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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22,

1935.

WARNER BROS.

BELOVED MARK TWAIN

THREE CROATIANS WHO SHOOK

On November 30 the world will of the American author and humorist under the name Mark Twain became

celebrate the centenary of the wirth

Samuel Langhorne Clemens,

who

world-famous. The picture shows a monument recently erected in hla 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-PROVENCË- -

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- shorn of their aliases under which they hid,

men,

are:

Zronini 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, aliae Benes, a farmer, börn January 5, 1903, at Kolodina, 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.

DANCED

AT THE FAIR

A dozen reasons why the recent San Diego Exposition proved popular. ·

NINE BRITISH WOMEN LEAVE THE WORLD

Convent Door

Door Locked After Them

be Spent in Silence

Lives to Velitchko was

Nottingham, Nov. 1. NINE women, supreme contentment written in their faces, bade farewell to the world at Nottingham

In the same trial for murder, the, Dimitrof Velitelko, alias Petrus four-year-old Princess

fate will be decided of three other Kelemen, who was later to be the Ingeborg of Bentheim-Stein-accused terrorists who have been real murderer and die under the furt, who is related to nearly held in foreign jails for the past Babre of Colonel Pitolict and two

And whose extradition to police bullets. all the reigning monarchs of year

France was refused. They are: known in the band as a cool, ex- Europe, renounced all her

Dr. Ante Pavellich, gang leader perienced killer for he was alrendy brains of the death fued, under sentence of death for the hereditary royal privileges and at Caxton Hall Register born July 14, 1889, at Bradine. murder, at Sofia, of a communist Office, London, last month,

The four were Joined at to-day. when she married Herr Au-Beutenant of Dr. Pavelitch; or Budapest by Kvaternik, able lieu-

Some were on the threshold of life; their veils and March 29, 1910, at Zagreb, Yugo- gust Anton Hans Solken, slavia, Held in prison at Turis. tenant of the gang leader, who

Yvan Percevitch, gang, pay letter from the master-mind, Dr. fulness. Others were women over whom more years had to them each a sealed coarse brown nuns' robes could not disguise their youth- a twenty-two-year-old com- mercial traveller.

presently under arrest in Austria.xecute without discussion any passed-but the air of repose was common to all,

Missing Blonde

order given you by the bearer of this note."

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 Offee.

Held in prison at Turin.

Eugen Kvaternik, alias Kramer,

master, born 1880 at Vienna;

deputy.

brought

Invelitch. Ench note

read:

For the rest of their lives they will experience the

Missing from the accuseda'

greatest austerities practised by any order of nuns. bench, as the trial started to-day, A doctor of laws, Pavelitch lived |

They were the Sisters of Poor Clare, whose convent at was the mysterious blonde whom hidden abroad following his con- 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 Slav. Maria Voudroch, she is want- for participation in a murder and had been celebrated by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Her father, Prince Eberwys ed on a charge of having put into a terrorist train-wreck. Pavelitch Nottingham, Dr. McNulty, in the adjoining Church of our

Bentheim-Steinfurt-re--the hands of the killers-the-pistols kept aloof from kis_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-

gang's armoury and which she camp or the strange farm near convent and the bishop locked the door.

border carried in her tollet cases to the the Hungaro-Yugoslav Hotel Negre-Coste, here in Alx, where the "farmers" spent their where she distributed the arms on days learning to throw bombs and the morning of the murder.

pistol target practice.

of

a year and all his Foyal pri vileges to marry the daughter of a German peasant.

One of his aunts បទង់ 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,

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

The six necuseds were all repre~!

False Passports sented in court to-day by the same] French lawyer, Maitre Georges- The quartet, led by Kvaternik, Desbons. H.M. Qucon Marie of left Buda Pest for Lausanne Yugoslavia, widow of Alexander, where they were given falso pass who fled civil suit against the, ports, took easier pronounced murder gang is represented by alinses, bought new clothes from and Foreign which they carefully cut all labels, former Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour and divided a goodly sum of expense Maitre Lamotte. There will be money und on September 29 160 witnessDS.

divided into two groups and crossed the border into France.

Premier

They will never again enter the church. They will receive Communion at 7.30 every morning, but it will be through a grille by the church altar.

Almost continuous silence, meditation, and prayer, and such rest as can be gained from rough wooden beds which per- mit no more than a half-sitting, half-reclining posture will be the conditions under which they will live.

road near Melun' where he was! driven by hunger,

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The utmost frugality will govern their meals, some of which will consist only of dry bread and coffee, taken stand. ing and in silence.

