NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1928, Page 7

NEWS BY MAIL.

A PRINCE’S MILLIONS. CONSTANTINOPLE. October 24. Three mental specialists—-English, French, and Swiss respectively—have arrived here charged by the Egyptian Crown Council to report on tlio ben 10 of Prince Ahmed Scif-ed-Din, in connection with the Prince’s claim to recover his sequestrated properties in Egypt, valued at £16.000,0(H). The Turkish authorities object to the Prince’s examination by foreign specialists. and the Governor of Constantinople yesterday directed Prince Ahmed to apply for the Government’s authorisation. FAMILIES’ LOST HOMES. DRIVEN OUT HV CHINESE SOLDIERY. PEKING, October 24. The better-class inhabitants of the northern Chinese province of Chihli (which includes Peking and Tientsin) are sending delegates to Veil Hsi-shan. the Shansi general requesting his help in ameliorating conditions in the metropolitan area, as 500,000 Nationalist troops occupying the province are billeted on the inhabitants. On Sunday T examined the rfl'ea round the NankoW Pass and the Ming tombs, and found more .than two divisions of soldiers occupying the villages an using the houses, while the inliabtants were shifting for themselves out of doors. Yen Hsi-shan received a. telegram from Chiang Kai-shek, the President of the National Council of China, requesting his attendance at Nanking, hut replied that he hoped to go there when the situation was easier and was meanwhile sending a delegate. In Chinese circles it is believed that Yen is dubious of the advisability of visiting the seat otf the Nationalist Government owing to the instability of the political situation, and that, he is afraid to trust the “Christian” general, Feng Yti-hsiang. MURDERED BABY. PARIS, Oct. 30. The Eeuch press shows great disappointment at the sentence of 10 years’ penal servitude passed at the Toulouse Assizes on Count Pierre de Rayssnc for having thrown his 17-montlis-old illegitimate child into the Midi Canal. The jury’s verdict was murder without premeditation. Counsel for the defence, Mnitre de Moro Giafferi, in an appeal for mercy, urged that the Count was not a wanton criminal and that if he were sentenced to the extreme penalty of the law the chastisement would 'fall on his wife and little daughter. The sentence is much more severe than appears at first sight, as all terms of penal servitude exceeding seven years must be followed by an equal period of banishment in French Guiana. Thus de Rayssac will have to serve his full sentence ol 10 years as a convict on the Island of Saint Jean de .Maioni, in French Guiana. After that lie must work in the colony as a settler for 10 years and remain under police supervision.