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JUSTICE CANNOT BE DONE" QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

Counsel's Protest In Arms Charge

ALL three defendants in the

"arms for Chind" case at! Bow-street-Frederick Willing. 50, a Dutch subject and metal! merchant, of Tavistock-court, Tavistock squuro; Dennis Michael Corrigan, 46, agent, of Park-lane; and James Oll Her- bert Willing. 24, metal mer chant, of Dorsel-house--wers! recently committed to the Old Bailey for trial.

They all pleaded not guilty and reserved their defence.

Bail why renewed for both Will- ings, and an application for bail for Corrigan was refused.

The charge against them is that they conspired, between December 1,; 1937, and May 30, 1938, with Chou! Thu Shu And others unknown, to i cheat and defraud M. Theodore Lat- ttle, said to be the manager of a well-known firm of Paris armament agents, of £7.250. There is a second

MOUNTAIN

charge of obtaining £7,250 by false i CRACKS, KILLS

pretences and attempting to

4,000 from M. Lantte.

"DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGE"

Mr. Du Cann said at the close of the hearing that the Chinese Em- bassy pleaded diplomatic privilege and refused to give evidence.

HUNDREDS

ST. LUCIA-(West Indies).

No stone should be left unturnedUNDREDS of people, were

to bring somebody from the Embassy to speak about "Mr. Shu."

killed and many were in-

ANGONVER

German passenger and freight ship Vancouver, stank in Oakland" estuary at San Francisco, after a mysterious binst ripped a gaping bele in her bow. Had the explosion occurred a few minutes later, the ship, carrying seven passengers and a crew of 54, would have reached deep water Six Investigations were begun to determine the cause of the blast. Four of the engine room crew were reported injured.

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a mountain crashed down with terrific roar and buried two

"Justice cannot be done," he Hald, "it the Chinese Embassy is going to sheller behind its diplo-

St. Lucia villages under thou- matic privileges in this way" (I had been alleged that Mr. Shu sands of tons of rock and earth.. was represented to be an important

All the resources of this love- othelal of the Chinese Embassy in London and head of a Chinese Com-ly island in the Windward group mission for buying armaments: were organised for rescue work

but disaster overtook one of the TESTIMONIAL OF "MR. SHU." Mr. Andrew Aitken, assistant volunteer parties when, after 45 manager of the Chase National Bank, bodies had been recovered, a of the City of New York, Lombard-second landslide swept away the street, E. C., recalled, told Mr. Du

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Cant for the Willings it was possidend and the rescuers, many of ble that his bank gave the follow-whom were killed.

tag testimonial of Shu:

"The above is very respectable and keeps a satisfactory accaint with us. judging from which we consider him good for his engagements."

SWEPT INTO RIVER

A third landslide threw 59 Babour- crs into a river and engilted neresi that asi of land.

Mr. Du Camp Submitted Frederick Willing was a Dutch sub-

jeet accused of defrauding a French)

As the mountain split Uke a which was extra-territorial, the mat-nie plece of cake and crumbled ter was not one which came within the valley hundreds of people the jurisdiction of an English court.

Peggotty's

House May Be Saved

The famous boathouse which stands on the edge of Gravesend Canal and is believed to have inspired the "Peggotty's house" of "David Cop- perfield," may be offered to the Dickensian Society for preservation.

It has just been put into good re- pair after a long period in which people feared for its future.

Charles Dickens spent his honey- Moon at Chalk, a short distance away, and visited Walle's Hotel in the other direction.

He passed the "boat-house" rc- quently.

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The quaint structure, which has been condemned as a dwelling for some years, has

upturned smuggler's boat as its top floor. A window space has been cut in the stern.

Recently "Peggotty's house" has bern used on a work's canteen.

were trapped in homes and streets.

Twenty miles away the smoul- dering volcano of Soufriere, but whether this had anything to do with the disaster is Impossible to say. One report says heavy rains Ingenud the earth, but others tell of a distant

obling before the landslide, which i saggested subletranean volcanie dis- turbances.

Destins and police, led by Ad- ministrator Arthur Wright, Waded walstdeep in mud and water to give aid to the injured. The recent rains; bad already flooded parts of the

island.

Schools and houses have been thrown open to refugees and a sub- scription list bas been started on their behalf.

BRITISH SINCE 1803

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