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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935,

BELOVED MARK TWAIN

THREE CROATIANS WHO

SHOOK

DANCED AT THE FAIR

celebrate the centenary of the birth

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who

Da November 30 the world will of the American author and humorist under the name Mark Twain became world-famous. The picture shows a manument recently erected in his commemoration.

PRINCESS TO MARRY

· SALESMAN--.

PREFERS LOVE TO ROYAL HONOURS DARK-HAIRED, twenty-

THE WORLD

TERRORISTS ON TRIAL

IN FRANCE.

SHADOW OF GUILLOTINE HOVERS OVER AIX-EN PROVENCE

Aix-en-Provence, Nov. 7.

The guillotine threw its shadow over the dus- ty courtroom in this sleepy capital of the sunny old Romany provence to-day as three manacled terrorists, tools of a secret political "black-hand" gang, stumbled into the prisoners' box to face trial for the murder, on October 9, 1934, of Dictator-King Alexander I, of Yugo-Slavia, and Foreign Minister of France Louis Barthou in the streets of Marseilles.

The three Croat terrorists who look more like Sunday-dressed factory hands than political gun- men, shorn of their aliases under which they hid,

are:

Zroninir Pospichil, alias Novak, a chauffeur, born June 9, 1904, at Vukovina, Yugoslavia; last previous known address Munich; arrested two days after the crime at Thonon near the Franco-Swiss frontier.

Yvan Raitch, alias Benes, a farmer, born January 5, 1903, at Koladino, Yugoslavia; last previous known address Croatian political camp in Hungary; arrested Thonon.

Mio Kralj, alias Malny, a mechanic, born September 17, 1908, at Kopriviniza, Yugoslavia; lived Nagikanissa, Hungary; arrested in Fontainebleau forest, a week after the crime.

A dozen reasons why the recent Sa: Diego Exposition proved popular.

NINE BRITISH

BRITISH WOMEN

LEAVE THE WORLD

Convent Door Locked After Them

Was Lives to be Spent in Silence

In the same trial for murder, the Dimitrof Velitebko, alins Petrus fate will be decided of three other Kelemen, who was later to be the accused terrorists who have been real murderer and die under the held in foreign jails for the past sabre of Colonel Pitollet and two year and whose exeradition to police bullets. Velitchko France was refused. They are: known in the band as a cool, ex- Dr. Ante Paveliteh, gang lender perienced killer for he was already, and brains of the death fued, under sentence of death for the

deputy. -

faces, bade farewell to the world at Nottingham

four-year-old Princess Ingeborg of Bentheim-Stein- furt, who is related to nearly all the reigning monarchs of Europe, renounced all her hereditary royal privileges

Nottingham, Nov. 1. at Caxton Hall Register born July 14, 1889, at Bradine. murder, at Sofia, of a communist

Iteld in prison at Turin.

NINE women, supreme contentment written in their Office, London, last month, Eugen Kvaternik, alias Kramer, when she married Herr Au-eutenant of Dr. Pavelitch; born

The four were Joined ar to-day. gust Anton Hans Solken, March 29, 1910, at Zagreb, Yugo Budapest by Kvaternik, able lieu-

stavia; Held in prison at Turin. tenant of the gang leader, who Some were on the threshold of life; their veils and a twenty-two-year-old com-

each a seated coarse brown nuns' robes could not disguise their youth- mercial traveller.

gang pus brought to them master, born 1889 at Vienna; letter from the master-mind, Dr: fulness. Others were women over whom more years had presently under arrest in Austria.) Paveliteh. Each note rend:

"Execute without discussion any passed-but the air of repose was common to all. order given you by the bearer of this note."

For the rest of their lives they will experience the greatest austerities practised by any order of nuns. A doctor of laws, Pavelitch lived was the mysterious blonde whom hidden abroad following his con- They were the Sisters of Poor Clare, whose convent at police sought unsuccessfully all viction, in absence, by a Yugoslav Bulwell, Nottingham, was "enclosed" to-day. After Mass across Europe. A smartly-dressed court, and condemnation to death

Romance is no stranger to her family.

Exactly twenty-nine years ago this month her father and mother were secretly married at the old Strand Register Office.

