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RAILWAY TRAGEDY MR, DAVID HARVEY
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Constantinople, Yesterday.. Four persons were killed and 11 seriously injured near Adabazar, in Anatolia, at night time when a huge buolder, hurtled from the moun- tainside, crashed upon a passing train.
The engine was knocked into amithereens and several coaches
were capsized.-Router.
SUDDEN DEATH OCCURS
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AN OLD RESIDENT
REGENCY BILL?
HOME GOVERNMENT CON- SIDERING CONTINGENCY
A CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE
London, Yesterday.
Many will regret to learn of the
It is understood that the Cabinet death at his residence, Armand- buildings, Kowloon, early yesterday, is consulting its legal advisers re- of Mr. David Harvey, who had been garding the constitutional Issue a resident of the Colony since raised by the forthcoming Dissolu- August 20, 1896.,
tion of Parliament in case His
Mr. Harvey first came out on a Majosty the King has not suff- new vessel constructed in Dundee ciently recovered to undertake the for the Straits Steamship Co., and heavy duties connected" with the Inter joined Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- Dissolution and the possible sub- son and Co., Ltd. Then he went sequent developments.
back to sea on one of the ships of It is pointed out that the pre- the Scottish Oriental Steamship sent Council of State is not em- Co, and afterward was connected, powered to dissolve Parliament.
NAVAL MOVEMENTS respectively, with the engineering It is believed that the Govern-
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HM's troopship "Somerset- shire," which is to carry away from Hong Kong the 1st Battalion the Queen's Royal Regiment is now expected to leave Singapore on March 14 for Hong Kong.
H.M.S. "Kent," the flagship of the China Station, is to leave for Shanghai to-morrow and will prob- ably leave there on March 24 to return to Hong Kong..
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The two sloops, 11.M.S. "Fox- glove" and "Bluebell" are to be re- lieved on
the China Station by H.M.S. "Sandwich" and "Bridg water." The two latter are to leave England on April 8 and the two old ships leave Hong Kong at the end of this month so that all four will meet at Aden on May 30.
H.M.S. "Concord," returning Home with drafts from China, ar rived at Portsmouth yesterday,
SHANTUNG- WAR
HOW IT AFFECTS OTHER ISSUES
firms of Messrs. Fenwick and Co,ment la considering the contin
gency of promoting a Regency Bill.
FINE TO CLOUDY
This morning's report issued by the Royal Observatory stated:-
The antleyclone covera 8.E. Mongolia and China.
Fresh monsoon may be ex- pected along the S.E. coast of China and over the China Sea.
Forecast:---N.E. winds, fresh;. fine to cloudy.
and with Messrs. A. G. Gerdon and Co. IIis last business connection here was with the United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Ltd., with which he stayed 26 years; at the time of Superintendant his death he was Harbour Engineer.
The opinion is hardening that the General Election will be ar- ranged for the end of May.-Reu- ter.
DUTCH ART
ATTRACTS 220,000 VISITORS TO BURLINGTON HOUSE
EXHIBITION NOW CLOSED
London, Saturday. The exhibition of Dutch art, which in the last few weeks has attracted 220,000 visitors to Eur- lington House, London, closed yes- terday,
Sixty per cent. of the exhibits from English collections, came while Dutch authorities lent many unique and priceless works from galleries in Rotterdam, the Hague and Amsterdam.
Mr. Harvey was a keen bowler, being one of the mainstays of the
These were escorted by a warship Kowloon Bowling Green Club. He also held the rank of Sergeant in to the mouth of the Thames and, in the Hong Kong Volunteer Reserves, a few days a warship will return was connected with the Kowloon to ensure their safe arrival in Hol- Football Club, a Past Master of land.
Many beautiful works were also East Scotia Lodge, No. 923, and a
lent by collectors in the United member of St. Andrew's Society.
