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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1931, Page 3

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FOR GOOD LUCK. GROOM’S LARGESSE TO POOR. LONDON, November 12.

To ensure good luck, 'Sahebzada Nawab Azam Jali is following tfie ancient Indian custom of. distributing largesse on his wedding journey. He is the son of the world’s richest man,- reputedly worth £100,000,000, who gave Britain £20,000,000 towards her war costs.

Sahebzada has, left 1 London for the Riviera, where he is shortly to marry Princess Dourishebar, daughter of a former cal’ph of Turkey. He wore an armlet of the Hyderabad colours, in wh'ch were tucked a number of coins, which, he is to throw out of the train window- to workers in the fields and to distribute to the poor at the railway stations.

i. TRAFFIC IN ALIENS. HUGE SMUGGLING GAINS. NEW YORK, November 12. Smuggling of foreigners on a- gigantic scale and, the subsequent blackmailing of successful aliens smuggled into the country is another problem with which the Government is now faced. The Government is already battling against organised racketeering on a large scale, and it was astounded when confronted with • reports of the alien smuggling' which is organised on a gigantic scale 1 , in which rings make over £20,000;000 a year and bring in 200,000 foreigners annually. Frequently aliens so smuggled, if they become successful, are blackmailed by the “racketeers” on pain of exposure.

Canada, Mexico, and Cuba are the leadings spots of transfer. The Windsor to Detroit route, it is reported, rs operated by a powerful combine, from Canada. Englishmen, Australians, and Irish Canadians are smuggled across on. .a wholesale scale, according to reports, by bribing Customs officials and guards and others. Those so introduced are treated as citzens of means.

GRIM SCARF MURDERS. INSANE FATHER THEORY. PARIS, November 12. Tim- most sensational of recent French crimes are the rnurdevs of the nine-year-old 'Roger iSivay, -son of a furrier, who has 'been found strangled by a scarf, and of his mother, cl seovered in a flat with her head battered with a pestle and a scarf bound round her neck also. The father and the eider son, Jean, have disappeared. A macabre incident in connection with the affair is that the father.-.was. seen seated in a caffi drinking beer with Jean when Roger’s body, passed on its way to the mortuary. The police ;fir,st discovered Roger on a Seine tow-path, near Paris'; 1 :

Most of the evidences, of identity had •bhln When the name had b«en ascertained, it was found that iSivay’s flat was locked. The police broke in and saw the mother’s body clothed in a torn nightdress; The bedclothes were drenched with blood, and there was evidence of a fierce struggle having taken place. The husband’s coat was found with the sleeves clotted with blood. It' has now been established that Sivay left the /flat oh November 3 with Jean and went to Verneuil, where Roger was staying with his grandmother. The father said he was going to Chartres on business, and that this was a chance of giving the hoys an outing. The police, in view of the disappearance of Sivav and Jean, are working on the theory that there have been two; and probably three, murders. They believe that Sivay suddenly became insane, especially in View of a friend’s statements that he was a, fiiode'r husband, and had a flourishing business, ■ although latterly he had been overworking.