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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930.
MR. C. EARNSHAW.
SUDDEN DEATH · IN HOSPITAL.
A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE.
We regret to report the death
of Mr. Claude Earnshaw, mana-
MINISTER'S.
ROMANCE.
Sir E.. Ovey Married to French Widow.
CEREMONY IN PARIS.
DROUGHT RELIEF.
FINANCIAL PROGRAMME TO BE
MAPPED OUT, ·
BANKERS TO CONFER.
Washington, Yesterday.
A meeting of the banking ro- presentatives on the State Relief
ger. of the Palace Hotel, Kowloon,
Paris. Yesterday. which occurred very suddenly in Sir Esmond Ovey, K.C.M.G., Committees has been called for the Kowloon Hospital yesterday. [British Ambassador to Moscow, Tuesday to map out a definite fin- Mr. Earnshaw had complained of was married to-day to Madame ancial programme for drought re- feeling unwell in the morning, Barrios, a lady of French birth, lief work.
and entered the hospital, but and the widow of Dr. Benjamin Mr. Hyde, Secretary of Agricul- passed away in the evening. Barrios, K.B.E., a Mexican diplo-ture and head of President A native of Kent, Mr. Earn-mat and Attache to the Mexican Hoover's National Drought Re- shaw, together with his brother, Legation in London in 1908.-lief Committee, stated that Reginald, came to Hang Kong in Reuter.
$800,000 of the original $6,000,-
1919 to join the Police... Force. [Sir Esmond 'Ovey was born in'000 fund were available for seed Later, both left the Force, and July, 1879, the son of the late loans in Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Claude was for some time on the Richard Ovey, of Oxfordshire, Missouri, and Montana.
and Mrs. Ovey, Streatly-on- outside staff of the Sunday Herald., Thames Educated at Eton Col
The Relief Committee includes
He had been connected with the lege and abroad, he was appointed Mr. Legge, of the Federal Farm Palace Hotel for about six years. an Attache in 1902, and sent to Board, Mr. Young, of the Federal Mr. Earnshaw, for some time Tangier in 1904, but did not pro- Reserve Board, Mr. J. B. Payne, after his arrival, was a prominent being despatched to Stockholm
ceed there immediately, first Chairman of the American Red local athlete, being an Interport in 1905 he was made a Third Cross, and Mr. Ogden Mills, oarsman, and a playing member Secretary and was transferred to Under-Secretary of the Treasury. of the Kowloon Cricket Club. Paris in 1906, He was created-Reuter's American Service.
The funeral will pass the Monument this evening at o'clock.
Second Secretary in 1908-15, and also served in Florida, Cuba, and 6Jamaica, whilst from 1925-29 he was H.B.M. Minister to Mexico. It will be recalled that Mr. In 1909 he was married to Blanche! Reggie Earnshaw, the other bro-Willis, daughter of the late Rear- ther, met his death in tragic cir-Admiral W. H. Emory, U.S. Navy.
Before her cumstances when attempting a
first marriage, parachute descent from a 'plane Madame Barrios was known as piloted by Mr. Harry Abbott over Mdile. Vignat de Guerola.] Kowloon Bay in 1925.
FORGED NOTES.
CHINESE CHARGED WITH POSSESSION.
A. Chinese appeared before Mr. H. R. Butters at the Centra Magistracy this morning charged with the possession of 22 forged. Straits Settlements $1 notes, and
ASTRONOMER DEAD.
PROFESSOR TURNER OF
OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
ASSISTANT AT GREENWICH,
Stockholm, Yesterday. " Dr. Herbert Hall Turner, F.R.S.,
one forged $10 Hong Kong, and D.Sc., Professor of Astronomy at Shanghai Bank note. The arrest Oxford University since 1893, died was effected in Graham Street on here to-day. He was 69 years of August 10.
age.-Reuter.
Accused was represented by Mr. T. G. Bennett, and after the hearing
[Dr. Turner was Savillan Pro
of the formal charge, a remand was fensor of Astronomy at Oxford granted until Tuesdy next, bail and a former President of the being fixed at $5,000.
Royal Astronomical Society. Edu- cated at Clifton and Trinity Col- lege, Cambridge, he was one of
DEATH BY OPIUM.
A young girl named Lai Chu-ha, aged 19 years, died in the Govern ment Civil Hospital last night from the effects of opium polsoning, -believed to be self-administered.
She was discovered in a cubicle on the second floor of 52, Catchick Road, by her mother, and was at once taken away, but died about two hours after admission.
C.E. RAILWAY.
CHINA INVITES AMERICAN CAPITAL.
TO PAY RUSSIANS.
Berlin, Yesterday.
A group of American financiers, as well as representatives of the Soviet Government and of the Russo-Asiatic Bank, are regotiat- Ing regarding the future of the Chinese Eastern Railway. -
It is reported here that the con- flict between the Manchurian and Soviet Governments regarding the Russian railway concession has not yet been settled. The Chinese are obviously unable to raise from their own resources the capital to Pay the Russians the sums invest- ed in the railway, when the Rus- sinn lease expires in 1933, there fore they have invited American capital to come to the rescue- Reuter..
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MAURETANIA CROSSES IN FIVE DAYS.
AVERAGE OF 25 KNOTS.
Rugby, Yesterday.
the General Secretaries of the British Association from 1913-22, and President of the Seismology Seation of the International Geo- physical Union, Rome, in 1922, For many years he was Chief As. The 8.8. Mauretania, which arriv-. afstart at the Royal Observatory, ed at Plymouth yesterday, made her Greenwich, and published a num-quickest passage this year, taking ber of solentific works, mostly only 24 minutes over five days. dealing with astronomy. He Her average speed had been 25.72 leaves a widow and one daughter.] knota-British Wireless Service.
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