States and elsewhere. — British and Death occurred suddenly peacefully at the age of 54. The Wireless Service. sympathy of their many friends will go out to Mrs. Harvey and her TROTSKY IN TURKEY son, Mr. David Harvey, jun, in their bereavement, also to the late Mr. Harwy's aged parents in Scotland.
Chefoo, Yesterday, Although Chang Tsung-chang's presence at Dairen during the past week is confirmed, there is no truth in the report that his armies have jbeen routed, as no fighting has The funeral takes place this hitherto taken place. A represen-afternoon, passing the Monument tative of Chang Tsung-chang here at 5 o'clock.
is endeavouring to persuade Gen-
NO LONGER DETAINED IN SOVIET CONSULATE
STILL IN CONSTANTINOPLE
Constantinople, Yesterday. Trotsky, his wife and son will be leave the Soviet Con- sulate, where they have been living, for the Hotel Pera.
eral Liu Chen-nien to throw in his STRANGE WAR STORY allowed to
lot with the ex-tuchun, but Liu Chen-nien refuses to expose His hand, maintaining his entrench- ments and placing land mines and barbed wire on his front line be tween Kangyu and Teangklach- wang.
TEN YEARS”. DISGUISE OF FRENCH DESERTER
Trotsky has undertaken to main- tain complete reserve and will not organise demonstrations.-Reuter.
CHINA & JAPAN
NANKING OFFICIALS
DENIAL
Paria, Jan. 19. Madame Grappe has been ac quitted, though she admitted that Alliance With Hankow? she fatally shot her husband. She It is considered that Chang told a remarkable story in Court. Tsung-chang's organisation and Grappe served in the trenches early supply of arme and munitions is in the war, and when on leave in poor, hence his endeavour to buy Paris lacked the courage to return lover Liu Chen-nien. The latter's to his regiment. She helped him In reference to the belief in subordinates, former followers of to disguise himself, as a woman, official circles in Tokyo that be- Chang. fear displacement if Nan- and they thus spent ten years, jcause of the irruption of Chang king's appointees take over the mostly in Spain. Grappe letting Tsung-chang, and also desiring to civil and military posts, hence they his hair grow and cultivating a arrange a satisfactory settlement are sympathetic with Chang, contralto volca. They only return- with Japan, prior to opening the
Nanking. Yesterday.
Liu Chen-nien is reported to cd to France after an amnesty in third national Kuomintang con-
Grappe resuming have sent a representative to Tien- 1924,
men's ference at Nanking on March 15, He lived a life of de- the attitude of the National Govern- tain to verify Chang Tsung-chang's clothes. claim of a secret alliance with bauchery while she earned a liv-ment has weakened and that it is General Li Tsung-jen of Hankow, ing in a factory. Recently, being now prepared to make concessions and is awaiting a report before terrified by his violent drunken in connection with the settlement taking further action.
outbreak, she snatched up a re of the Tainan incident in order to expedite the withdrawal of Japan- Many refugees have arrived from volver and shot him. Tsangkiachwang owing to the dan-
was afraid eno
from troopa
Shantung, "I was mad but I ger of the land mines and warlike when I shot him," she said, "Even Reuter is informed that "officials preparations which indicate that now I love him, as all women did. [of the National Government empha. fighting is probable in the near He always seemed strangely to tically deny that Chinese domestic
fascinate women."
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politics are a factor in settling the Shantung question with Japan or other pending issues."-Reuter.
A CHEFOO0 PACTI
. Chefoo, Saturday. It le rumoured that an arrange- ment is being made between Chang Toung-chang and General Liu Chen-nien, by which Liu Chen-ulen will maintain control over Chefoo as a subordinate of Chang Tsung- chang, and will receive an indemn ity of $10,000, but will surrender two-thirds of his effectives and holst the old Chinese flag-British Naval Wireless.
EXTRALITY
Shanghai, Yesterday. Semi-official reports from Tokyo state that the United States is considering proposing a conference of the Powers concerned to consider the advisablity of abolishing extra- territoriality In China, Japan is reported to be in fall accord with theropos
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