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15 ARABS KILLED IN FIGHT

BRITISH MILITARY

POST ATTACKED

NO CASUALTIES

SUFFERED.

ZINOVIEFF EXPOSES

PLOTTERS

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936,

"DEVILISH" TRAFFIC MOTOR ACCIDENT JAPAN LIKELY TO

IN HEROIN

(Continued from Page 1.) regarding the speeding up of ter│"I came from Shek Lung and work- roristic action agairst Stalin.

Replying to the Attorney-General, ed as an amah for them.

After Sun Chiu-ki, a photographer Kamenetf confirmed his leading role of the Pin Pin Studio, had deposed in the organisation of the assassinato have taken photographs of the tion of M. Kiralf in Petrograd. The room, Mr. Tayler and Revenue Ofteer. attempt to kill Stalin was to be made Grimmill testified to having raided init May Day, during the demonstra the premises and found the articles tions in the. Red Square.

which formed the subject of the

The

charge.

PRISONERS STATEMENTS

STUDENTS INVOLVED According to

testimony of Making a statement from the dock, the Oldberg, another of

accused, the first prisoner said he was only to be an employee, but if the Court found simultaneous attempts were made on the lives of other Soviet him, guilty, he hoped in Lordship Jerusalem, Aug. 20. | leaders in Lentigrad (Petrograd) and would deal with him leniently. Fifteen Arabs are believed to have, Klett. He had prepared a bomb and

The second

to visit a friend. been killed in an affray which lasted had arranged with student supporters the bed accused said he went to

they

The third prisoner remarked that all day between an aried Arab gang) of Trotsky, to throw it when and military detachments near were marching past Stalin in Red she was a native of Shek Lang and Square. A last-minule arrest pre- Hedera, in Central Palestine.

was employed on the premikes 1 vented the plot being carried out

an aman for three dollars a month. produced The confilet started with an attack

Atory-General

Boing a country-womY, sche was whereupon what ho described, na A on a military patrol,

Trotsky

rather curious of the pills and went reinforcements,

the including

camairing aircraft, document,

words, inside the roar to see them, Betare were sent to the scene of the fight-Stalin must be destroyed."

she could warm up the seat, she was ing. The

sullered troops

no The prosecution is making deter- nerested. (Laughter).

In the course of his summning-up, mhed efforts to prove there is a nk)

the the weed. Referring to meet by necused. Referring to the state ment of the third prisoner, die Lord ship said she End pleaded guilty with Pisarming candour of her sex's chief] frailty-curiosity.

ensualties,

'The

A Jewish taxi-driver was shot and between Nazi Germany and the glis Lordship said the case for

frem an orange grove neared Tratsky-Zinoviet plot, Reuter

killed Hamle Service.

tom 25 - Iteurs.

Suitetur

UNEMPLOYED AGED RANGE

WHAT LATEST RETURNS SHOW

London, Aug. 20.

A half-yearly analysis of the age distribution of unemployed man and women, made by the Labour Minis-j try, shows that while there was a reduction between May, 1935, and last May in the numbers unemploy~ ed in nearly every age group, the re duction was greater proportionally among persons under 35 years.

Men under 35 were 44.8 per cent. ot all unemployed men in May, 1935. but thko May the percentate, had fallen to 410-British Wireless.

SEALED OWN FATE

Moscow, Aug. 21.

I in believed that Zinoviet and Kumeneff have sealed their fate by boasting of the plot to assassinate Stalin and convert Russia, through terrorism, into a "Trotsky-Fascist" regime.

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Without retiring, the jury found all the accused guilty, and His la ship passed sentences as atatel.

Zinovielf admitted giving orders to Luxuriant Tresses kill Stalin.

Riengold sald a man nuned I, I, Bakaey was to kill Stalin's murderer. Bogilen, after the Dictator was sinin, However, Bogion committed suicide

due to his unwillingness to portlete in the plot.

The prosecutor asked if Kameneff had participated in the 1934 ansas- staation of Serhei Kirov, for which 115 men and two women were execu- ted and more than 100 imprisoned. Kamenell sakd he had discussed Kirov's assasination with the Trotsky Dior in 1932, and in addition implicat est Alex Bykov, Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs. He said he had be Hoved. Karl Radek, editor of Izrestin, would be sympathetic.

