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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY

GUNMEN MURDER TRIAL WITNESS

ORGANISED TERRORISM

BY EMPLOYERS

Gunmen have wiped out State's evidence in the "Bloody" Harlan County trial, in which U.S. colliery owners are accused of terrorising trade unionists with hired thugs.

Lewis Smithers, ex-trade union official, was to have told his story for the prosecution in the tiny court room at London, where the trial of 44. men and 19 colliery companies is taking place.

But he was shot dead at Harlon, 80 miles from London, and the chlef town in "Blondy" Harlan county.

Another Government witness 03- caped from would-be kidnappers who drove up to him in a cor.

Two brothern, both miners, have been arrested and accused of killing Smithers. They are said accused him of aquealing.

Almost

to

have

at

it the moment when Smithers, formerly attached tu United Mineworkers' being murdered, evidence which times took away the breath even of prosecuting fawyers уля given at the trial,

During the latest court session one witness stated that

had been offered a bribe of money and a good Job If he would promise to "forget" what he knew of a certain murder

case.

he

HE SAVED HITLER AND

MUSSOLINI

the HERMANN WOEHL, an Alaa- Union, was tian, who is now a French citizen and passed into the being French Army reservo, has one of the world's most unusual dis- tinctions. It

established ia beyond doubt that both Hitler and Mussolini owe their lives to him, according to the People.

Miners, apparently overcoming for the first Ume their fear of reprisals, are following one another into the courtroom and relating in [I rich mountain dialect astonishing tales of bloodshed and corruption.

Even

adding: testimony. The pretty yong of a grocer's clerk told the how one of the defendants asked her i

women

are

thetr wife

to 26

to lure union organisers out

lven pince on a lonely road where

On the surface the claim may secm an impossible one, but thus late in the day i has been aifted by both the dictators who simul- taneously, mosi probably after comparing notes during their re-

meeting. cent Rome

wrote to Woel, accompanying their let. lers with the offer of the Iron Cross and the Faselst Medal for Merit,

As French reservist Woehl was consent of his mincy chiefs hefore replying to was the offer, and they in turn referred

they could be caught and presumably obliged to seek the benten up or shot.

she

The young woman sair

offered £20 for each union organiser the matter to the Ministry of War

she brought out.

STRIKE BREAKING Harlan County, coal and trata mining area. carted Itx $ite of "Bloody" in the long struggle of the,

anti-union pro-union employees, which is coming to

trial now taking place.

in Paris, which has now forbidden Woehl to accept either distinction.

The facts are simplc.

HITLER SURROUNDED

On mobilisation at the outbreak of

heast In the war, Woch was sent to the Eastern

Front in accordance with the Ger-

It has been estimated that 80,000 man polley of nvalding desertions by Dersons earn a ving in the United refoluing from asking Aisations to

States to-day by spying on workers fight against France.

and their organisations, Proprie-

$

tors

In the carly morning of Apr. 18,

Bre also known Lo enrol 1910, Wochi was serving with the

gangsters to act да

ان

armed strike company in which Hitler was then a breakers. Murder, Blogging and kid- non-commissioned officer. napping are the methods these "storm troopers" of industry.

In the confusion the future dicta- Kentucky, of which Harlan County tor was separated from his men and is part, is a Southern-Central State found himself surrounded by a party in the Mississippi Valley.

Leper Isle Heroines

TWO women missionaries,

working night and day, are tending 800 lepers on a lake island in Uganda.

Their heroic task was described by Mr. A. C. Edgar, Toe H. official, when he arrived in England after a three- months tour of African leper colonies.

of Russians.

Woch went to his aid and arrived in time to kill a Russian who was about to bring down Hitler, who had been disarmed in the meice.

He

afterwards aided the future dictator

TRADE

SHOP GIRL WEDS PRINCE

Special permission had to be obtained from King Victor Em-

di Paliano, manuel before Prince Guido Colonna

Fallon Vice Consul at Toronto, Cau, could marry Miss Taliana Cunus, in New York, as above, The bride is the daughter of Jules L. Conus, Itusstun plardst, and former Russian Princess Mary Lleven, and worked as a Fifth Avenue shop girl.