Lynched By Crowd Velitchke fell mortally wound-

After locking the convent door Emerging from the obscurity of Balkan hideawayk, these Croats,

They finally mat in Faris Octo-ed, alot, cut by sabres, lynched by the bishop handed the keys through unscen mother members of the feared Oustachi ber 2, 1934, and went to different the crowd, at the very place where 4 grille to an

ruthless than any hotels to throw police off the trail he stepped on the runningboard abbess. "That is why we came to Eng-band, more

Those who communicate with land in the hope of keeping the Chicago gang, crept silently across of the band. Four days later they and with his rapidfire pistol shot Europe on the trail of the monarch went to Avignon, then to Mar- both King and Foreign Minister. wedding a secret."

they had sworn to kill. Their deseilles to study the lay of the land. He 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- Krille. Foad and other gifts will be received by means of a revolving on a den of political killing of before Alexander was due to land, tims of his or police guns, also ile drum in the house of the Blsters Alcxander and accidentul but un- they all met here in Aix, a small there. Foliceman Galy and premeditated killing of Barthou. •hotel, where the mysterious General Georges, who was shot extern, which adjoins the enclosed blonde beauty. opened her toilet as he sat in the same car as the convent. The six sisters extern, Implacable Killers

cases and handed around the King and Minister, finally re- the nuns' only link with outside In reality this trial is a trial of weapons.

covered after months spent be-society, hold no converse with the sisters intern, except in the rare tween life and death. the terror gangs. The Oustachis

hours of recreation. are implacable killers, cold-blooded

-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 gaal for sixty-five days rather ihan pay a fine of £5 and £5 5s. costs.

Kvaternik started 'immediately in their execution, but they are for Switzerland, to furnish him- only one of a score of "black-hand" self with an alibi. Raitch political secret bunds which the Pospichil police and governments of Europe have, battled ever since the Marscilles massacres in an effort to stamp out. For that reason, it is doubtful whether the court here will show any leniency.

When the court clerk read out and the charges to-day, it was the returned to Paris following accusations. which the still held abroad, were charged with a second attempt in three prisoners present, and the the capital if the first attempt at three Marseilles failed. The beauteous called upon to face: blonde shut her tollet cases and

1. Association of criminals for vanished into thin air without the purpose of commiting crimes leaving a single trace for police against persons or properties: Kralj, Raitch, Posplchil, Kvater nik and Anto Pavolitch;

Barely furnished Colls

The nuns will work in the con- vent vegetable garden, which will provido

A 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:

As the trial bogan, records were Betrayed By Generosity produced in court which tell a tale of mystory and murder which rival Velitchke-botter known in his-

2. Accessories to the killing by

In all, 14.women in nuns robes She said she had plenty of fiction. The story has all the tory by his alias of Petrus Kele- Velitchke of King Alexander and

men-und money, but wished thus to up-markings of fiction. Euch mem-

Kralj went to Mar M. Louis Barthou and attempted were at Mass this morning, but hold her innocence of the charge ber of the gang carried tattooed on selles to do the killing. They voluntary homicide against Gen-ve of them who are postulants his arm the sign of the band: a stationed themselves along the oral Georges and Policeman Galy: will have one further brief sight on which she had been convicted

of the church."" skull and two cross-bones, with, in line of the royal parade, but even Kralj, Raith, Pospich!!. -of defrauding the Under-Bulgarian, the phrase: "Liberty or before Alexander stopped on

Clad in bridal raiment, with ground Railway.

Death."

French soil Kralj was frightoned 3. Use of false passports: Kralj,

trainbearers and all the splendour: The case of the prosecution is by the prospect of shooting or Raltch, Pospichil.

of white silk and satin, they will She wore a fur coat and simple. Late in September, 1984, throwing a bomb into the crowd while waiting for her escort to Pospichil, Raitch and Kralj, mom- and ran away.

The first and second accusa-hortly emerge from behind that He left Marseilles Holloway, ordered a three bera of the Oustachi gang, were before the King arrived, returned tiens carry a death sentence with locked door to become the brides

funch, which brought by a wardress from anÁ in Ilungary, either at the Croat to Aix, then Avignon and finally conviction; the third carries a of the church.

refugee camp of Najlkanissa or took a train for Paris. From prison term up to 20 years. Tho adjoining hotel.

the refugee farm of Jankaputza, Paris he took a taxicab to the grim shadow of the guillotine was under the command of Percovitch, forest of Fontainebleau and by cast across the courtroom to-day, timid and who, oboying orders of Dr. Anto giving a tip of unusual propor as the prisonors, Pavelltch drow 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 incident to police. For a week of preparation and worked up an Kralj was chased through the airtight caso against them and forent, living only on berries, and that the prosecutor would make the was finally captured on a country guillotine.

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

·Cool-Kiffer-

Mr. Nowman, howover, had paid Dosignated for the murder were the fine that was imposed on him. Pospichil, Raitch and Kralj and

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