1939-02-18 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 18, 1939

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Extraordinary Soviet Story Of Wireless Operator Sabotage

MAN AT ARCTIC POST TO FACE TRIAL

Moscow, To-day. Voznisinsky, chief wireless operator in Tikhaya Bay, in the Arctic regions, is to be tried by the Moscow municipal court on February 25 for malicious counter-revolutionary activity.

This activity is said to include sabotage of the search for the airman Levenevsky and a crew of five who perished while flying from Moscow to the United States in August, 1937. Voznisinsky is accused of hampering the search by delaying messages and shutting off his wire-

·less.

Immediately after the fliers' dis-,chief, announcing that Levanevsky appearance, Voznisinsky is alleged was dead and could not be found. to have despatched an unauthoris ed message on behalf of the station's

ROOSEVELT TO SEE MANOEUVRES

Washington, To-day, President Roosevelt is em barking on the cruiser Hous ton at Key West, Florida, to watch the Atlantic man-

Reuter.

oeuvres.

UNITED STATES NOT HASTILY RECOGNISING GEN. FRANCO

WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT] CONTEMPLATING A HASTY DECISION REGARDING RE- COGNITION OF GENERAL FRANCO, MR. SUMNER WELLES, UNDER-SECRE- TARY OF STATE, TOLD THE PRESS CONFERENCE. YES TERDAY.

Mr. Welles ruled out the possibil- ity of pan-American unity on the question, and said that Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia had already inquired as to the United States attitude...

Pera, he added, had inform- ed the State: Department of ita intention: to recognise Gen- eral Franco.

Mr. Welles said be told those countries that the United States Government was following the po licy that it believed this question to be primarily of European import- ance, and that recognition or non- recognition was a matter for each American Government to decide for itself-Beutaredo

It is alleged that prior to the Levanevsky incident the Govern- ment had wirelessed the dismissal of Voisinsky, which he had receiv ed himself and suppressed.

· YEAR'S - SEARCH Levanevaky was lost after passing the North

Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche, who head the cast

of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," starting at the King's Theatre, to-

morrow.

POPE'S DEATH AFFECTS ITALIAN LOTTERY

Pole, and the Soviet Gov-AFFECTS

ernment spent nearly £1,000,000 in a year's search covering two con tinants.

Sir Hubert Wilkins, the British explorer, who was a personal friend of Levanevsky, participated in the search from the Canadian coast with a special Americaŭ plane. Router.

LULL AT FRONT

Chungking, To-day.

There is practically no fighting on the Tsaoshih-Kingshan front. At Siho, south of Sufhsion, only intermittent exchange of gunfire has occurred in the past two days.

Central News.

Rome, Feb. 11.

GERMAN SOCIETY IN U.S. REBELS

Washington, February 9. The Steuben Society, most im- portant group of American citizens of German origin, to-day broke off relations with the organization that now includes most of the Ger- bodies in New York The

The death of Pope Piux XI had great and unlooked for effects upon the Loto," or Italian national lot-man tery, it was remarked here to-day, Because of the people's supersti-Society declared that the New York tious beliefs, the "Loto" enjoyed.un-organization wished to con usual popularity to-day as huge to adopt an attitude idespatible. throngs were turned away, coming with conceptions of liberty in the too late to place their bets.

United States. Havas.

By some strange coincidence, it placed their money on them out of was noted, among the winning num- superstitious beliefs. The late bera prominent. were the figures. Pope had been the eleventh of his 11, 17 and 81.

name, his reign had lasted 17 years These numbers yielded rich re-and he was 81 years old at his turns to a great many betters who death. Havas.

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