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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936.

CABARET KING MURDERED

GANGSTER CRIME IN Question:

LUXURY SUITE

Masked Raiders Rouse

Victim From Sleep

Paris, April 24.

Should A Premier Duel?

Prime Minister Of Hungary Does So

FOUR masked men burst into the luxurious home of M.

Vienna, Apr. 24. Louis Leples, the "King of the Paris Night Clubs," Mr. Baldwin may have all this morning and shot him dead as he lay in his bed.

sorts of problems to tackle The crime, which had the appearance of a well-as Premier of Britain, but [planned "execution" by a gang from the Paris under- not the sort that is now worrying General Julius world, was committed in American gangster style,

M. Leplee, owner of one of the most fashionable dibarets in Goemboes the Champs Elysees quarters, had left his establishment at four Hungary.

18 Premier of

this morning and was still asleep in his apartment in the Avenue He has been challenged by Herr

de la Grande Armee when, towards 10 o'clock his elderly maid Tibor von Eckhardt, leader of heard a knock at the door.

She opened it and was con-

fronted with four young men, Science

Tel. 68300, who asked to see her master. When she replied that he was still asleep they pushed her into The hall.

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While one pointed a revolver at her, two of the intruders gagged her, bound her hands and feet with cords, look her into the drawing-room and tied her to a sofa.

Laughingly,

one of the gangsters kissed the aged servant on the fore- head, saying: "Don't be frightened, pid dear. We shall do you no harm."

Then they went to 31. Leplee's bedroom. The panle-stricken wo man heard one of the men shout: "You got mie, Well, you'll never get me any more." The noise of a shot rang out.

For twenty minutes the gangsters ransacked the apartment. At last they came to the woman, took off her gag and salti, "Where is the money? Tell

It was only half an hour Inter that the wemon managed to get rid of the cords which bound her feet and was able to call help.

The police found M. Leplec dead in his bed with a bullet in the head, A sum of money had disappeared from his pocket-book.

Envisages

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Paris, Apr. 30. The recent highly successful tests in which an airplane towed four gliders for a long distance has caused an imaginative Frenchman to conjure up a pic- ture of a future aerial express train with as many cars as you please.

the Independent Farmers' Party,

to fight a duel in Budapest to- morrow morning.

As Premier of Hungary he should! not necept, because duelling is forbidden by Hungarian law.

As General Julius Goemboca he is bound to accept in accordance with the army officers' code. Actually he has three choices of action, or inaction:-

1. To refuse the challenge. 2. To fight with pistola. 3. To fight with nabres.

JUST TWO WORDS And all because of two words aid to have been uttered by him at a secret meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee called on Satur day to discuss the new Rome Paci signed by Italy, Austria, and

The two words were "PERFIDIOUS IMPUDENCE"

The plane up in front would be the Incomative, naturally, and in order to make it look like one it would have a fake smokestack Jungary. emitting artificial smoke. This the would make travellers in

feel at home. If other cars

She replied that M. Leplee kept all This money and his jewels in the

bank. Then the gangsters departed.necessary real smoke spreading Herr Eckhardi, who had eri-

MADE A FORTUNE

real soot throughout the trafnticised General Goemboes' could even be arranged.

handling of the negotiations, did Noxt to the tender would be the not like such words being address. baggage car and the mail car, comed to him. The challenge follow- plete with clerk distributing mailed.

At the Prime Minister's oflce throughout the voyage. There would

liner, of course, and like all entire ignorance of the affair is dining services in Europe the head

professed-but train a couple of hours before dinner- waiter would go through the aerial Seconds are believed to have been line distributing sent-cheeks. At the appointed. correct hour, an acro-lynomic bell would cali whatever that may

The police are looking for a man known in the Paris underworld who recently asked M. Lepice for £250, which he refused to give.

M. Leplee, who was 52 years of

nge, was one of the Brst in Paris to start dancing halls. He was financini- ly interested in a number of night

clubs and had made a large fortune.

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The bertha in the sleeping car sleeping (there would have to be a car) would have special air-pocket shock absorbors for light sleepers.

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Perth, Western Australia,

Apr. 30. Miss Ellen Margaret Hobley, an eighteen-year-old girl, born in Lancashire, has visited Perth and made her first contect_with civilisation.

Was

She was only two when she arrived In Queensland with her father and mother, and for the next three years

travelling

her in huggy to future home on the Roper River, in far North Australia. There, until a few months ago, her only companions were and mother beside her father blacks, animals, birds and crocodiles. A tame cockatas was her "friend," and all her education was by posial lessons from a Sydney correspondence school. Now she has been big ships, trains, electric light, wireless, huge shops with plate glass windows and other commonplace sights of civilised life of which she had hardly any idea.

Perth was amused to find that she hnd a distinct Lancashire accent,

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Capetown, Apr. 30. Storks, coming from Europe in great locks, are solving South Africa's focust problems. The storks have acquired a taste for locusts, and this season they have destroyed so many that the Gov- ernment's annual locust cam- paign-costing $10,000,000 a year -Как been Ruspended.

The

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Melbourne, May 1. Melbourne, is Aultering from a plague of black crickets, which are invading shops, offices _ and dwellings, and in some placea chasing an almost deafening din throughout the night.

The National Broadcasting Station BAR was thrice compelled to close down because crickets entered the transmitter station settled on the 10,000-volt conduc- for, short-circuiting the power supply. The plugue is due to the prolonged hot and dry weather.

NIECE FOR THE DUCHESS OF KENT Belgrade, May 1.

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I The kind that a Scot employs to

put right.

3 Taken away in deep thought.

10 Make apologica.very precisely. 11 A deed that gives comfort. 12. Result.

18 Behold a boy in joy.

15 The north way out for the dusky

ong.

17 Joint.

1 12 again.

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21 Indientes a change of weather.

22 Describes the laboura of the

Vicar and the envelope address

24 Tailors get the bird: this bird. 27 These bosta do not entertain.

twenty-one-month-old baby 28 What the artist drew when row-

failed recently."

Thomas

The baby is Christy, of Crowley-lane, Oldham, Lancs.

A month age he was taken to the Royal Manchester Children's; Hospital at Pendlebury suffer- ing from a bad cough.

His parents said he had had the cough for about two months, They had no idea he had sial- lowed anything.

DARE NOT MOVE IT An X-ray revealed the pin. An operation was performed.

The surgeon reached the pit, but did not dare move it as ench tho movement would bring sharp point nearer the wall of the lung.

The operation proved that it Prince-Regent Paul of Yugo would be possible to move the pln Slavia, gave birth to a daughter only if it were first closed while

nt 7 am to-day. Both mother still in the lung.

and daughter are doing well.

The baby will probably, christened Marie, after Queen Marlej of Yugo-Slavin.

At the operation the surgeon be tried to close the pin but failed.

Afterwards the child was said to be "in a distressed state and very poorly."

The Duke and Duchess of Kent, who arrived in Belgrade on Sunday,

No further attempt will be made will be godfather and godmother. to remove the pin until he has

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recovered strength.

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A Horse Laugh on Sam

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These are better not crossed in advance.

6 Yamps to the cobbler..

0 He took all for himself and some

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7 Provides great pleasure for the

troops.

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8 These sound very humid exte

tions.

it might be without. hope or

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10 "Emu got "-overworked

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20 Where you require a longer

chain.

21 Apparently Bill is in debt for

the bats.

23 The high part of 4.

25 Appetiser associate

with Cromwell.

mostly

20 Such attire is ant at all swagger

quite the reverse.

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