announced that the Grand

the cases, and evidence was given Meanwhile police guards have Council of the F.B.I., has approv- of arms and ammunition being been posted outside the London re-ed the suggestion that "official dis- found on the premises of some of the accused.

All were remanded in custody. The charges, revealed later, show that three men were charged with unlawful posses- sion of arms and ammunition, and the others were charged

SHAW'S "GENEVA" with possession of explosives.

AT GENEVA

Geneva will be the first city on the Continent to produce Bernard Shaw's "Geneva,"

The Geneva English Drama So- ciety, which is an amateur interna- tional body producing plays in Eng- lish (and in American) is to have the honour of interpreting to an in- ternational audience Shaw's shrewd hits at the international institutions from which a large number of the cast will be drawn.

It is confidently expected that Geneva will rise to the occasion, if only because it has before now proved that it has the faculty (by no means universal) of laughing

itself.

at

sidence of the Duke of Abercorn, cussions should be held to facilitate is expected to arrive in Governor of Northern Ireland, who negotiations between individual in-

London dustries in Britain and Germany. shortly. Trans-Ocean.

ANOTHER BIRMINGHAM .

The Nazi organisation has been informed, and an arranged meet-

ng is being considered.

EXPLOSION

London, To-day.

The Council made the

decision

The charges also show that By a new bomb explosion near yesterday after receiving a report articles found in the possession | Birmingham yesterday, another on informal conversations held of three of the men included pylon carrying a high tension cable with representatives of the Reichs- copies of the recent Irish Re-was damaged.

Gruppe before Christmas.—Reuter. publican Army proclamation. Reuter.

SCOTLAND YARD CLUES

London, To-day.

London newspapers report that two newspaper sellers have in- formed the police that they over- heard two Irishmen saying: "All Scotland Yard is now in pos- London is going to be blown up." session of clues which will enable them to apprehend the persons Yard and were able to give a com- They were questioned at Scotland who committed the bomb out-plete description of the two men.— rages in various parts of the country.

Following police raids in parts of London where there are large sec- tions of Irish people, suspicion has been narrowed down until it rests

whom on six persons all of known to be members of the Irish Republican Army.

are

A description of these men have been transmitted to police stations throughout the country.

PORTS WATCHED Special observation is being main- tained at ports as it is presumed

Trans-Ocean.

PRECAUTIONS IN LONDON NOT RELAXED

London, To-day,

FRENCH CABINET APPROVES BONNET POLICY

Paris, To-day. The meeting of the French Police are actively pursuing in- Cabinet, which lasted two and a quiries regarding the series of ex- half hours, dealt exclusively with of the Foreign plosions which have occurred dur- the statement ing the past two days, and in Lon-Minister, M. Georges Bonnet, on don special precautions are being the international situation, taken to guard against further in- It is understood that unanimous cidents.

agreement was reached on all

'THE OFFICER IN THE that the suspects will attempt Bow Street Police Court yesterday main lines of the speech which M.

TOWER' WROTE A POEM TO THIS BRIDE

ex-

A girl whose voice inspired Lieutenant Norman Baillie-Stewart -the "Officer in the Tower" to write a poem which he dedicated to her, has been married at Chatham.

She was Miss Marjorie Joan Stre- ten, of New-road, Chatham, who married Mr. George Arthur Ward, of the Mercantile. Marine, at St. John's Church, Chatham.

When Baillie-Stewart was in Maidstone Gaol serving a five-years sentence for imparting military secrets to a foreign Power, Miss Streten took part in a prison con- cert.

Afterwards, in the solitude of his cell, Baillie-Stewart wrote a poem which he called "The Voice."

The poem was one of several which Baillie-Stewart wrote while in prison, and which he later published.

get across to Ireland.

The seven men who were arrest-points. toled and who appeared separately at| Approval was also given to the

charges, Bonnet will make in the Chamber for a week.-Bri- of Deputies, probably to-day.

Reuter.

on the afternoon It is known that four of suspects put up at a small London were remanded hotel during the weekend and left Itish Wireless.

firearms

Spectators at the U.S.R.C. last week-end. In front row, seated, can be seen Mr. Justice Lindsell and

Brigadier Thomson,