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BLAME IN SMASH

Charges Against Signalman

^ signalman was "gravely tu blame," блун Lieut.-Col. A. H. L.; Mount, Ministry of Transport in-

Irr his

the report on spector, Castlecary railway accident, in which 36 passengers were killed and 179 suffered injuries or shockt.

The disaster occurred in a blizzard an December 10, when the Edin-i burgh-Glasgow express over-ran the home signal at danger and crashed at 60 miles an hour into the back of

standing Just beyond the platform.

A Model Sailor

Who Killed His Father

Judge Urges Navy. To Take Him Back

Bristol

Fred Sayers, the model sallor who killed his father to protect his sisters, W119 sentenced to nine months imprisonment at Bristol Assizes recently.

became his advocate, pleading to the As he passed sentence the Judge Navy to take bacit Fred Sayers when

to regain the German lines in safe-the Dundee to Glasgow express, justice has been done.

ty.

At the time Wochl was recoin-

Fred, aged twenty-one a handsome mended for a decoration, but for Col. Mount says: "Three men had sailor of H.M.S. Forester, raced to some reason or other there was de- to participate in varying degrees be- his home in Bristol in response to lay in giving effect to the recom- for the collision took placen letter from his mother which told:

primarily Signalman A, Sneddon, and him that his father had interfered mendation.

Only recently Was the incident to 通 lusser extent Drivers D with his older sister and was threa- brought 10 the notice of Hitler Macaulay (of the Dundee train) and; tening similar action against through an article in a German pa- D. Anderson (of the Edinburgh younger sister. per whose correspondent had traced Wochl and interviewed him.

train),"

the

Col.

There

was

A struggle. Fred Discussing!

evidence,

seized an axe and killed bis father, BLEEDING TO DEATH

Mount states: "I think the fairest JUDGE'S "MOST EARNEST HOPE" conclusion is that Signalman Sned- The ense of Mussolini came near

The jury found him innocent of Udine in 1917, in the middle of thedon, being considerably perturbed at Bath women belong to the Church debacle on the Italian Front follow the idea that the Dundee train was murder, urged mercy as they found

ing Caporetto, Wochl was with one of not going to stop, misled himself intoj him guilty of manslaughter. the German units sent to strengthen believing what he Imagined to be the the Austrians.

Missionary Society, he said.

One is a teacher, the other is res- ponsible for medical work.

In July of that year, while work Ing with a stretcher party collecting wounded, he came on an Italian soldier bleeding to death.

case that because he assumed the train had passed into the section, the track clreuit indicator must have been clear.

In brief. Signalman Sneddon was gravely to blame:

FOUR DAY WAIT "If a serious operation is necessary, there is only one doctor within hun dred of miles," said Mr. Edgar.

"The women may have to wait' The other bearers were all for four days before he can get to the ignoring the Italien, but Wochl ban- "(a) For accepting the Edinburgh Island."

daged him and stopped the bleeding. "There are 12 Toc H men living in Later Mussolini was picked up by express without clear knowledge of leper colonies, on meagre salaries. Italian stretcher bearers. He had the position of the Dundee train, and Their medical knowledge taken the name of Woch before the while actually expecting an accident!

to the latter. slight, but they do much in mony

latter had gone away, other ways to make life more endur- uble for the sufferers."

is

Mr. Edgar hopes that as a result of his tour a new plan will be drawn up to help the African leper.

"CORPSE

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The article in the German paper was published in Rome some time ago and came to the notice of Mus- solini, who could only confirm the truth of the claim,

ASKED

"(b) For accepting the Edinburgh express without warning, even if he had known what had happened to the Dundee train, when he had eruze to suspect the reliability of distant algnal."

the

"I desire to express publicly_the most carnest hope," said Mr. Jus- tico Finlay, "that after you have served the sentence you may be restored to your profession." The Navy agrees with the Judge, For Fred was the perfect rating and the model shipmate. He joined the Navy at sixteen, became clerk on board the Forester to Lieutenant Monisty.

