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GENERAL SUMMARY. REDS IN FRANCE. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. PARIS, Nov. 3. Evidence of 889 condemnations to death by the Soviet, a secret wireless station and elaborate bogus passports and identity papers, have been discovered in a tiny villa at Sort-Rouville. The police seized half a ton of documents, including references underlined in red ink to the mysterious disappearance of General Koutepoff. More than 1000' suspects were rounded up and'l2o arrests were made.
RISING IN FORMOSA. •* TOKIO, Nov. 3. ' All military resources, including hand grenades, steel helmets and cannon, were used to-day in an effort to destroy aborigines’ camps in Formosa. The Japanese losses so far reported are: One officer and four men killed in addition to other casualties. The Government troops are being reinforced and this has aroused the hostility of tribes hitherto friendly to the Japanese. ZIONISTS’ PROTEST. NEW YORK, Novi 2. A meeting of 40,000 persons under the auspices of the Zionist Organisation of America was held in (Madison Square Garden in celebration, of the 13Hi. anniversary of the Balfour declaration. Those present protested against the recent’British White Paper on Palestine, which the chairman, Professor Frankfurter, called less a statement of the British Government’s policy than a revelation of the deeply-rooted prejudices of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Passfield.
SUPPOSED SUICIDE. SYDNEY, Nov. 3. The dead body of Mr. Frank Dillon Bell, aged 70, a woolbroker, wellknown as a member of a Sydney wool firm, was discovered on the foreshore at Mosrnan. There was a bullet wound in one temple and a revolver lay near the body. Mr. Bell had been missing for nearly a week. Recently he had been disturbed by the political outlook, which had preyed on his mind.
BLAZE AT SINGAPORE. SINGAPORE, Nov. 2. A fire in a rubber factory at Singapore caused damage estimated at £OO,OOO.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18167, 4 November 1930, Page 7
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