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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1958.

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JACK-THE RIPPER

London, Apr. 1. Lord Chief Justice Goddard today likened the killing and dismemberment of a 15-year-old boy to the murders of "Jack the Rippar,"

the London slayer of the last contury.

Lord Goddard and four other judges of the court of criminal appent here were giving their reasons for squashing a convic- tion and death sentence on 52- year-old labourer, Albert Ed- ward Matheson, Inst week.

Mallieson carlier described by Lord Goddard as “a monster'

was convicted of murdering the boy and sawing his body In hair h Tutherance of theft, a capital charge. On appeal, he had The charge recuerd to! manslaughter and the sentence to 20 years' imprisonment.

MOST HORRIBLE

The crime, said Lord Goddard today, was most horrible and so revolting as to be almost beyond belief. There had been a homo- sexual association between the man and the boy.

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Matheson had sent anonymous postcards to the boy's father ani a teller to a chief constable before giving himself ag lø the police, Lord Goddard mild,

The defeller was.diminished responsibility within the mean- iny of the 1057 homicide Act and the prosecution had not challenged the evidence of three doctors who testifled to Mathe son's abnormally of mind.

that There

evidence W.TA Matheson had the mentality of a boy of

int he had ten. swallowed razor bludes and in- himself and nails Inte jeeled El Far was certiflable under the Mental Deliciency Act.

"The revoluing nature of the crime itself,"

Lord Goddard added, "would cause must people to say that it was the work of a miniae resembling as if did the murders of 70 years ago which terrorised the East End of London and were known us the upper murders."-

China Moll Special,

Royal Toast THE REDS

For The RAF

The Queen

to

London, Apr. 1. THE Queen, tonight drank

fortieth birthday loani

Air Force the Royal Fighter Command Headquar- ters in suburban Stanmore,

She was attending the RAF

anniversary

the dianer in

Duke company of the Edinburgh, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and other members of the Royal Famliy. The Queen declared that the Royal Air Force had "blazed the air trails АСТОВ the Atlantic, through Africa and Asia to Singapore and beyond -the nucleus of that vast network of air-highways that are now traversed daily by the airways of the world." The Battle of Britain in 1040--- the Royal Air Force's "weeks of courage which have be-

come an epic" has taken is place with Trafalgar and Waterloo among the decisive battles of history.

The

Queen said: "The old leather flying coat and helmet have already given way to The pressure suit, "But the tank, will always be

the-same-lo prevent war by being prepared,”—Reuter.

Area Closed

London, Apr. 1. Russia closed the

central Asian district of the Soviet Union to foreign diplomats for two or three days in the middle of March,

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Story Is RevealedUEEN'S

For First Time

London, Apr. 2. The inside story of Russia's most fantastic spy trial, with Stalin's dreaded OGFU reducing British prisoners almost to brainwashed automatons, is told for the first time today by the British government.

Twenty-five years ago, in March 1933, OGPU (secret police) agents swooped on six British engineers working in Russia for the British firm Metropolitan-Vickers. They arrested them and several Russians on charges of espionage and sabotage,

What happened subsequently reads like something from George Orwell's famed futuristic fan- tasy of psychological torture, "1984."

The texts of official messages Of one visit to the prisoners that flew back and forward bo- he wrote: "Asked whether they and London were being well looked after, the iween Moscow

was Invariably in the about the case are published in reply book form today in the latest afirmativn. But the drawn ex- of Thornton and edition of "Documents on Bri- pressluns tish Foreign Policy-1020 to Cushny gave me the definite impression of their having been 1034".

'put through it".

The accused Britons were Alan Monkhouse, New Zenland- born manager of Metro-Vickers in-Russia,- Leslie Thornton, John

H. Cushny, W.

MacDonald, Charles Nordwall and A. Gro gory.

Mr Munkhouse was taken to the notorious Lyubianka prison in Moscow, and Str Ovey, the British reported to Landon;

Egmond Ambassador

"They were all obviously ter- rihod of speaking and confined themselves to the minimum replies."

of

Lesile Thornten wrote such that voluminous "confessions" ht, colleagues wondered if he had been hypnoticed.

One despatch to Londón read: "Condiitoji of Thornton in- dicates severe gruelling,

given being of one who had lost power of con- centration and was reduced to mental apathy."

“Bin Arut Examination be-pression ran at B am on March 12 and continued without in terruption for 19 hours until he 3 a.m. on March 13... was forced to sign a state- ment that he was engaged in what bly examiners contend- ed was espionage."

Later Monkhouse was

Gub- jected to a second examination which conund for about 17 hours with one interval of an hout.

