A FAVOURED NATION

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 112, 17 November 1928, Page 10

A FAVOURED NATION

TREATY WITH GERMANS MADE BY SOUTH AFRICA ; Australian Press Association. (Received 17th November, 2 p.m.)' CAPETOWN, 16th November. . I The Government has yielded to a rej quest to publish the text of the most-favoured-nation treaty made with Germany, An important qualification provides that in respect to goods now specifically enumerated in South African legislation, that the Germ.n Reich may - now claim minimum rates or rebatos which aro at present granted to the products of Britain and tho Dominions, consequently any privileges granted to the sister Dominions in the future must extend to Germany. The favoured-nation' clanso excludes favours being given by adpoining territories to a third State by virtue of the Customs Union or a consequent agreement for the avoidance of doublo taxation and mutual protection of tho revenue. MURDER OF THE KIRBYS CONLIN SENTENCED TO DEATH . Australian Pres3 Association—United Serrlct. (Received 17th November, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 16th November. William C'onlin, aged 22, has been sentenced to death for the murder of Thomas and Mrs. Kirby. Following the discovery on 22nd September of the shnllowly-buried bodies of an elderly couple, Thomas and Mrs. Kirby, of Old Thornaby Green, the police arrested Conlin, an ex-soldier, and a grandson of the murdered woman by her first marriage. The police exhumed the bodies. Kirby had been wounded in the head, and was still bleeding, whilo his wife had apparently been strangled. Her boot was discovered in an adjacent ditch. The woman victim was formerly a widow and married Kirby in 1925. He was a market trader, and she was a prosperous tripe dresser, keenly inter-, ested in public affairs. The police forced an entry to Kirby's locked house, and ascertained that the couple had been murdered there and then conveyed three miles to the burial place, apparently in a car which was garaged oa the premises.