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THE

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MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938.

KAISER WAS WARNED BY KING GEORGE V.

Would Not Allow Attack on Friends

King George V. warned the Kaiser two years before the war that if Germany and Austria made war against Russia and France, Britain would not stand aside.

George V. is revealed as an outspoken diplomat in Volume 10 of British Documents on the Origin of the War. On December 8, 1912, he wrote to Sir Edward Grey from York Cottage, Sandringham, marking his letter "Private":

short

"My Dear Grey, Prince Henry of Prussia paid me a visit here two days ago.. He asked me point blank whether. In the event of Germany and Austria going to war with Russia and France, England would come to the aid of the two latter Powers. I answered Undoubtedly yes, under certain Atances'

"He said he would tell the Em-

whint 1

perur

told him OL course, Germany nuust know that of our we could not allow either friends to be crippled

"FORTUNATE" REPLY

Sir Edward Grey answered "Private. Str Elward Grey pre- sents his humbe duly Str Edward Grey thinks that it would he danger- ous and misterling to let the German Government be under the impression that under no circumstances would England come to the assistance of ausch France and Russia if Germany Austria went to war with them, and

circum-

"Nonsense" About Racial Purity

English Claim Stronger

...Profe sanr

Nordle nonsense' is how the din he thinks it very fortunate that tinguished anthropolog bet.

was able to give nu F, G. Your Majesty

Parsons, describes

answer to Prince Heary that will claims to racial purity. prevent him from giving pression at Berlin "

Th

KAISER IMPRESSED

The Kaiser

imprited by King George's reply to his brother Writing to Sir Edward Grey of a moeting with the King. St A. Nien- son said:

"Ilis Majesty read to me a long letter from Prince Henry recording that he had communicated to the German Emperor the opinion which

CZECHS IN PREPARATION--Ever-present threat of war or Invasion causes the people of Czecho-Slovakia to prepare for an emergency and these women at a training school in Olomouc learn to use gas masks and to give first aid to injured. One German newspaper recently asserted that Czecho-Slovakia would not last a year, Intimating annexation by Germany.

Don't put off until to-morrow What should be done to-day!

Protect yourself against TYPHOID and CHOLERA

Gets 12 Years For

(BAYER

Chaplin 'Brutal Killing' of Husband

Edward Boyle Chaplin, lover of Mrs. Georgina May Casserly |

was sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude for the manslaughter EMPIRE

of Percy Arthur Casserley. The charge of murder was reduced to manalaughter.

The jury were asserit nearly Professor hours. 40 thetr return Hitler's settled on the tense court

E

Try dont were Nude blond left in the many,

MANO

1

Tay

two

was

so still that we could distinetly hear; Chaplin's boots clicking along the any stone currile leading from the cells.

be to the rock stairs

+1

11 mendi completely mest

misfire with the Central Euro-

peas Alpane, a fundamentally differ erd rastal type

"England Su a great dead of Neu- blood, et practically no Alpine

This dispose

tradition

mere is a rou-dishty between England and Gennung

the King had expressed to Prince landed down without thinking. That Henry at Sandringhero in regard to our helping our friendaman opinion, the King said to me this mornity. which I as an honest man was bourart: to give.'

"I entirely agreed with 10m. "Prince Henry said that the Em- peror had been struck by what the

COMPARISON

The Nordies, sand Professor Par

are fair sons, have long henne,

kur, spletuid gates and even- turers, grent individualists, but with

*Hist

For a fraction of

second. when he turned to the court. Chaplia scanned the faces of the Jury

blank.

They told him nothing self-parimekotan, as if they were afront of the secret they were masking!

In key to the clerk's for mad gums on the foreman, a burly man

clean. black stat, episent low "Not guilty

Titan

Nun Vow of Dying Girl

In Green

"I am going to be a mum and God has shown me the way."

NEWS

PARTY TACTICS IN BENGAL

Calcutta Political MANLAATOS in Bengal have reached an exciting stage. A conference is taldrug place of parties Interested In the formation of a Coalition Ministry to replace the present Moslem Government.

The 24 members of the scheduled

group .ก The This was a passage in a note castes

Legislative left by Miss Muriel Joy Skyrne, urters of the Government, are now Assembly, hitherto consistent suj- Then the cork asked "Do you that! the priser guilty of malighter 32-year-old shorthand typist, of in the closest touch with the Cun-

Cross Road, Bushey, Herts, the gresa party.

who was! "Woman in Green," found dying on the Wiltshire place during the week-end between

"chalte." replied the foreinon

'MERCIFUL VIEW

Chaplin abd not

Mineh 1 las

asked if he had anything to say, and his voer was steady "No, the "

A sigh of pent-up esnotion

went

Mr Justice

I wna.