The Ambassador later report ed that the arrested men were

Later Thornton was released on bali але Elte British Charge d'Affaires, Mr William Strang (now Lord Strang) re- ported: "He is worn out...he has been under interrogation from the day of his arrest, on the occasion, for 21 hours wlihout a break....

is sit tement that he and another person had engaged in offensive and defensive spying was dictated by the OGPU when

British Foreign | threatened with all dire Lon- he was too tired to care what

Office spokesman sald today. Requences if they did not con- Heuter.

fess

LUCKY RILEYS (T) COLLECT

£209,079

Of Them

POOLS WIN

London, Apr. 1.

The lucky Rileys-17 of them from great-grandma down to the grandchildren streamed into London today to col- lect a record football pools win of £209,079. The money was won by father 58-year-old Thomas Riley, £8 a week mineworker who last weekend correctly forecast seven drawn games from the list of Britain's professional soccer matches. winning coupon cost him only two shillings and sixpence.

The

A poole spokesman called the Rileys wins 28,000,000 to one chance."

Three huge limousines Inid on j "I retired as from yesterday was the only definite plan they by the football pool promoters unless I have to work out any had for spending their winnings. waited here for the Riley notice," he said. family as they arrived by train from the mining, village ef Horden, County Durham, in die North of England.

"Will you give up your job?" reporters naked Mr Riley,

winner, n small, The pools

widely spare

mun, grinned under his cloth cap.

The chuttering Rileys were a "luxury hotel, whisked to where they put in a birthday phone call to their son Harry in Canton, Ohio, U.S.A. He is 37 today, emigrated 12 years ago.

A visit to Harry and his three tona, one of whom has polio,

TERRORISM HITS

NICOSIA

Nicosia, Apr. 1.

Six bomb explosions, strikes, and the first killing in Nicosia's ""Murder Mile” area for more than a year marked the third' anniversary of EOKA, the Cyprus terrorist organisation, today,

Fire broke out in an ordnance; watch сатр near Famagusta tonight Reuter. and furniture estimated to be worth about £1,000 was re- ported damaged.

Police were investigating the possiblity of sabotage.

A large pipe-type bamb filled explosive and fitted

with high

with

Hidden

a umo

fuse was

found

in an empty whisky cama at tho NAAFI · families shop in Famagusta, Officinis quickly defused R. By

Security measures wero inten- sified throughout the island.

Extra gubedo zero neignied ra key buildings in Cyprus to- day and roadblocks wożo man- ned on all highways. Everyone. entering pabile buildings was arched. Policewomen were oth

he wrote."

Another nelion-like disclosure in, the documents is that a few months before his arrest, John Cushny wa asked by OGPU agents to act as a Russian spy,

When ha refused. the OGPU

A Bent for Kussian woman employee of Metre Vickers ordering-her to redues Cushny and persuade him become a spy..

to

At the eventual telal Thorn- ton surprised the Russians by pleading not guilty despito his "confessions."

W. 11.

MacDonald pleaded gailty but on the second day,

changed his plea though the pre- sident of the court, according to Mr Strang, tried to bully him, out of this,

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The court was adjourned and on the resumption Mr Strang reported to London; "MneDonati WAS A changed man. He returned to confess, more to bis original testimony confirming In a low toneless voleu the truth

of former statements,...

Great-granule described i as "a bit of all right."

"The change in his demeanour was obvious to my-start present Previous record pools wins

and they áll, like me, are con won by were $200.020,

vinced that during the interval Londoner In February

and

tho strongest inhuence WTH went to 203,236 which

До Blanchester widow last Novembehind the series by his captorsÝ brought to bear upon MacDonald

ber:

Mrs Riley, who wore a brown bat and a weathered fur coat. tak she and her husband had been doing the pools for more than 20 years.

The couple won £409 in 1930 but thole only other wins were two small ones of 10 shillings each.

Mr Filey was seriously injured in a mine accident 11 years ago and has been doing light work at the pithcad. "I suppose we'n invest most of the money," he satd.

The pools representative es- Himated that the Rileys winnings to search wamer-could bring in £200 a week if

invested. Heuter,

POP

OW! YOU'LL HAVE TO WALK- MY

BACK'S

FOR, ME

DRIVE

I DRVE

WHY CAN'T

MYSELF?

whether by way of threats or some other psychological pres- sure to tame him and to secure. bis return to his confessions." China Mall Special.

Illiteracy

London, Apr. 1. Kirin Province in northeasl China has planned la eliminate illiteracy among its youth and middle aged' adults in one year instead of ten yours 自监 originally planned, the New China News Agency' reported today Reptor.

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