Yvan Percevitch,

Missing Blonde Missing from the accuseds' bench, as the trial started to-day,

Her father, Prince Eberwyted on a charge of having put into a terrorist train-wreck. Pavelitch Nottingham, Dr. McNulty, in the adjoining Church of our Slav, Maria Voudroch, she is want for participation in a murder and had been celebrated by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Bentheim-Steinfurt, ro. the hands of the killers the pistols kept aloof from his murder gang' nounced a fortune of £250,000 and bombs which comprised the and was never seen at the refugee Lady of Perpetual Succour, the nuns paced slowly to the a year-and-all-his-royal-pri-gang's armoury and which she camp or the strange farm near convent and the bishop locked the door..

of

vileges to marry the daughter

of a German peasant.

One of his aunts

Was the Duchess of Albany, another was the Queen Mother of Holland,

A Shrug

The Princess, whose full name Is Ellen Ingeborg Sophie Henriette Maria Augusta Pauline Maxi- milienne Constance Caroline Jeanne Huberta Bentheim-Stein- furt, has Inherited her father's disregard for tradition,

Hungaro-Yugoslav border

carried in her tollet cases to the the Hotel Negre-Coste, here in Aix, where the "farmers" spent their They will never again enter the church.

receive Communion at 7.30 every morning, but it will be They will through a grille by the church altar.

where she distributed the armis on days learning to throw bonibs and the morning of the murder,

pistol target practice.

False Passports

Premier

and

mother

The six accuseds were all repre- sented in court to-day by the same

Almost continuous silence, meditation, and prayer, and French lawyer, Maitre Georges- The quartet, led by Kvaternik, such rest as can be gained from rough wooden beds which per- Desbons. H.M. Qucen Marie of left Buda Pest for Lausanno mit no more than a half-sitting, half-reclining posture these Yugoslavia, widow of Alexander, where they were given false pass-will be the conditions under which they will live. who filed civil suit against the, ports, took enster pronounced murder gang is represented by aliases, bought new clothes from former

The utmost frugality will Foreign which they carefully cut all labels, road near Melun where he was Minister Joseph Paul-Boneour and divided a goudly sum of expense driven by hunger,

-govern their meals, some of Maitre Lamotte. There will be money and

which will consist only of dry. on September 20

bread and coffee, taken stand- 160 witnesses.

divided into two groups and

Lynched By Crowd

ing and in silence. crossed the border into France. Emerging from the obscurity of Balkan hideaways, these Croats,

Velitchke fell mortally wound- After locking the convent door members of the feared Oustachi bur 2, 1934, and went to different the crowd, at the very place where grille to

They finally met in Paris Octo- ell, shot, cut by sabres, lynched by the bishop handed the keys through band, "That is why we came to Eng-chicago gang, crept silently across of the band. Four days later they; and with his rapidfire platol shot

ruthless than any hotels to throw police off the trail he stepped on the runningboard abbess, land in the hope of keeping the Europe on the trail of the monarch went to Avignon, then to Mar- both King and Foreign Minister. wedding & secret.'

Those who communicate with they had sworn to kill. Their deseilles to study the lay of the land Ile is buried in the Marseilles the sisters will do so through this fence here appears entirely based for their killing and the night potter's field. Two women, vic-grille. Food and other gifts will be on a plea of political kiling of before Alexander was due to land, tlma of his or police guns, also lle received by means of a revolving Alexander and accidental but un- they all met here in. Aix, a small there, premeditated killing of Barthom

Policeman Galy and hotel, where the mysterious General Georges, who was shot blonde beauty opened her toilet as he sat in the same car as the CRREY and handed around the King and Minister, finally re- Tu reality this trial is a trial of weapons.

covered after months spent be- the terror gangs. The Oustachis!

They do not like it very much," she admitted with a shrug, when asked about the family attitude to her marriage.

-And

A Duke's Fiancee Goes To Gaol

Miss Lola Ina de Barnardo, who claims to be grand-niece of Dr. Barnardo, of the famous "Homes," chose at Wood Green Police Court last month to go to gaol for sixty-five days rather than pay a fine of £5 and £5 5. costs.