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King had said, but stili inore by the remarkable capacity or ashuplatics and the court, hushed again by the was Insufficient evidence to show how also closeted for hours with the Home hnd used practically precisely the leads, are dark, dortle and sedentary, Humphreys's scarlet-clad arts as he. secorded of the inquest at

fact that aldane, on the same day, same tanguage to Prince Lichnowsky (German Amassador at London).

Alpines have short, round

They are with a dislike of the sen good fighters, but seldom fight unless they are absolutely sure of victory Above all, they are prolific, beceding under conditions intolerable to the Noctites.

"The Emperor observed that he now knew where he stood: that he was always in favour of peace; but in view of the possible or probable.

"The mentality of these two types, attitude of Great Britain in future complications he could not be blamed erly differeal," he continued, If we were to make every prepara-"Nobody, for example, could possibly tion to meet every possible even-istike Gorcing for a Nordic." tuality...

LONGEST HEADS-

I

A verdict that death was due to disinfectant poisoning, but that there

moremen slow

the prison wis administered, was

folded them before him

I minster. Edward toyul Chaplin," he said

"the jury

taken have slowly. merciful view of your case.

"do not quarrel with that view, but you killed that man. and you killed him brutally.

The sentence of the Court is that you be kept in prmal servitude

12 years

A

Mr. John K. B. Skyrme, of Oxury, Watford. stated that on Saturday morning the sleeve of his sister's dressing-gown caught fire and her left arm was burned. At 8.50 she went but, ostensibly to see he doctor. She, for was not seen again.

Almost before the Judge'n words died away Chaplin bad swung on his Professor Parsons mensred the hand hurried down the cell stairs, after on Mr. Winston Churchill, then First! heads of thousands of German war the three warders hastening Lord of the Admiralty, are reported prisoners and found that even those him

Caustic comments by the Katmer

by Captain Hugh Watson, a young who came from Schleswig-Holstem, naval attache, after a conversation the with the Kaiser.

"Nordin cradle," Fact hends brander and shunter than the average Englishmat.

FRESH ORDEAL

Express in Collision-The driver and the Bremen of an express train 19 other persons were killed and injured in a railway colliaton to-day, miles from Jubbulpore. No 76 Europeans were among the victims. The collision occurred between the 42 S., IN HANDBAG

Allahabad-Bombay express and So far as he knew his sister had goods engine.~Reuter. ver been in the Warminster district South Africa before afid she had no friends there. The Coroner: Was she a religious girl-Mr. Skyrme: No. She occasion- ally went to church, but she had no

He went to a fresh ordeal. Below church activities,

in the cells, his solleitor, Mr. Baker,; When his sister left home she had a tell him that his handbag containing about £2 5s. and Was waiting to "The English have the longest heads father, 71-year-old Henry Samueli a gold wristlet watch, in Europe, declined the professor, Chaplin, bád died two days before ut He could not account for her death, who added that the Nurdle type Is] his home at Sution,

but thought she might be suffering the Eastern and

from shock as a result of her burds, most prevalent in Northern Counties.

This was marked "Seeret."

the- The Kaiser remarked "very cidedly that he had not asked the First Lord to Kiel Regatta, but that the First Lord seemed to have a habit of turning up uninvited, as he had done at the Kaiser Manoeuvres."

The Kaler also said he did not know how to take the First Lord: what he said to him he thought Mr. Churchill transposed later. "He was fellow

Profesor Parsons is research

in anthropologu at SL.

a man who could not be trusted--he Thomas's Hospital, and late president turned 15 points to often."

Girls Debate Short

Skirts

New York.

Old Blends With New

Entil that moment Chaplin bud known nothing of his father's condition. Atick at his drath, his father did not know that his son was standing trial on a charge of marder.

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by

SEARCH FOR WATCH

£6,000,000 HOUSING SCHEME BEGUN

Cape Town.

*

A beginning has been made with Cape Town's housing scheme, which is to cost £6,000,000. It aims at the construction of 12,000 houses for the re-housing of slum dwellers over a period of 12 years.

The first section of the scheme has A constable said the police had been started in the heart of the searched the Downs in vain for the worst slums, where huge blocks of handbag and watch which were miss-nats will be erected, ing.

The coroner suld

There was no

Rhodesian Union-References to

Mr. Justice Humphreys took two starboard too of the section of anthropology of the and a half hours to direct the jury,

might be that the amalgamation of Northern and Brittal Association.