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TROOPS

PURSUE RAIDERS

Eight

Dead At Hands

Of Arabs

Jerusalem, July 21. Five people were killed when un armed band of Arabs attacked the Kiryatharoshet Jewish Settlement near Haifa last night,

It is understood that there were several casualties among British troops during a subsequent clash. As he was in prison awaiting Another armed band raided trial for murder, he learned that labour camp in southern Palestine, he had passed an exam. for promo-killing three Jews and wounding two. tion to warrant-officer.

HERO TO HIS SHIPMATES To his shipmates Fred was a hero, They collected funds for his defence. organised a football mitch to raise Col. Mount adds that there is the money. His commander wrote to his

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Police and troops are in pursuit of the raiders.United Press.

QUIET IN JERUSALEM

London, July 21. Reports reaching the Colonial Ofce

POLICE significant coincidence that Anderson mother: "I will do everything in my from Palestine show that while there

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has been soma arson in Gallies, quiet has returned in Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa and Tel-Aviv.

stable. No bomb was found on him.

the Jafa-Tel-Aviv boundary area on Arab was arrested yesterday carrying a bomb. Late last night un armed Arab band attacked the Jewish settlement of Haifa on the Jenin road, setting fire to two houses and causing the death of one mall, two women and two children. One of the band was killed-British Wire-

accepted the signet in good faith as power to help your son.” clear, as did Macaulay before him. Two women were in court as Fred Col. Mount, referring to all-steel was sentenced: his mother and his

In Haifa town yesterday morning couches, adds: "Such rapid progress fiancee, Phyllis Davle. is now being made in the use of high Cabot-street, Bristol, a house

I saw Phyllis in Fred's home in a Jew suspected of currying a bemb POLICE and boatmen at Net- Afterwards Miss Bruce, who is tensile steels, alloys, and welding,

that and failed halt when challenged was ley Abbey, Hampshire, telephone operator living at Nelley that the time should not be for dis-had become a home of joy, writes a shot and wounded by an Arab con- were looking recently for abbey, discussed the little adventure tan; when insumeleney of strength, correspondent. She said.

"I am sure that Fred will get and four-mile swim that, unknown and unreasonably increased weight, corpse that would fit a set of to her, had caused such alarm,

back to the Navy. But whether -cost, and maintenance, will no longer girl's clothing and a bicycle

render STUCK IN MUD

ho does or not, I know that we impracticable the

have years of happiness ahead." found on the bench there... "As I had the day off I decided to general use of light-weight all-metal|

The Navy seldom wants back itu soid.

construction.

wrong-doers. But And then the "corpse," still go for a swim,"

саяс is "Half way looking attractive, in spite of water I decided not to turn bucks, but "It is misleading, however, to sug- different.

"It is almost certain," I was told borrowed garments, stepped to strike out for the New Forest side gest that such construction would

have withstood the terrifle shock of by an Admiralty official, "that Sayers off a bus and claimed the another two miles. clothes and the bicycle.

"The tide, was not coming in very this collision any better than the will go back."

SO MUCH THE BETTER FOR fast, and when approached the heavy steel underframes and limber

THE NAVY. When the clothes were found on the beach the police were informed. shore I found I was treading in soft bodies of the conches concerned."

An old sea salt, sald that about an hour or two earlier he had young girl shed her dres, and he re- membered that underneath she had nbathing costume.

seen

Then he saw her go off for a swim In Southampton Water.

SWAM FOUR MILES With fears of another bathing fata- lity Inquiries were started all along the coast.

It was then, however, that 20-year- 'old Miss Sylvia Bruce stepped of the

bus and calmly said:

"Please, I want my clothes,"

mud.

across Southampton

"I got the wind-up and shouted os loud

as I could for help, because I was knee-deep and things were not getting any better.

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home in lettere mailed by Table-director, but his triple official role is was rescued by To Kum, a senman, "I was very surprised when I quch's Junior Chamber of Commerce. not approved by the Court of Ap-who jumped into the water and held learned the villagers had been in it the object of search turn up, it penis. The city monoger has sole for up until they were pulled aboard quiring about a corpse because of my will be used on a run from here to authority to name the directors, but a junk. bicycle and clothing being found on Muskogee celebrating the 1001 an- the court held that he could not per- The woman was later sent to the the beach,"

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