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GLORIA STUART
RAYMOND WALBURN DOUGLAS FOWLEY
JUNE GALE CLARENCE KOLD
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REBUKE FOR Rush To Fight
BISHOP Dangerous War
Views
BRIGHTON.
For Norway
Thousands Offer Aid In London
LONDON, Apr. 16 (Reuter),-So The attitude to the war of the many applications for enlistment in Bishop of Chichester, Dr. Allen Bell, the Norwegian forces have been re- ceived by the Norwegian Legation) was criticised by Earl Winterton here that a special depot is to be when he addressed # meeting at
opened to-morrow to deal with them. Shoreham.
An official of the Legation stated moment it Was only He said that the most dangerous that at the class of people who, by their speeches possible to register volunteers who, of tiny or writings, minimised the moral he understood, could be
nationality. strength of qur cause. comprised some men prominent In Church and They hoped, he said, tater to State. They were dangerous because devise a scheme in association with their methods were more subtle, British offelals for using the men's
"I should not be honest," continued Earl Winterton, "if I did not say that! I fene i must include our own Bishop, where spiritual leadership in things! belonging to God I, as a Churchman, honour and respect, but who is a
services.
A number of Norwegian pilots are rendering on British warships,
THEN ESCAPES
PARIS.
THE ex-gendarme Robert Chartiers, who, after con- fessing he had murdered a [woman by means of a hypo- dermic syringe filled with poison, leaped from a win- dow of the police station in Chartres, and escaped, is being hunted in Paris, where he is believed to be masquerading in his old uni- form.
Several years ago Chartiers fell in love with a pretty divorece in Chartres. Her sixty- TO two-year-old mother, Mine. Hubin, thought he acted queer- ly at times, and frowned on the match.
Listened, Then-
One night in January 1937 Char- ters brought the daughter home, but after she had gone into the house remained near the door to Isten. He heard Mme. Hlubin up-
ond, he said, decided
braid the giri.
to kill her,
small
He had always been interested in chemistry, and hac! laboratory at the home of his father a music professor. Filling syringe with poison, he slipped Into Mme. Hubin's house, grabbed her wie her back was turned and shot the Injection into the re- tion of her heart.
She died almost instantly, he told the police. Then he went home and calmly wrote in a notebook every detall of what he called his "per- feet.crime."
Mme. Hubin's death was officially attributed to heart faire. When war come Chartiers was mobilised.
Anonymous Note
Last week, when he was at home
leave, the police received nn anonymous letter that he had killed two people with poison and syringe.
The chief of police went to Char- tters home, but found nothing in This laboratory, Just as he was leaving, he overheard the mon whis- per to his sister "I threw the poison in the courtyard."
There the police found three tubes of prussic acid and the syringe, and confessed that he had murdered Wes Hubl But murd denied he had killed a second per- Ison.
The pollee, however, say he con-
his comminandbig ofcer and two other men in the army by means of his polson needle.
most uneate guide in matters belong- MUSSOLINI WILL fessed to having planned to polson
ing to Caesar."
[Speaking in the House of Lords
In December Dr. Bell said that those
MAKE SPEECH
o favoured a fight to the bitter ROME, Apr. 10 (Reuter).-Signor
end should weigh what it meant. Mussolini may refer to see
The only benefits would be to the of peace or war in the speech he is forres of Atheism and Communism, expected to make here on Saturday find that I was why the offer of morning on the occasion of the mediation-by the King of the second report of the Commissioner- Belgians and the Queen of Holland General for the exhibition in Rome.
in should be welcomed.]
No Help Wanted Thank You!
Holland And Her East
Indies Possessions
Left Friends-- Kills Baby
A WIFE who was depressed
on the occasion of the first report last year, Il Duce declar- because she could not live near ed that if the Fascist Government her friends killed her two-year- had entertained any thoughts of war, old daughter and committed sui- it would not be proceeding with the cide. gigantic labour of a world exhibition.
Meeting Postponed
The woman, Margarel Jane Par- ker, thirty-one, was found by her 'husband on his return from work, in ROME, Apr. 10 (Reuter).-Pest-her bathroom at Damers-road, Dor- ponement of Saturday's meeting, at chester, Dorset. She and her baby, which Signor Mussolini was to have Jane Valerie, were lying on cushions.
dead. AMSTERDAM, Apr. 18 (Reuter). spoken, is now confirmed.
Mrs. Parker had gassed Jane. -Suggestions regarding foreign help! While newspaper headlines have
Valerie and herself after having for Holland's overseas possessions continued to affirm that Germany 's
sent her other three children to should the Mother Country be in-, consolidating her positions in Nor-
school. vaded are firmly rejected in respon-way, the British communique sible circles.
nouncing the landing of forces is Should Holland ba aver-run, the given the honour of a bold heading East and West Indies will simply be in most papers. the part
of Holland that has not been) conquered, it is stated.
many.
an-
The story was told at the Inquest at Dorchester when Mr. Parker told the coronar that his wife had been upset since they moved..
"All her friends were at Wey- mouth," he said. "She had been depressed, but I thought she was zetting over I
the night before she had been
The "Giornale d'Italia" states that The "Telegraph" writes: "Should it is not possible for a few days to unexpected events in Europe result give a true account of the respective In breaking the connection with the naval losses of the Allica and Ger- Netherlands
Government, the Indian
The "Tribuna" develops the theme very happy." latter is quite capable of continuing
"Let us wait, therefore, Verdict: Murder and suicide white to administer the Indies without help and
says: East Indies for a stabilisation of the military the balance of her mind was dis- or protection. pussess a fleet and army, whose situation. to which, It seems, will be turbed. strength it will be unwise for any linked the final collapse of the first
line of the naval blockade." Power to under-rate."
The
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An official statement 5 according to from the Navy Department to Senale Naval Committee.
the
The planes referred to are slower: and less modern in design: than the best American planes which are now avaliable for purchase by the
Allies.
French Senate's Secret Session
PARIS, Apr. 10, (Reuter)===After a]
sold of £18,305 and £20 for transfer fees the total figure at the credit of Appropriation Account is £64,023.
The Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held on May 30 sharchoiders approve, the when, following
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short adjournment, the Senate went To transfer to Reserve into a secret session to-day on the for Special Repairs
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