KEEPING GIRL IN BLACK.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1928, Page 3

KEEPING GIRL IN BLACK.

PARIS, .Tune 28. Suzanne Cliarnnux, n weeping form in black, was confronted in court yesterday with the workmen in her brother-') u-law’s 'diaries .Alestoiinofs establishment who. with her, had been witnesses of the murder of Gaston Tmphemc, the jewel-broker, bv Mestorino. To their allegations of her complicity in the crime she only replied : “I finite forget; I really do not know. Evidence was given of ■Cliarnnux having ordered a messenger-boy to buy nine yards of canvas, which was used to wrap up the body, and of having the office cleaned out with peroxide of hydrogen to remove the bloodstains Mestori no has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. ten YEARS AGO TO-DAY. LONDON, June 18. On June 18, 1918, ten years ago today, the great battle between the Allies and the Austrians still raged on the Piave. Diaz, the Italian commander was concentrating forces for tlie counter-attack which he had ordered for the following day. , 1 Tie found a most precious ally at tins critical moment in the Kivoi li.ue. Swollen bv the storms which had been raghm in'the Alps, it suddenly rose to a orcat height and swept down with its floods in irresistible force the trunks of trees and great bouldeis Ten of the fourteen Austrian bridges were swiftly carried away; and the I safety of the remaining tour "its

uncertain. - , The Italians directed the chief cffoits against the key position south of r Piave. on the Montelio. I hey kept the Austrians holding this plateau under a terrible fire. By nightfall eight fresh Italian infantry divisions were ready to

advance. The Austrians meantime had to can j out wlmt one of their commanders described as “an exhausting and ruinous struggle against hidden machine guns.” On this dav there was no serious figjiting on the Allied front in France. oFlier than a German demonstration •mainst Rheims "But,” says the ' e >- raan Crown Prince, with a considerable measure rlf truth, ""hen turn to the ample evidence in the AUiei war-literature and realise the exceedingly serious view taken by I’ocli, theie cannot be the slightest doubt that in those day of June 1918 the tate of the war liung by a liair.”