NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4403, 10 June 1933, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of John Polichronopoulos, head of the Athens detective force, on a charge arising out of the attempted assassination of M. Venizelos. Other warrants are pending.

“King” Spada, the one-time notorious Corsican bandit who was arrested on May 28 at prayer was sentenced to two years and fined 1000 francs for being in illegal possession of firearms. He will be tried in November for alleged murders.

In reply to the 272 runs made by Somerset at Taunton the West Indies cricketers scored, 482 for six wickets. Headley played a great innings of 224 not out., Others to exceed the half-century were Merry 75 and Barrow 70.

Several of the Calcutta prisoners convicted of violent political crimes are continuing their hunger strike in the prison on Andaman Islands. No further details have occurred and their condition, in spite of the fact that they are being forcibly fed, is satisfactory.

The Makura took from Sydney a consignment of Australian live rabbits for a French importer at Tahiti. The animals and their families are to be liberated to help to level thick undergrowth.

In the Sydney Criminal Court on Wednesday Eric Craig, aged 26, was convicted on a charge of murdering Bessie O’Connor aged 16, in National Park on Decembr 14, and was sentenced to death. This was Craig’s third trial, two previous juries having disagreed.

The German Government has declared a general moratorium on all credits granted to Germany prior to

July 1, 1931, because of the banking crisis that month which caused Ger- * many’s present financial position. Transfers will be made as far as possible on the credits granted after that date.