She said she had plenty of money, but wished thus to up- hold her innocence of the charge on which she had been convicted

more

Implacable Killers

are Impincable killers, cold-blooded Kvaternik started immediately.

to stamp out. For that reason, blonde shut her toilet cases and

tween life and death.

in their execution, but they are for Switzerland, to furnish him- When the court clerk read out only one of a score of "black-hand" self with an alibi. Raitch and the charges to-day, it was tho political secret bands which the Poapichil returned to Paris following accusations which tho police and governments of Europe charged with a second attempt in three prisoners present, and the have battled ever since the the capital if the first attempt at three still held abroad, were Marseilles massacres in an effort Marseilles falled. The beauteous called upon to face: it is doubtful whether the court vanished into thin air without the purpose of commiting crimes 1. Association of criminals for here will show any leniency. leaving a single trace for polico, against persons or properties:

As the trial began, records were produced in court which bell a talo!

Betrayed By Generosity Kralj, Raltch, Posplchil, Kvater

nik and Anto Pavelitch;.. of mystery and murder which rival Volitehke better known in his- fiction. The story: has all the tory, by his alius of Petrus Kebe Velitehke of King Alexander and 2. Accessories to the killing by markings of fiction. Each mem-mon-and Kralj went to Mar-M. Louis Barthou and attempted ber of the gang carried tattooed on seilles to do the killing. They voluntary homicide against Gen his arm the sign of the band: a stationed themselves along the

Kralj, Raith, Pospichil.

1

unseen

drum In the house of the sisters extern, which adjoins the enclosed convent. The six sisters extern, the hung only link with outside society, hold no converse with the sistors intern, except in the rare hours of recreation.

4

Barcly Furnished Cells The nuns will work in the con- fent vegetable garden, which will provide 2 substantial part of their food,

The furnishings of their plain brick cells, 12ft. by 8 ft. con- sist only of a crucifix, a bed, a jug and basin, and a rough bookcase:

In all, 14 women in nuns robes were at Mass this morning, but ve of them who are postulanta of the church.

of defrauding the Under-Bulgarian, the phrase: "Liberty or before. Alexander stopped on

skull and two cross-bones, with, in line of the royal parade, but even! oral Gaorges and Policeman Galy; I will have one further brief sight: ground Railway.

She wore a fur coat and while waiting for her escort to Holloway, ordered a three- Tunch, which Was brought by a wardress from an adjoining hotel.

course

Mias de Barnardo had original- ly been charged in company with her fianco, Mr. H. G. Willmott Newman, who claims to be Duke of Sax Noricum and a prince of the Holy Roman Empire,

Mr. Newman, however, had paid the fine that was imposed on him.

French sell Krall was frightonod

Death."

8. Use of false passports: Kra}}, simple. Late in September, 1984, throwing a bomb into the crowd

The case of the prosecution is by the prospect of shooting or Raitch, Pospichil. Posplehl, Raitch and Kralj, mem- and ran away. Ho loft Marsellies The first and second

accusa bors of the Oustachi gang, were before the King arrived, returned tions carry a death sentence with in Hungary, either at the Cront to Aix, then Avignon and finally conviction; the third carries a refugee camp of Najikanissa or took a train for Paris. From prison term up to 20 years. Tho the refugee farm of Jankaputza, Paris he took a taxicab to the grim shadow of the guillotine was under the command of Porcovitch, forest of Fontainebleau and by cast across the courtroom, to-day, Who, obeying orders of. Dr. Anto giving a tip of unusual propor- AB prisoners, timid Pavelitch drew lots to name the tions attracted the attention of frightened in appearance, realized killers of Alexander,

the chauffour who reported the that the state in more than a year Incident to pollen. For a week of preparation had worked up an Kralj

was chased through the airtight case against them and forest, living only on berries, and that the prosecutor would ask the was finally captured on a country guillotine.

Cool Killar

Designated for the murder wore Pospichil; Raftch and Kraif and

the

and

Clad in bridal raiment, with trainbearers and all the splendour of white silk and satin, they will hortly emerge from behind that; locked door to become the brides of the church.

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