Winnipeg, Sept. 22.
Mr. John Macray, the Canadian lawyer and prominent and respected figure in Canadian church life. has been sentenced to seven years penal servitude on each of the two charges made against him. He pleaded guilty to both, one of having stolen $900,000 from the trust funds of the University of Manitoba and a second of a theft of $60,000 from his former law partner.
Mr. Macray was also alleged to have been involved in the embezzlement of $860,000 from the funds of the Anglican church, but the authorities have declared that they will not prosecute him. Mr. Macray is suffering from cancer and is not expected to live for more than a few months.—Reuter.
Aachen, Sept. 25.
Another serious battle was waged last night between smugglers and customs patrols resulting in the death of three smugglers near a little village on the Dutch-German frontier, when a band of about 80 smugglers, carrying mostly coffee, cigarettes and cocoa, was held up in its march into Germany and, after exchanging shots for nearly two hours, was finally repulsed.
_Two smugglers were killed outright, while a third one died a few hours later in a hospital. Goods amounting to about 10,000 marks were discovered hidden in underbrush and in eaves.
In the report issued by the captain of the gendarmerie this morning, it was disclosed that a former member of the smuggler-gang, who felt himself having been "double-crossed" by his colleagues, betrayed the contemplated march across the border to the police. As, on the Seer hand, the captain suspected a Budapest, Sept, 24.—Two eNn-} latter was kept under anpervikion double-crossing from this man, th gineers met, their death to-day as a result of their experiments with a motor car in the suburbs. The car was fitted with propellers at the rear intended to enable the machine to clear obstacles by rising and remaining in the air. While the two men were making final tests an explosion occurred which blew them' to pieces and wrecked the car. while, nevertheless all preparations for a successful combat were made.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
The exports of butter of the chief butter exporting countries, of Europe amounted in 1931, according to sta-fistics just published, were: Denmark 171,600 tons; Netherlands 33,000; Sweden 19,600: Lithuania 19,600; and Finland 17,400 tons.
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