The Archive · 1925

DUTCH NAVAL CRUISE IN 'THE BALTIC

The Hague, Mar. 29.

The Dutch Government intends to send the armoured cruisers Marten, Harpertz, Tromp and Jacob var' Heemskerck, two torpedo-boats and two submarines for a cruise in the Baltic this summer. They will visit Copenhagen, Stockholm, Riga, Reval and Helsingfors.

Dutch sea-planes will also go to Copenhagen.—Reuter.

A NEW IRISH PROBLEM COUNTERFEITERS IN CANADA

ing numerous' Irishmen imprisoned The first step in a test case affect- 'The mounted police _yvsterzay carried out one of the biggest raids English gaols was taken in the Jon counterfeiters on record. They Bench Division to-day, Sir arrested seven men and seized Henry Slesser applying for a' writ counterfeit notes representing $1 habeas corpus in connexion 1000, and uncompleted notes repzea man named Sagtire, who wat sentenced to four years" penal ser-senting $500,000—Reuter's Amertitude at Belfast in 1923 and is now incarcerated at Maidstone.

The justice of the conviction was not questioned, but the issue was raised as to whether a person con-viered in Ireland legally. could prisoned in England.

The writ was granted, and will bs argued the beginning of the nex:

Reuter,

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