He suggested that the jury should the woman had thrown away her bag Southern Rhodesta have been made. experiment when they retired

a banquet getting a tall man to stand up and and watch in order to prevent herself by Mr. Huggins, Prime Minister of

Southern being ecognised.

am personally seciny: f

shorter taun could get his evidence on which to decide whether in Bulowy sin t hend on level with the other's

the committed suicide or what was antisfied," said Mr. Huggins, "that stomach.

the state of her mind,

nothing less than complete amalga- They would, then be able to see if

"The better course," he added, mation is in any way practicable. Athens, Tenn. it were possible to get into the posi would be to bring in an open verdiet because we cannot give up any free- on tion described by Chaplin, or whether and leave the matter there for other dom we have won. I am out-and- Are girls wearing their skirts too Tennessee Wesleyan College to the it would not be necessary to get be people to find out, if they can, the out amalgamationist." short? Hunter College studenta suy

strident call of an electric beli hind in order to deliver the blows.

previous history." "no:" The overwhelming defeat of

THE WOMAN'S SOBS the proposition, "Resolved, that skirts system, but the mellow tones of an should be three inches longer," at old iron bell still sound opening and

Later Mrs. Casserley's nume a muck debate held at the college clusing of the school day. The bell

on and the Old College Halt have been called. sentiment

inseparable since 1872.

indiented

feminine

number of years.

Students

invarch 10 classes

WOMAN SAYS FISH

FRYING IS AN ART

HELPED TO WIN THE WAR

now has a turnover of £3,000 a year, Fish frying is an art like tenching."

After the annual meeting in private

was

She came into court supported by a woman probation officer, a doctor and a matron.

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Great

Britain wear from the market. The duty glow of the hair peeping from under since the war, Sir Kingsley Wood, in this case is raised from 20 per her hat,

Health Minister, reveals in the latest cent or 3 a pair, whichever Issue of the "Iloine and Empire." | Kreuter. He declared the figure has not been gain, at the expense of Australia, equalled or even approached, in any trade in clothing, hardware, elec- other country,

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struggle industry in their agalnat overseas competition. Con- sumers here are compelled either to pay higher duties or higher prices for locally manufactured goods.

Mr. A. St. John Hutchinson, her counsel, told the Judge (hai she would plead guilty to the third charge in the indictment against her that of misprision of felony. This was accepted by the prosecution.

Her sobbing "Gulity" was barely

nt which the secrets of the business audible, presumably were discussed, the dele- gatey enjoyed lunch with Ash (but

UNHAPPY LIFE'.

no chips), at which the Lord Mayor "One cannot shul one's' eyes to

inan came, be affection."

captured hrr

LENIENCY APPEAL

In a sharp tone he said:

Lansing, Mich.

Mr. St. John Hutchinson said:

He appealed for leniency on the the grounds

that

she had suffered of Manchester wholeheartedly de- fact that there are few people who, enough. clared himself as a chip and fish en-in her position, would not have done Mrs. Casserley was still caning -Federation Claims thusiast.

what she did.

weakly forward on the dock rall Among delegaten representing

THE FRIERS' SACA

"She is a woman of irreproachable when the Judge addressed her. She Traffic Conduct Taught 10,000 fish and chip friers at the silver Jubilee of the National Federn- He was handed one of the gold character. She married her hus did not raise her head. tion of Fish Friers in Manchester re-covered souvenir handbooks printed band in 1927, living met him in 1925.

"Far be it from me to say anything "A great mnay people have trented A course in traffic conduet and cently was a woman, the Arst in 25 to mark the jubilee conference, which! years, Mrs. Noon! Rotherwell, of will last three days and in which the against Mr. Casserley, but we know you as though you were a heroine. driving technique has been instituted now that he fell a victim to the In fact, you have been a participator here at the junior high school to Doncaster.

saga of British fish friers was re- drink habit and she had u

difficult

In a sordid intrigue.

teach the fundamentois of actual "I gave up being a school-mistress | corded.

Cx* when

"I am not going to treat you with driving. Although the children - Br shc told the News I told how the Federation was and unhappy life. She was an

Jentency because of your condition. too young to drive. It is believed Chronicle. "My husband and formed in 1913, how it survived the cellent wife, as the maid says. daughters ran a Ash and chip busi-disastrous

It is because I do not think you had the course will enable them to drive (when of 1918

anything to do with the death of your more intelligently when they become neas. To inke up my income I potatoes were shart), how fish and!

husband." added a confectionery business, which chips helped to wh the war.

of age.

year.

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