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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1922, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL

GIRL -PRINCESS. BERLIN, -May IT. Princess Yalc.xtina Gagarin has been sent: need to live years’ hard labour by the revolutionary tribunal at .Moscow !’•'r counter-rcvolti i nary activities. She is only 20, and according to the ticocanl el the trial published in one of the Russian path rs lane leaks haidiy, more than a .schoolgirl. H r lathe; Imt Russia when site was

I hu she rctiised to at company him. ! hoik:,lug it to he 1.-er duty to remain in ; Rtt- xie 1-1 light the Bolshoi iks. She got i-ntplei i. tent in the oihec of the u-r:iiil" 1 Extraordinary Commission at Kharkov, and in tin’s way managed to gain t hinecessary papers for helping .Momuihists to go abroad. Her ical views were i uvea bed to 11t-* authorities by a letter which she wrote lo the Patriarch of Moscow and imprudently posted in t : e ordinary nay.

It was. of toiir’o, impounded by the--1 iijl.-lif'visi. fuobiiiilie.s, who found it ennliined .;ii ,appeal in the pati inreh not to permit the v.dii'ih! * f the Church to lie lnind 'd nv .• in tins, iiolsheviks ,becjtuHi' tin* ii ! : .•. iid-rd bv their sale would not I o fc>‘ i!*e relief of the starving, bin for t'e support of t'le Hnlshevisf ,(!«i rnmcnl. After tliis discovery she was arrested. Standing before the nooliuimini.v tribunal sbe iniule no attempt to defend lers! If. "I am n Monarchist,” she said. “I whs n member of the Kharl; .v Monarchist <irt£n•;i*• >it:trn and was arrest m yea.- on rh.-it account. I am mi Oiibodo'; Christian and consider it

UO(vm-h r V u<: >\[M l!iO confiscil-ti.-iu , r > huia-l! propm-iy. T'e young princess ire i\c l t’ e !<nie:u 'o! the court without a true: of emotio'i.

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T! e duunbii r, sun-in-lu.v. and son of Ai.' jo '-itriiri ai liasse attempted 1o murder a picture dealer named fiulius Alunz h.iv last night. The licensed are all between 2o and ail. Beautifully d.ro-sei], they drove ot> in a motor-car to a bouse in which Herr .Mima li\e<l by himself in a flat on the first floor, about (> p.m., and said they thought of buying some pictures. A couple of bom s later the caretaker sa \ them return, and a few minutes later she heard screams and the sound of a terrible stnunrh' in H’e studio above l:er room. She v.as by herself, lint with great emimge she rushed up the -i ds and run*: ill. 101 l of the flat. .Nobody ar.s . - red. but tie sound if tlie struggle loniinaed, and she rushed down and oat if tfie bouse cry ini'-, “They aie murdering our poor Herr Mutvt!” Police <juic-kly came and broke open the door of t l * flat. They found Herr A!unz'on the floor covered with blood, fie was in great agony, but be was.living, ami was quickly removetl to a hospital. It is hoped that bis life may be saved. The persons who bad tried to batter ‘he life oui of their victim with life■uvservers were ariested.

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Marshal Cluing Tso-lin, tl.e defeated mil dismissed pro-Japanese (lovernor(leneral of Manclmria. whose defeat in the field bus left Wn Pei-fu, the milijapanes.* Demoeralic leader of Central ' biini, in virtual control of China, lias ’ r.nvn off all authority of the Peking (lovermneut and proclaimed ids independence. Tlie following is the text of tile declaration be has made to the foreign Ministi'rs in Poking and to the loreiitn Consuls in Tientsin:— "I have received funn Hsu fsliib-

■hnn i, the President of China, a comimnicalii ti giving away the throe eastern provinces, the special area of lehel mil inner and Outer Mongolia. All these nr" not iccopiiised as territories i: the I'cpnblie of China. "I, in my special positive, cannot hut assume all the i csponsibdii i, s thereof ami do my utmir-l to prolecl the lives -snr! ii. n rties of a!i the friendly natins, celt ivatin;' fr'eiidly relationships

•\ ii.ll t■ dll. ' “All the important treaties which lave been made under the Mancbu regime and tin* llopublie will be fully ice gnis-d and ropm-led. The foreign Ministers, foreign consuls, and foreign icsdnitsw bo wish to conduct negoliations mi other matters can cinmmnicale c, it’: inv office at l.wanebow. I shall have closer commercial relationship than over before with the friendly nations in order to promote the happiness and prnspc! ity of the people.” The declaration has oau-cd the auit orit'e: to i-oncider the advisability of withdiawing temporarily the entire Kiii’ap *an pi rsntinel in t!*c 'i • iigshnn ova. sine- .1 icm v.i.l o! }' e fig!.ting im]o rils li c..e»ilistric's.