1937-12-14 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1937.

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A police constable described ut West London police court recently how he Rugby-tackled a man accused of stealing a collection of banknotes valued at £15,000.

Harold Jones, 33, described as n

Germany Paid

glass blower, address refused, was £1,010,000,000

charged with stealing 101 volumes

various coun-

and glass-cases-containing togel

40,000 bank notes of

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tries, the property of Mr. Frederick

The its sheer beauty and lasting quality-the hosiery Ernest Catling, a cinema proprietor.

aggrekate amount paid by Jones, who reserved his defence. Germany in respect of reparation that is so universally associated with the name was committed for trial. He was and costs of occupation was 20,598,- offered ball in two sureties of C100000,000 cold marks-£1,010,000,000 cach.

at the old par of exchange, Lieuten- Colonel Colville. Financial Secretary to the Treasury, stated in Mr. Frederick George Calling, wona written answer in the House of of the owner of the Avonmore Commons. Collection," said that during Septem- He added that it was not possible ber his father's town house in Avon- to give figure for the United King- more Hood, West Kensington, WIE dom alone, which was strictly com- corators. The volumes were kept. Our records included the surplus there in an asbestos steel-lined safe of liquidated ex-German property Britain, but excluded receipts an account of costs of occupation which could not be distinguished without great labour. On this On

basis our total receipts from

German reparation payments On thele instructions, he advertised were £122,000,000, in a newspaper, and next day an- The aggregate amount paid by other letter arrived. Acting on in-Great Britain to the United States In structions given in that letter, he respect of the war debt, Including bought a a green attache-case and de- token payments, was £410,000,000 at posited it at King's Cross Station.

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On September 22 he found the safet broken open and the contents gone. On October 23 he received a letter demanding £500, which he took to the police.

F. C C. Ronald Crocker said he say Jones receive a green leather at- tache-case at King's Cross Station.

When Jones saw him he ran away, throwing the Cisc at him. The

In

Night Hunters Fined

Pueblo, Colo. officer said he threw his arms around Heavy night shooting of rabbits Jones's legs und brought him to the has caused a crusade by peace ground, and after a struggle he was authorities in this area against the over-powered,

sport. The usual fine for persons Inspector Sands said that in a lock-convicted of night hunting is $35. up garage, which he opened with a Farmers complained against the key taken from Jones, he found five practice because it endangered live- books containing the collection.

stock.

Is Selassie Still King Or Just Refugee?

JEW ISSUES WRIT AGAINST HIM

Is Haile Selassic still Emperor of Abyssinia? Or is the just a royal refugee from the country that Italy has

conquered?

Is he a wealthy man or is he penniless, with no pros- pects of raising money from anywhere?

These questions of internation-

al significance may be decided

by the gh Court as a result of

IL welt just issued. BOYK the Sunday Despatch.

The writ has been taken out by Mr. Leo Y. Chertok, 36-years-old | -squaro-jawed-- American--Jew,-who. took a prominent part in a plan to lease a large part of Abyssinin to a group of International financiers about two years ago.

Rebel Sheik

Hid In Wheat

Bin Of Harem

Bearded, six-foot-four Shelk Far- Mr. Chertok abandoned his plan in han es Sandi was a member last year October Inst year, and on a visit to of a rebel Arab court-martial who London he was quoted as saying that passed death sentences on many they he would relinquish all claims to the considered traitors to their cause: mineral and other rights in the 15,009 now he has been sentenced to death square miles of Ethiopian territory by a court-martial,

he bought for £1,000,000 in 1935.

He was the first to be sentenced

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in England and abroad as the purest His estimate of the cost of doing so The shelk, with three of his follow-

çin obtainable. was £500,000, which he said he ers, fugitives ever since the troubles would have got from "banker's com- of 1936, fell into the hands of a com-

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Now he alleges that Haile Selassie owes hlm £23,000 for cash advanced and commission.

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And when the writ is served, Haile)

When he saw the game was up Sclassic con' do one of two things:

Refuse to defend the action Saadi, who is said to have been which means that Mr. Chertok will armed with revolvers and a Verey get judgment by default; or

light pistol, threw down his weapons," : Enter an appearance through his murmuring the proverb, solicitor and defend the action in no power save Allah's."

"There is the High Court,

law says that no court in The sheik had served as a police- this

country has jurisdiction over aman under the British before turn- ! Bovereign.

ing rebel, says the Daily Express. It Halle Selassie decides to make He co-operated with n gang which this preliminary issue, it will be killed a constable in December, then left to the court to decide whether foined Fawzi Kawkagi's insurgent Mr. Chertok can continue with his forces, in which he led a body of cialm, or, in other words the courthorsemen.

will have to decide if Halle Selasate

la ail Emperor of Abyssiriin.

Aunt Savos Boy From Bull

Timo, O.

George Zels, 18, was saved from an enraged bull by his aunt, - Mrs. Blanche Burd, who drove away the animal with a pitchfork. Zeis was knocked down and trampled by the bull. He suffered severe bruises and a fractured, rib.

Family Apart 51 Years

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Milton, Pa. Grant Thornton, of Clearwater, Fla., recently visited two stators heré for the first time in 51 years. Thorn- ton left Milton at the age of 7 for the Southern city,

Did Baby's Birth Cause

Air Crash?

liner at Ostend the other week, In That the wreck of the Belgian air which the Grand Duke of Hesse and his wife were among the 11 persons killed, was due to the fact that the Grand Duchess hnd given birth to a. child during the flight, reports in the French press suggest.

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