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Chiengo, Aug. 15.

How many hairs on a person's

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If you are a blonde, 140,000 to 150,000

If you are a brunette, 200,000 to 110,000.

And if you are red-haired, from 40,00 to $6,000,--United Peers.

NOT REPORTED

OFFICER FINED ON

TWO COUNTS

*Lieut. Kettle, driver of private car No. 1744, was summoned before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kownon Magistracy this noting for (a) failing to report an necident to the nearest Police station on July 19 and (b) failing to curry lamps showing a white light at the front at 8 pm, on the sadrie day at Trino Road.

Defendant admitted the summonses, that Lt. Kettle was driving a car Trafic Sergeant Mellaly stated

July 19 when near the Kowloon Re- on the Taipu Rond from Taipo en servoir he ck, a Chinese insan,

struck, causing slight injuries to him. The man was unknown and could not be traced. Three days after the arci- dent, defendant nude. report t Mongkok Police Station. Regarding the second summons, there were no lights at all.

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Asked by the Magistrate why he had delayed reporting the accident, defendant said he was going back to Kowloon that evening and at the time his speed was about four miles per hour. He could not ez very well and the man came out by a corner. Defendant put on his brakes but bumped into the Chinese. He got Ost was badly burt, but the of the car and asked the nran if he only sat by the roadside rubbing his legs. Defendant lifted the man inte his car, but he seemed to be all right and went on his way,

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Defendant did not think anything more of the Incident until a few days inter, when he mentioned to a friend

hud bauf R slight accident. The

PRESS FOR CONCESSIONS, (Continued from Page 1.) not to refer economile questions to Nanking.

Smuggling Curable

Mr. Kawagoe admitted the smug- gling in North Ching, but added that was curable through the revision of "insproper" tariffs.

Meanwhile, from Kuling, where the Executive Yunn is ineeling, word of exemption from the new Chinese In- cials and foreign nationals of less come tax by foreign diplomatie offi-

come does not originate in China,, han than one year's residence, whone in- been received. However, there ex-1

diplomats emptions apply only 40 ani nationala of countries extending treatment to Chinese the ne abroad.

The Executive Yuan also-voted to) collect income tax on salaries and other remunerations of public fune- tionaries and, on the, interest derived from various Government bonds and savings deposits, effective October 1. Other collections start January 1, 1937-United Press.

GOVERNOR IS INDISPOSED

It will be learned with regret that i His Excellency the Governor, Str Androw Caldecoti, is suffering" from shingles on the right temple.

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18, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL

BRITISH HEMP INDUSTRY

NEW MACHINERY INSTALLED

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London, Aug. 20.

An Important stage in the revival

In

MOTOR WIND SCREENS

MUST BE SAFETY GLASS

January

London, Aug. 20.

next, regulations

of his resident in the Colony that he keep oficial and public engagements, murked to-day by the starting up of will make compulsory the use of His Excellency is well enough to of the British flax industry was Issued by the Ministry of Transport The but, owing to facial disfigurement and electrically-driven machinery of the safety glass wind screens on metor friend immediately advised him to discomfort, he has been advised 10 report, and he did so. Defendant's

cancel all large social functions until latest design in the de-seeding section 7.30 p.m. and they further notice. lights were on

of new fax miltà at Dilting in all went ont tilthe Inter He found

Northamptonshire.

afterwards that the side and tail lights and fused and the bend-lights had short ciresited. The only way he

vehlelės.

All vehicles manufactured after

The mills, which will be in full 1931 are fitted with windscreens of The following forthcoming wed-operation by September 7, are part the safety type, but it is estimated could get back to Kowloon was to dings are announced Mr. Perelval of a new industrial venture associated that some 600,000 private and about procvel slowly, sounding his here to Leonard Standley, Salvation Army

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warn people of his approach. When Omeer, efo The Salvation Army, 2 with a carefully-planned agricultural 208,000 commercial vehicles at pre- the lights went out, he was still about Embankment Road, Kowloon, and experiment in the same county. Six sent on the road have ordinary glass miles from Kowloon, but it was Miss Margaret Mabel Thompson, of hundred acres have been town with screens and that probably 500,000 of must yet completely dark..

