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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1925, Page 3

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AN ABDUCT [ON CASE. DELHI. March 2fi

A preliminary hearing of the ease of -wumtaz Mustapa Begum formerly attached to the police of the Maharajah of Indore has commenced in Bombay.

Nine officers of the police and the State troops of Indore and also the Adjutant General, are charged with attempting to kidnap her and murdering her lover Bawla.

Mumtaz gave evidence that she was 22 years of age and was brought up as a singing girl. She went to Indore at the request of the Maharajah and was his mistress for several years. She accompanied him to England. alter which a daughter was horn and died. She left the Maharajah and lived at various places where she was constantly folowed hv his spies, who urged her to return.

Mumtaz recapitulated the details of attempts to kidnny her and murder Bawla.

A BRITISH FFACTION. LONDON. March 211. Owing to Mr Ramsay .MacDonald’s absence, due to a cold, lit. Hon. Mr. .1. R. dynes presided at the Labour Party’s private luncheon to Mr Collier, who emphasised that the inspiration of the Australian Labour Movement was derived from British Labour. He expressed the hope and belief that Labour would win in the coining Federal elections. ARMY DICAT 11 PENALTY, LONDON. March 20. The Inter-Depnrnui'iital Committee of the Army Air Force, investigating on the possibility of disciplinary amendments, reporls that It cannot recommend the abolition ol the death penalty for the most serious military offences on active service. Similarly it does not advise any serious reduction in the number of oflenres lor which the death sentence penalty may lie inflicted. Discussing the suggested snb-t Lotion of iiiiprisoiiuusit, the report sees: “The scrviie wit",esses ol all ranks, are agreed that tl is would not prove a sufficient deterient. It Si ivs:—“ Booking at Uu* conditions of modern warfare, or me lad that an offender finds them almost, beyond endurance, it is ban! to see bow nnv measure which would remove 1 bon to" safely with the cortuintv of an aiimcs',\ after ilie war. could be anything but attractive to him.” The eeininittee ''eporls against allowing soldiers to coni rant on. m duty Tn aiding the civii power in the event of strikers. A MINK DISASTER. .PARIS. March 20. There were eighty minors coming up in a. cage from the YYoi Iciibnoh mine, in the Moselle region, when the cage thev were in crashed down, a distance of one thousand feet. Thirty of the men have been raised from n pile of mangled l ollies. Four of them have sinie died and the rest of them are shockingly injured. There is little hope for the remainder. The accident was due to the breaking of a cage chain.

AX EDITOR KILLED. VIENNA. Miii-cli 20. Herr Hugo Bettauer. editor of “Dor Ma«'’ one <tf the most Irrilliant of A us- : Irian novelists, died from wounds in- 1 dieted 1 1 v an Austrian Fascist. .Rotli- 1 well, who fired six shots at Bettauer a : fortnight ami. Bettauer was detested ' In- the Conservative elements owing to 1 his Radiealist attitude and the nneon- 1 ventionality of his writings, and also I the fact that he was a Jew. lie was * bitterly denounced hv the Fascists as I the eneniv of the country. 1 i DELHI. March 2d. Deneral Rawlinson has been ojiera tod on for appendicitis. His condition is "rave and lie is reported In lie sinking. |,()ISD Cl'R/.ON’S HITTER DISAPDOINTMENT. (Received this day at 0 a.m.) s LONDON, March 20. , 'L’he Archbishop of York in conduct- ~ inn the funeral service at Kedlestone. t said that the late Lord Oiirzon hitter- ( , lv felt the disappointment of his hle’s t ambition, the Premiership, which was thwarted when Mr Baldwin succeeded the late -Mr Ronar Law, hut lie did "ot allow that' disiippoinLiiient to affect his devotion to Ids’country’s service on Ins v loyalty to his colleagues. ' PA If LIAM EXTAR Y VISITS. PRESS COMMENT. LONDON, March 2d. The newspapers comment on Mr Baldwin's pronouncement regarding I t the Parliamentarians’ Empire visits. ( The “Daily Telegraph’’ says: “U ( ■is essential that some legislators should net an understanding of the problems , which have to he faced by the Dorn.in- . i oll Legislators. We look forward to ( the time when there will he a eontm- ( nous coming and going of l.otli lailianientarians and businessmen.’ The “ Morning Post ” says: “There never was a period when the knowledge „„ the one hand,''of the opportunities furnished hv the Dominions, and. on the other hand, of the reservoir ol man power of England was more needed Whether the people at home and overseas will rise to met tins omcr- , treuev Which is as formidable m Ws way as a war emergency, remains to be soon.” LORD JELLICOK. LONDON. March A>. The Australian Press Association’s special correspondent at Plymouth sa. s that f.ord Jcllicoc arrived there aboard the Mooltan. The family are in excellent health, except Miss Prudeuec Jell ice?, who is still suffering Iron. • broken collarbone. through falling out of bed at Algeciras. Eovd Jellicoe refused to he u tuviewed. intimating that ho had im staicaienf. to make on any subjec t and lit declined to be drawn into am disc msion of the Battle or Jutland ami m recently published criticisms of ‘ tlc. remarking that lie had msi l . with the navy now. and was a px'-itt individual. , . i

"“ sko.l" whnt wore bis views re-mril-ine Singapore, h 0 was a *'"‘ | etU; '’< o j The interviewer sni^sted: <.» course, you approve ol u. the interests ol' New Zealand and Alls t'fonl Jelliooc laughingly shook bis head and dismissed the subject Ashed regarding the pron.sal < . floating dock. Lord dellicoe said < »• t was the first that he had heard ol suggestion. He said: “You eaun-U esnect me to talk of Hungs 1 know m.thu , about. I am glad to be home. lut ■ was sorrv to leave New Zealand 1. is a wonderful country, with -m-Mlen-pros poets for people who are prepa.e to work the land, but they „uis go on the laud, as they cannot expa - p'oyment in tlio towns. u . i JSi'S nf ,1... .schemes.

AN EXPF.IU.MF.NT. (Kece’vod this day at 8.30 a.nO PARIS. March *2..

Doctors are awaiting the rest'dt of . remarkable experiment on a girl of hve years in a desperate condition, stiff* iing from paralysis. As » last res ‘" they had engrafted upon her a gland taken from a criminal, Olive Head, mv mediately after he was guillotined. The operation was carried out hv a Ullo University Pr rt f?s«>r*

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