1938-12-27 — Page 28

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JUSTICE CANNOT BE DONE"

Counsel's Protest In Arms Charge

ALL three defendants in the

"arms for China" case at Bow-street-Frederick Willing. 50, a Dutch subject and metal merchant, of Tavistock-court. Tavistock square; Dennis Michael Corrigan, 46, agent, of Park-lane; and James Oll Her- bert Willing. 24, metal mor chant, of Dorset-house-were j recently committed to the Old Bailey for trial.

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Bail wat renewed for both Will-

and an application for ball for Corrigan was refused.

The charge against them is that they conspired, between December 1, 1937, and May 30, 1938, with Chou! Tin Shu and others unknown, to cheat and defraud M. Theodore Lat-, file, mild to be the monnger of a is a second well-known firm of Paris armament agents, of £7,950. There charge of obtaining £7,250 by false pretences and attempting to gel £4,000 from M, Lafitte.

"DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGE"

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

MOUNTAIN

CRACKS, KILLS

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-

VANCOUVER

German passenger and freight ship Vancouver, sunk in Oakland ctuary at San Francisco, after a mysterious blast ripped a ping hole in her bow. Hnd the explosion occurred a few minutes later, the ship, carrying geven 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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Justice cannot be done," ho said, "If the Chinese Embassy is going to shelter behind its diplo- matlo privileges in this way." [It had been alleged that Mr. Shu was represented to be an important official of the Chinese Embassy in London and head of a Chinese Com-ly island in the Windward group mission for buying armaments in

were organised for rescue work Europe

but disaster overtook one of the 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

dead and the rescuers, many of Cann for the Willings it was possi

a mountain crashed down with a terrific roar and buried two! St. Lucia villages under thou-{ sunds of tons of rock and earth. All the resources of this love-

TESTIMONIAL OF “MR. SHU."

ble that his bank gave the follow-whom were killed. ing testimonial of Shu!

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

SWEPT INTO RIVER

A third landslide threw 50 labour- ers into a river, and engulfed seres

Mr. Du Cann submitted that as of land. Frederick Willing was a Dutch sub- As ject accused of defrauding a French

the mountain split like 3

which was extra-territorini, the mat-gigantic piece of cake and crumbled ter was not one which came within into the valley hundreds of people the jurisdiction of an English court, were trapped in homes and streets.

Twenty miles away is the smoul- dering volcano of Soufriere, but whether this had anything to do with! the disaster it is impossible to say, One report says heavy rains loosened the earth, but others tell of a distant' rumbling before the landslide, which suggested subterranean vulcante dis- turbances.

Peggotty's House May Be Saved

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

It has just been put into good re-

Doctors and police, led by Ad- ministrator. Arthur Wright, waded' walstdeep in roud and water to give ald to the injured. The recent rains) had already flooded parts of the! Island.

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

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BRITISH SINCE 1803

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pair after a lonst period in which office report on St. Lucia for 1937 people. feared for its future.

kre

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

He passed the "boat-house" fre- 'quently.

woa Issued in London last night.

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greatest breadth. 1ts i miles at its population numbers $1,000.

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the ngo smuggler's boat as Its top floor. A'British formed their first settlement window space has been cut in the on the Island. One year later all the

stern.

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