the same addreas; Mr. Arthur Yale pedigree seed, and, despite adverse these will be continued on the road Acting Trade Sub-Inspector A. R. tine Wong, clerk, residing at 40 Brittain said that defendant had taken Morrison Hill Itond, and Miss Mar-weather, a crop of exceptionally good by their owners, who will have to hos been harvested.have new 'windscreens fitted before A dinner dance will be held on the at a driving Beence unly two days Jurie Quan Lock Lee, of 72 Shuntung quality

British Wireless.

the end of the year.-British Wireless. | before the accident. He added that | Street, Mongkok, open root of Repulse Bay Lido- weather permitting and at Repulses on July 19 was 7.10 p.m.

The Magistrate said it was for de- San Antonio, Aug, 20.

Bay Hotel in

of the event

bad fendant Lo report any arrident Col. Miliard P. Waltz, 79, Chief of woman. Safonova Falviloich, are held weather, on Saturday, August 22, at drsight away. Complications might Statt of the expedition to Cabin and for separate examination and prob-9 pm, and the usual tea dance will t He realised thint the summ- who served in the Philippines cam-jably will be tried on assassination be held on Sunday, at

5 p.m.. Palgu, died to-day-United Preus.

U.S. VETERAN PASSES

Zovieft denied his ant Trotsky's blocs ever split. Both were anta- gonistic to the Communist party.

Meanwhile, it is stated that thirteen Fudditional

Including

persons.

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atuses would never have been taken mt if defondnat had ant made a re- port, but he had to take a serious view of the offence.

Defendant was fined total of $20- on the two summonses.

OTHER CASES

Harry Turner, of the Hume Pipe Company, was summoned for driving private car No. 559 through the con- trolled, area at Tsun Wan at a speed of 30 miles per hour on July #5.' He pleaded guilty.

Acting Trafie Sub-Inspector Brit- tain said that, at the time, 5.20 p.m., there were not many people on the rond. The offence WOR committed Just by the end of the controlled area near the Shing Mun Road. De- fendant had been driving in the Colony for nearly a year.

His Worship fined defendant $30, A line of 87 was imposed on A. S. Banker, who admitted a sumunens of having driven a push bicycle without having full control at Castle Penk -Houd-on-July-24.-A. S.--Drittain- said that defendant was hanging on to the side of lorry No. 242.

QUEEN'S ROAD INCIDENT

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G. H, driver of private car No. 2593, was summoned before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy this morning, for having driven his cur with undue care and caution. along Queen's Road East on August 9. Defendant admitted the suminons. Trame Sergeant Bethel suld that on August 9, defendant was driving along Queen's Road from west 20 cast, und when

the Naval Duck Yard saw

an- other car coming from the opposite direction with lights dimmed. The rond was slightly wet, and defendant stated that he might have been dazzled by the other car's light on the mad. About 50 yards from the Naval-Yard, the Hongkong Telephone Co. were repairing wires, and the road was up, leaving room, enourh for cars to pass. There was a notice board requesting motorists to drive carefully, but defendant apparently did not see this sign, no he knocked the board down, at the same time causing injuries to two coolies of the Company, who received treatment in bosnital for two or three days. The defendant had compensated the coolies and also paid cost of damages to the Telephone Company. Defendant was fined $30.

Son Who Murdered Mother Benefits Under Her Will

BY tho will of Mrs. Lavinia B. Ball,

of St. Helen's-rond, Booterstown, Co. Dublin, who died on or about February 17, 1936, leaving personal estate in the Irish Free State of 21,030 15%, 784 her share of hor father's estato and the residue of her own extate goes on trust to her nona, John C. Preston Ball, of

Marine Park, West Kirby, Cheshire, and Edward Francis Alan Ball, upon their attaining 25 years of age,

Edward was recently found guilty

of his mother's murder, but insane. He is twenty.

The Insanity finding prevents him, from being debarred from benefit.

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Mr. John R. Morris, Far Eastern nianoger for the United Press sociation, arrived in Canton yester day by plane from Shanghai. After a few days there ho will come to Hongkong,

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IN AID OF DISTRESSED VICTIMS OF THE TYPHOON

Under The Patronage. Of.

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