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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1980.

GERMAN ANTI-RED

CAMPAIGN.

POLICE COUP AT BERLIN COMMUNIST DEN.

IMPORTANT SEIZURE.

Berlin, Feb. 18.

BRITISH WARSHIP IN NEW ROLE.

VENUE FOR ARAB PEACE CONFERENCE.

THE HERO OF KABUL.

Baghdad, Feb. 18.

The Berlin police carried out an A rather unique event, holding important auli-Communist coup to out prospects of a more peaceful day, swooping down upon the head-ern in the Arabian Peninsula, will -quarters of the Communist Party, take place a few days hence, when and seizing huge quantities of a British warship, lying at anchor documents, some of which are rein the Persian Gulf, will be the garded as being of the highest venue of an Important conference between two King-Ibn Saud, of the Hediaz, and Faisal, of Irak.

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The amount of literature etc taken away may be judged from the fact that two lorries were employ ed to transport it from the head quarters to the police station,

The documents included the plans for an extensive future campaign in Germany.

The raid was carried out by a Jarge force of police. They took the occupants of the premises by surprise, and thereby obtained a re markable haul.

TWO HOUSES BURN AT WEST POINT-

TOOTHACHE TO BLAME FOR TO-DAY'S BLAZE.

LASTS OVER AN HOUR.

How a tooth-acho was the in- direct cause of a fire which all but destroyed two buildings is revealed by police, enquiries into the circumstances attending. an outbreak ; which occurred, at Catchick Street, Kennedy Town, in

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early hours of this morning. It is related that the proprietor of a native wines and spirits shop occupying the ground floor of No, 40, Catchfok Street, one of the. buildings, damaged by the fire, had been troubled by toothache.

Credit for the achievement of bringing them together is largely that of Sir Francis Humphrys, of Kabul fame, who a few months ago was appointed British High Commissioner in Irak, succeeding the fato Bir. Gilbert Clayton. . Apparently he found sleep 'Im3 |

possible of attainment, and short- The people of Irak and they before three o'clock this morn heads over the Trak Nejd frontier, the kitchen to prepare a cure. He Hedjas have long been at loggering, got up from bed and went into where tribal riding has been boiled some herbal preparation frequent,

The delicate point was to find a place where the two monarchs could meet to discuss the problems. issue, and at the same time permit cach to safeguard his amour propre.

The ransacking of the place took several hours. The main purposent of the mid was to discover the ori- gin of acditious leaflets which have, of late, been circulated among the police force."

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Several hundred unemployed staged a hostile demonstration out side the Communist headquarters while the search was in progress, The mob was driven off by the police, who used their batons.--- Renter.

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ovór a wood-fire in a ̈chelty and went back to bed, this time drop- ping off to sleep.

premises on fire.

He woke later to discover the The fire from the chetty, it is thought, had caught a pile of firewood stacked close by, thus setting the premises

Sir Francis Humphrys will accompany King Faisal... în aalight. special train from Baghdad to the ship, which will be flying the White Ensign somewhat to the south of Busrah-Reuter.

"FRENCH HEROISM · AT YEN-BAL

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attacks by the mutineers on their

·place of refuge.

Sergeant Damour, however, was shot down and killed during the attack

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Call at 3.44 n.m.

The Brigade received a call at 3.44 a.m. and responded with an engine, from Kennedy Town and three from Headquarters. ́ ́ The building affected-a three storey structure of the ordinary native stype-was well in the grip of the flames when the task of quelling the outbreak was begun.

Catchick Street gives on to the water-front, and it was found pos- sible to make use of salt-water solely, without drawing on the mains.

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the defeat of M. Tardieu's Govern ment may cause some delay at the

Lines were joined up with the conference in the examination of

At 9,30 a.m. the French officers pumpa, carrying water over a die- questions in which France had the situation in control. tance of three hundred yards to directly involved. M. Briand is Patrols were sent out, and ave the acone of the outbreak. It wins postponing his return to London. Annamite civilians, and twenty-found possible also to fight the and it is possible Admiral Leygues five wounded tirailleurs, were dr. fire at close quarters. A Indder will also go to Paris.

rested. Arrests of persons in was run up to the first storey, and possession of bombs have been by way of the verandah, the fire- made since.

men extinguished the fames room by room. The flanics were, over, come before much damage was done to the roof..

There are several notes before the conference, including the Japanese tonninge schedules, in which France is hot directly interested, and these are likely to keep the conference occupied for several days, by which time it ponsible the French political crisis may have resolved itself...

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Bombs at Funeral.

On February 12, at nine o'clock, just twenty minutes before the are rival of the Governor-General, M. Pasquier, and French offcials to attend the funeral of the victims,;

two bombs were thrown at Adjutant Fontanaro, who was in charge of the arrangements.

and, drawing his revolver fired at the assailant; inflicting a wound, but not sufficient to disable the miscreant,"who escaped,

Several newspapers are debating the possibility of finding me solvent in the nature of a political expedient for the difficulties of allocation with which the dele- The Adjutant escaped injury, gaton of the five Powers are faced. The delegates of some Powers are unofficially reported to have dia- cussed, informally, the possibility of a suggestion that the Powers should undertake to consult to gather at the time of an event. Apparently, the newspapers find a point of departure for the suggos- tion in the French memorandum

The funeral took place during the morning without further untoward Incident.

Military Court Bet Up. which refers to "a" mutual The Governor-General has issued guarantee of security," the effect 4 decree, re-establishing the Mill of which would be to transform tary Criminal Court-which is only absolutely the naval requirements set up in times of great emergency of eschi Power into relative to try those arrested in connexion

with the affair. requirements.-British Wireless.

Berlin, Feb. 18.

The revolutionary leader killed The Cabinet, eltting until late Nguyen Khao Nhu, who had been at Hunghos has been identified as this morning, rejected a demand sentenced to twenty years' Im- by the Minister of Defence, to in-prisonment, in his absence, follow- sert in the Budget a sum for the ing direct evidence of his connexion construction of a second ten thou- with the Annamite National -80- sand ton cruiser similar to the clety, a revolutionary organisation. "pocket battleship" Ersatz Preus Ben.-Reuter.

YEN'S CURT REPLY TO NANKING.

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had been fighting. The money is still not forthcoming.

Hanoi Incident.

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Staircase Alight,

Like many other Chinese tope-:

ments, No. 40, Cathick Street is served by a staircase common "to the adjacent building. The stair- case-covering is mostly of wood, and offered very little resistance. to the fire. The upper storeys of No. 38, Catchick Street were alight when the firemen gave their attention to this quarter.

the floors and within an hour, by Hoses were carried right into

deluging the floors, the firemen were able to obtain control. The "üll clear" message went through at 6.20 to leadquarters.

floors of No. 40 were considerably Seen this morning, all three damaged. The first and second floors of No. 38 were also severely damaged with smoke and water. burnt, while the ground floor was

any, are not yet available. Particulars of insurance affected, if

No casualties have been reported.

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